Something fun to do in class -

Everything I am finding requires paper towel rolls, or cans...I need 20. No way I can come up with that in so short a time...needs to be something I can buy. Unfortunately. I have got to do better at planning.

paper mache....

(messy fun)

Paper mache is fun...maybe we can blow up balloons and let them make something from covering it. Hmmmm....really messy though! Wonder if I can get it done in 45 minutes?

Thanks Rock.

mismi, one of my daughter's teacher did a nice math game (she was in second grade then) with smarties. You could look up in the internet a funny math
game for 3rd graders and pass out smarties for better understanding

Tryagain's thread should also have many good examples of puzzles. Kids like
that!

This site has some cool, quick crafts: http://www.expertvillage.com/video/20355_tissue-crafts-flower-pot.htm

oh oh oh...........

clay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

willow weaving

paper weaving

plant (seed painting)


oh oh oh.........ping




edit: ok.... can you get cheap tiles (6inch x 6inch) and let them decorate them with....... oh anything, seeds, popcorn, painting, leaves - dried leaves, or leaf skeletons and paint on top of them

or some slate tiles like you would have on a roof - and then chalk drawings on them

S-boy made fabulous ones which are wall hangings

picasso style paintings - will find the photos from school and post (need to take the kids names off tho)

tiles can be REALLY CHEAP - basic teracotta tiles or smaller ones - and you can get little tiny mosaics tiles which you stick on to make pictures or even just their initials

and put a wire on the back held on with glue gun globules and the kids and parents LOVE them..... real keepsakes

oh....... go to a Michaels - they have the best ideas

http://www.michaels.com/kids-crafts-and-activities

ENDLESS ............... love this stuff for kids

the mere thought of arts and crafts makes me hyperventilate, and gives me sweaty palms.

candle paintings - give each kid a candle and some a4card- do a drawing....or write their names and decorate the letters and then thin water paint over the top....can be rainbow paintings...so all the watercolours merge...

dry

smiling kids





feather pictures - that would be perfect a? bag of multicoloured feathers and makes pictures.... or get some small polystyrene balls or stars (not very eco polystyrene <slaps wrist again> and you can stick things in or on with plastic pins........ cheaps as chips and not messy


skeleton leaves can be stuck on.... they could collect them from anywhere or buy them and make a skelly leaf ball or pic

or you put one or two on top of the card.... paint over...... lift the leaf up- stunning pictures........ get them to sign the card and they have their own masterpiece



<okay...... I need to be quiet now a? >

Poor, poor Chai....

Izzie - the candle painting sounds awesome.

Thanks Boomer and Jane - these are so great!

Ok " these are just ideas " you could adapt them using different materials











Corn/wheat/leaves .... paint over



Quick dry Clay........ mod roc...... <maybe take longer than 45 mins for mod roc tho>














Take a square (whatever) of coloured paper " then paint the colours out from the picture in the middle...







these were done various ages 4-11

Well, you certainly never make it to the quilt row at the airplane.

Oh Izzie, I like the colorful tiles - is that clay too?

In my daughter's school they had (fundraiser) sold plain white tiles for us
to paint them any way we want to (glass colors) and hung them up on school
walls. It's nice too!

yep - clay tiles and then 3D flowers <imagination required > and acryllic paints - then can be varnished - they look fantastic

glass paints or glass marker pens (any craft shop but quite pricey in the UK) are great on tiles or decorative bottles to make vases - the kids love to take them home.

We display all the achievements first and then show them on the school website <well, when I get around to uploading them to the web >

I like how they glued the picture then continued it on their own in paint...so creative. I really do love those tiles....

bookmarking...love the tiles!

oh just quickly - had quick thought.... this is easy.... kids love it, boys and girls....

tissue paper circles and big staws or twigs....
stick the sticks up thru the centre of the paper circles and twist a the bottom and bind with some tape or string. Can make paper tuip/daff leaves- they can make daffodils, tulips, poppies and walk out after school with a bunch of flowers for mom or dad.

This kids at school made me some daffoldils which I kept for a year in the office - everyone remarked on them.





http://www.marthastewart.com/article/kids-paper-flowers


Ladybug Rocks
http://crafts.kaboose.com/earth-ladybug-rocks.html


decorate clothes pegs as animals or stick things on and use a book marks or photo holders




get a bunch of the huge sidewalk chalks..... get the kids to go on the playground and make an art attack of somesort - maybe put them in teams - to celebrate..... earth day, school logo, baseball teams....

and get them to Draw a BIG pic on the playground - it'll wash away.



wall mural..... some paint a blue sky across 5-6 sheets of A5 paper
then some rolling trees
then each child paints their own flower - but a border around it and stick on a wall in the school halls or classroom.


http://www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/menu_marblerunpaintings.html

all kids would love this
oooooh.... really good fun..... marble painting..... give each kid one or two marbles, some think paint and pour on a litle onto the card, kids place marbles in the paint and tip the paper, marbles draw the picture..... add a second colour paint and repeat - amazing pics. Really fabulous. Kids are marvelled at the marbles.




not advent calendars

two pieces of cards - cut out 3 sides of small squares on front card for say ... month of may, june, july ie.e July 4th could be a little larger, or school events going on.

Put cut out care with small 3 sided cuts (like little doors to bend back.... mark lightly where the squares are outlined on second card under...... then kids draw happy summer flowers or events, or put in their fave stickers of animals or such like, parents, teachers, friends, siblings birthdays. Decorate front and number the doors with dates of the month.
Stick cards together by sellotaping the edges together at all 4 sides. Then, the next day - they get to open their first door.



and gone zzzzzzzzzzzz - good luck Dixie gal.

(scuse any typos)

Izzie - you are amazing. Thank you so much for your hard work. Those daffodils are adorable. And I love the clothes pin idea. That may do very well. I might can use some of my paint pens and let them decorate...

((Izzie)) you are such a blessing! I have not taken time to research - you have done it for me!

Hi y'all...

I ended up doing something different and let me tell you why. On Thursday the kids did crafts ALL day. Their teacher had a planning day and they had a substitute. It being the end of the year they did art. I was advised of this by my kids THURSDAY NIGHT. So...I scrambled around trying to come up with something that would not be so craft oriented. Then I remembered the math game was perfect. I actually found a fingerprint game that they got to make finger prints and divide up into two groups. One person in the group was chosen to be the perpetrator - the "Perp" we called them. They put their finger print on a card in secret. The other team had to compare their finger print to the ones that had already been made and figure out who it was. I was amazed that they got it every time. They had magnifying glasses and we learned what type of fingerprints there were and which one they had. They got Smarties and all had fun! Thank you Jane

Izzie - I had the tissue paper...I had even got the clothes pins so they could put their posies together for their Mom or something. But oh well. I will do that for my Sunday School class.

The ideas were all so great! I do this quite often...so I have a place to come to to get the perfect thing. Thank you all so much!

I am doing the tiles with the boys this summer Izzie....can't wait!