Believe it or not, Mother’s Day crafts are not easy to find on the web! Maybe it’s because all of us mothers are the ones doing the crafting most of the time. Regardless, this flower pot pen craft is perfect for the mom without a green thumb or for moms like me who are always […]
Paper Mache Dragonfly Craft for Kids
“This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Scott Brand, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #Scottvalue http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV” As an art teacher, paper mache was always a favorite medium of mine to introduce to students. Using common household items such as Scott Tissue, we created […]
Easter Egg Suncatchers Craft for Kids
For April, Earth Day, and Easter I decided to create upcycled Easter egg suncatchers. All you need is a few items and lots of sun. I love things that sparkle when the sun shines through them. Plus they look cute hanging in your window when the relatives come over for Easter! thin cardboard boxes gold spray […]
Upcycled Sunflower Craft
Sunflowers are popular flowers to plant in classroom settings to kick off plant units. I know my second graders adored planting their sunflower seeds in mini-clay pots. I thought this sunflower craft idea, using packing peanuts and simple materials, would be a great finishing project for all your plant units! Reusing or “upcycling” as […]
Easter Bunny Paw Prints: Free Printable
To make the Easter bunny feel genuine and seem like he really did stop by our house, I drew up free printable rabbit feet. These rabbit paw prints can be used in more than one way. Besides using them to trail away from your child’s Easter basket use them to start an Easter egg scavenger […]
Weather Words Interactive Anchor Chart
Weather units are a critical part of a primary grade classroom’s science curriculum. Anchor charts are used universally in homeschools and classrooms, but we here at The Classroom Creative think that these classroom must-haves need a twist: they should be interactive. By making anchor charts interactive, students manipulate the words as opposed to static anchor […]
Free Spring Haiku Lesson and Template
April is National Poetry Month! So, get your classrooms and homeschools fired up about poetry with haikus (which I consider a “gateway” poem). Haikus, unlike many forms of poetry, are simple in structure and form, and are easy for kids to adapt with limited language. My first and second graders really enjoyed writing their haikus […]
Easter Egg Sight Word Hunt with Free Printable
With Easter quickly approaching, we created a fun and of course, educational sight word game for your homeschools and classrooms: an Easter Egg Sight Word Hunt! Using the printable below, simply fill your easter eggs with sight words, and send the students off to hunt for them. This is a perfect activity for this time […]
Textured Goose Art Project for Kids
Spring brings to sight many baby animals. Fuzzy ducklings and ruffled goslings to name a few. These wonderfully textured creatures can come alive in art using a few easy techniques. Today’s textured goose craft is created by using paper. Flat pieces of paper can become three-dimensional simply by cutting, ripping, folding, scrunching or curling the […]
Caterpillar Paper Plate Craft
The life cycle of the butterfly is a very popular insect unit among the primary grades. This caterpillar paper plate inspired craft would complement such a unit. We read my daughter’s favorite spring book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar for inspiration. Bring the life cycle of the butterfly alive by starting with this caterpillar paper plate craft. I […]
