Celebrating the Teacher Appreciation Week with a new lesson and a SALE May 3rd and 4th on Teachers Pay Teachers.  Animal Weaving Project ..read more

  This was a really fun collaboration with Actívia! Be sure to click on this link for steps to making your own FaceVase as well as a video.  ..read more

I'm really excited to share this lesson that I did with my students last SPRING and will welcome them into the school this FALL!! This is a 3D bulletin board. It is a collaborative that my students participated in the last few weeks of school. I'm selling this on Teacher pay Teachers... let me explain more (watch this video)!  To celebrate this lesson on my Teachers pay Teachers store... I'm throwing a sale for the start of school. I'm offering 15% off many of my lessons August 3rd and 4th but if you use the promo code BTS21 you can get an additional 5% off all items.  I'm e ..read more

I was inspired by Tracy Boberg Nichols who has a IG account called... @tracynicholsartclass. She did a pop-up garden with her students for Mother's Day 2021. I had to do it with my students as well. I have asked Tracy if she would mind if I shared the video I made off from her inspiration with others and she is happy to share!! So here is the video I created with my students.  Here are the lessons I learned from teaching this pop-up garden 10 times to different sections.  1) At first I asked students to create flowers on a half of sheet of paper. The problem was some flow ..read more

A great lesson for beginning Artist. I was inspired by a post I saw on Instagram by Alison Gerke (@ghouseart) showing some very sweet frogs by her Kindergarten. That sparked this lesson for me... Day 1: Students practiced drawing frogs. First on whiteboards and then on their watercolor paper. It's important to have a high quality paper for this lesson... Watercolor paper or Mixed Medium paper works best. I have a FREE step-by-step resource page on my TPT page. Day 2: Students first colored their background with crayons.  This included the sky, water, and lily pad. We tal ..read more

My distance learning kindergarten students rocked Earth Day Mosaic projects!! Last year when we went into lock down students where in the middle of doing an Earth Day project. I was unable to get the projects back to the kids from last year so instead of throwing out the really cool looking paper, I used the die-cut to make the circles, I had some plates from a project I did years ago, some paper mosaic shapes as left overs from a previous project as well... it was a great combination to send home as a perfect little pack for these kindergarten students.  Here is the videos that I ..read more

I will be absent for the next couple of days so I thought this was a great time to offer a fun lesson focused on the contemporary Artist EttaVee. The top video I will be sharing with my older students, 3-5 and the younger kids will be working on the Seesaw digital version in the second video.    ..read more

My sister pulled out a little box of magnets the last time I visited. She showed me a great aunt on her husbands side gave her little magnets sewed on plastic canvas for each holiday. She explained that when she received them she didn't appreciate it the same way she does now... that she is older... and wiser. I thought I would send her a pick-me-up and started making some magnets to add to her collection featuring some of our favorite shows. For starts... $chitts Creek!  Check out the video for full instructions. Drawings below are my attempt at a pattern. Maybe you can make one for so ..read more

Need a quick little lesson before a holiday. Here ya go. This will require a iPad or Chromebook and access to Google Draw.  Students will learn... How to create an object using simple shapes. How to use Google Draw tools like; Shapes, Polylines, and Curve Lines. How to share the drawing.  ..read more

Pulling out a lesson from long ago. Here is my original post. This year I chose to use this lesson to celebrate the importance of corn to the American Indigenous People. Plus, Kindergarten continued to practice cutting, and learned 3 ways to glue... glue stick, liquid glue, and glue sponge. Fun and successful lesson for the kids!  Scroll through the slide show above.  ..read more