5th grade teacherI've made the roses out of Hershey kisses and cellophane - my fifth graders do pretty well with it. On 4/23/09, kim wrote: > looking for mother's day gift ideas for kids to make
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Bill's Space has that little extra, that makes it a place for one to chill out while searching for something a little different to the norm. It is rapidly becoming a favourite resource in the U.K.
On 5/07/09, Bill Grant wrote: > Bill's Space was initially set up to promote the cause of > good lettering, with free downloadable worksheets and > video demonstrations of alphabets written with double > pencil. It has since evolved as a site of many facets that > teachers visit for inspiration, to download one page or > many for the class, of any age group, to add colour or > decoration, to cut up and stick together again as an aid > to learning the alphabet ,or of course, writing practice. > > Bill's Space has that little extra, that makes it a place > for one to chill out while searching for something a > little different to the norm. It is rapidly becoming a > favourite resource in the U.K. >
Help! I teach art to 300 kindergartners and want to make tshirts with them for field day, but have no idea how to do it without a huge mess. I really respect what you do and know you probably have experience with projects like this.
I just made a project with kindergartners using sta...See MoreOn 5/08/09, Kinder wrote: > Help! I teach art to 300 kindergartners and want to make > tshirts with them for field day, but have no idea how to > do it without a huge mess. I really respect what you do > and know you probably have experience with projects like > this. >
I just made a project with kindergartners using stamps on onsies with fabric paint. The were very easy to use, I demonstrated the process and then let them go. We used small sponge brushes to dab the paint onto the foam stamp and then the kids stamped the shirt. They did want to cover the entire shirt with stamps, just a heads up, so you may want to limit the number of stamps they can use. Also, having enough stamps that there are at least two for each student is helpful as they want to use many different colors.
we have lots of materials: markers, construction paper, color pencils, crayons, lanyard, popsicle sticks, but I could only come up with oh so many lessons where the kids use these materials.
since this is a "summer camp" the kids don't want to do any art. they prefer chatting and gossipping even though i've set up some paints and paper for them to paint with.
i don't think we'll be able to get any more materials. any suggestions as to how to keep them interested? (some kids just love art. the others don't care because it's just a free summer program for them)
we're also going to work on an actual tile mural, but most of them are not interested in participating in this project.
I was thinking a contest too. Getting the "leaders" excited about a project could help, as well as making sure you have enough variety so that each child can feel good about their creation. Some have been told that they can't draw, but perhaps they could make beads out of paper.