Archive for the 'Arts and Crafts' Category

Dec

Halloween 2011

So it’s almost Christmas. Just a small detail. I was going back over some older posts and realized I never put up the Halloween pictures. I don’t have too many because I was too busy manning the craft zone. We made door knockers. I took a template and added clip art. As the kids were coloring, I was laminating and cutting. It was a crazy day. Not too many kids dressed up this year.

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May

Wordle~!

Wordle is pretty cool. You can put your blog URL in and it spit out pretty stuff like this. What I don’t like is that it’s all in a stupid java applet and you can just link to the image. I can’t get Java and Linux to place nice, or I’d just take a screen cap. But most of you can just click on the little picture to see it. It’s fun to play with.

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Dec

Snowman Sock Puppet

Sorry folks, life has been hectic.

It’s December, thus the snow on the blog and the snowman puppets. I post this only because I feel so proud of Spring Class. OK, I really feel proud of myself. When I started in July, one of my first art classes with Spring was the snail sock puppet. It left me in tears and questioning my ability to teach at MapleSquare. I swear, they looked liked lumpy socks with eyes. Not so with the snowmen. Granted, I’ve learned a thing or two over the last few months (like always make a sample so you know how to do it).

So I proudly present Spring Class and their sock snowmen.

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Oct

Apple Print Shirts

Last week’s minitheme for Summer Class was apples. We looked at the parts of the apple in science. They learned about Johnny Appleseed in social studies. They made puffy apple pancakes in cooking. And finally, we made apple print tee-shirts in arts & crafts. I had a lot of fun with this one. The kids enjoyed it too. It’s one of those crafts that is super easy, but super stunning when done. Some fabric paint and fabric markers and a few apples later, we had awesome shirts. I hope they’ll wear them to school.

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Sep

Castle From a Box

Today, in arts & crafts, Winter Class made a castle from a copy paper box. I have to admit, I had a lot of fun doing it. I roughly followed the directions over at Enchanted Learning. What would I do without the internet?

It did take a full two periods, so we missed library time. The important part is the kids had fun and were really proud of what they created.

Enjoy the little ones!

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Sep

Fall Photo Frame

This was last week’s craft for Summer Class. The overriding theme for the month is Thanksgiving. This year, Chuseok, the Korean thanksgiving celebration, is in September. Last week’s minitheme for Summer Class was “I’m thankful for my family”. I had all the students bring in a picture of their families and we made picture frame. I got the idea from two different sites. The foam board frame idea came from Enchanted Learning. The mosaic idea came from Kaboose.

Enjoy the pics. I think the frames the kids did came out fabulous.

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Aug

Airplane From a Box

It’s amazing what you can find on the internet. First let me say, this wasn’t my idea. Second, let me say, it turned out quite good.

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m not artistically or creatively inclined in the least. I had to drop the art class I decided to take in high school because I was flunking it. No, not getting a C flunking, but actually getting an F flunking.

So rather than have the kids bring in a box, my boss decides we should use the giganitc box we have in our storeroom. After work on that Tuesday, I stayed late to paint the entire box white along with random other pieces of cardboard for the wings and tail.

On Wednesday I dragged the box upstairs (yay for elevators!) and got all sorts of questions from the kids. It’s a good thing we had library time right after arts & crafts because we certainly needed the time.

I’ll leave the blow by blow description of how to make this thing to the folk at the Family Fun website. I’ll leave you with the pictures, including a bonus one with my face in it.