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Invitation to Create: Make A Monster. Open ended, creative, quick and easy kids paper Halloween craft. Great for color and shape recognition. Perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary.

A great visual and center activity for understanding place value. This one is SO easy to make, and SO effective!

The Best Websites for Teaching Math: The top math education sites I can't live without - tools for graphing, inquiry lessons, virtual manipulatives, and more!

www.creativemeinspiredyou.com These popsicle stick ornaments are so very easy to create. A few markers and other bits and the kids will have hours of fun creating these characters. Christmas, ornaments, Christmas ornaments, kids, kids crafts, easy, easy kids crafts, christmas crafts, crafting, diy, handmade, homemade, easy crafts, markers, fun,

As we all know, students already get plenty of tests, so why not let your students show what they learned creatively? Whether your students are reading independent books or your class has just fini…

My grade 1 classes art lesson. Rainforest art lesson inspired by a lesson from "Deep Space Sparkle". I still can't believe how great they turned out! This is a picture of one in progress.

This is a giant keyboard made out of black fast food boxes. This would be great for the ICT suite!

After years of STEM activities, including towers, bridges, race cars, and rockets, one my favorites is the classic catapult challenge! I believe it incorporates all aspects of a quality STEM activity: easy math connection, engineering design process, stud

This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to r...

I did these Holley portraits a few years ago with my kids (before we had a classroom blog) and never took pictures of them. My fifth graders loathed the writing process and there were a LOT of groans and frustrated, blank faces during the project. Writing in Art? Oh the horror. I recently dug this project back up because I needed an adaptive lesson to teach at a MagnetEd Conference this past weekend. I've also seen them popping up on Pinterest quite often and thought that maybe I should...

I’m teaming up with my good friend Susanna from Whimsy Workshop Teaching to launch our newsletters. Susanna and I know that we want to offer our you awesome ideas that you can use in the classroom. We are both compassionate about literacy and have so many ideas that we want to share with you. By […]

A blog about art, art education, up-cycling and design. It features tutorials, free designs and insight into Elle and Lou designs and processes.

storyboard--HOLES, by Luis Sachar--this is an end of novel project done by a student in my 6th grade class. A 16 panel summary of the novel Holes.-- These make for great displays on the bulletin board, and are a quick way to assess student comprehension and skills that still need to be taught.