This week my garden has been overflowing with flowers, so I brought some in to share with the class. I set up a center with a few simple tools – coloured pencils, and white paper. I set the vase of flowers on the table and let the students experiment with it. The results were quite …
We have been discussing with the students what makes them special. We have started off by reading the book Only One You by Linda Kraus. We then put out some loose parts at a center and some circle cork trivets to let them create their own faces. What we included: Cork trivets Place-mats Yarn in …
Our class put together an art project based on the weather. We did a piece of artwork for each of these weather types: rain, wind, sun and thunderstorm. We named our artwork as a class, and wrote out how we did piece of art step by step: They were proud of themselves and we had …
With all of the great weather that came our way, the students have been excited to learn about flowers. We set up an invitation to create around this interest (I got the idea from here.) What I included: Water bottles Purple paint Strips of green paper Scissors Glue Picture of hydrangeas Example of hydrangea art …
The students in our class have continued to show an interest in spring and the changes that are occurring with the weather. This week was also Earth Day and we had many discussions about how we can make our earth happy, and what we can do to help the environment. This invitation to create touched …
A classroom loom is a fun and engaging addition to your kindergarten classroom. This DIY version is an easy way to make one for your students. I have wanted to make a classroom loom for our students for some time now. Drawing inspiration from a post from Buggy and Buddy,I was able to put one …
We read this great book with the class, and they enjoyed it so much that I played off of it and made a super simple art activity to accompany it. The three characters in Scribble are a circle, triangle and rectangle that get turned into different objects with the help of Scribble. Here is the …
