Welcome to Summer Fun 101 here at The Classroom Creative. We are kicking off thematic weeks for you all to fill your summer schools, homeschools, and camps with plenty of creativity and learning ideas. Let’s kick off the summer months with PIRATE WEEK! I’m all about crafting on the cheap. Years of teaching in underfunded […]
100+ Holiday and Seasonal Crafts, Activities, and Ideas for Kids
The school year is coming to a close, and soon enough, most of us will fall into a summer phase of suntanning and of course, planning for next school year. We have been hard at work here at The Classroom Creative for the past two years, and this round-up of ideas is ALL of our […]
Textured Flower Rubbings with Kids
My son thrives on art activities. To introduce the element of art known as texture, I had him created crayon rubbings. Texture refers to the way something feels. Not everything that you make needs to be created with tactile texture. Visual texture, or the illusion of texture can easily be done with different surfaces. We […]
Pirate Class Memory Books: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade!
The end of the school year is here! Like many teachers in the BTPT era (that’s BEFORE Teachers Pay Teachers)- I used to spend painstaking and insane amounts of time making memory books for my classes. It involved scrapbooking supplies and stickers…and what can I say? I was a rookie teacher with a ton of […]
End of the Year Classroom Organizing Tip: Keeping a Happy File
When I was teaching first grade many moons ago, my room mom mentioned something to me that has never left my file cabinet since: a happy file. From my years teaching and tutoring, I’ve saved some of those handwritten cards and notes from former students. When I’m having one of those terrible, no good, very […]