MistleTOES

Great gift for parents! I found this idea and I fell in love. It is so cute and CHEAP!

First buy a white glass plate at the dollar store. I bought mine at the dollar tree. Second buy the paint, I got the ENAMEL paint at Micheals Arts and Crafts. The bottles were the most expensive, $2.99 a bottle, but if you have a coupon at the right time you might get away with a good deal!!

First wipe the plate down with a light damp towel. I painted just one foot green, then stamped it twice. I didnt need to reapply paint the second time but you might want too. I let it dry. Then I had them dipp their thumb in the red to make the berries. Then I used their thumb, pointer finger, and middle finger to make the lights. Then with a green shapie I made the strings to attach the bulbs. I also used black sharpie to add the tops to the bulbs and the works Mistletoes. Then on the back I had them sign their names.

When it is dried for atleast 48 hours put the plate in the over for 350F for 30 minutes. This allows the enamel paint to set and you can use the plate without having the paint chip off. I dont recommend putting in the diswasher though. WARNING: Taking the plate out of the over do not touch the sharpie lines, they will rub off when you first take it out of the oven. It dries and wont come off when it cools.

Real cute but requires alot of feet and cleaning up of those feet! lol

HAVE FUN!!

Pattern Mittens

 

Pattern Mittens

Pre K

 

 

Patterns! This is a cute way to teach the kids how to make patterns in a fun way! Since winter is beyound us and snow is fun but a pain lets make some pattern mittens. The first thing we did was splatter paint...this was sooooo much fun with the kids...lets just say the paint ended up on the paper but also their face and hair...hahaha. I watered down some white tempra paint and added some glitter to give it some affect. I had the kids then splatter the paint on the blue paper.That took one class. Then I had the mittens drawn on two different color construction papers...make one different then the other (color wise). I had the kids cut it out. Once they have that cut out then they drew two lines...one stright one zig zagged. That gave them three sections. Now this took a while but I had to seperate the foam shapes...and jewels.... fuuuun. Once you have them seperated the kids were given the shapes and jewels and with no help make a pattern with them. They had to make a pattern before I gave them the glue to glue it down so I can check. lol Once the mittens were glued and pattern glued BAM! You got yourself some pattern mittens! 

Eric Carle Lesson (2nd Grade)

The Art of Eric Carle

 

This was my first lesson during my student teaching year. I love the artist Eric Carle!! During that year I was able to work with the 2nd graders and create my own lesson. I chose to work with color and who is the perfect artist for that but Eric Carle.

 

I read them two books, "The Art of Eric Carle" and "The Mixed Up Cameleon". These two books are perfect to show color and talk about how the artist creates his works. I talked about the jungle and what types of animals are out in the jungle. I printed out hand out of different types of jungle animals for reference. I then gave them paper and asked them to just draw the outline (Sharpe Marker) of a jungle animal  of thier choice, NO detail or coloring! They cut out thier animal. I then explained that the coloring we are using is not crayons but tissue paper like the artist. Now I found that it was a little dificult with the application for them but they did a great job. I did a demonstration of glueing the tissue paper down. (The glue: Elmers glue+water) They had a cup of glue, a brush, and tissue paper of their choice. They then brushed the glue on the animal paper and then applied the tissue paper. (I found that they were getting sticky hand and the tissue paper was sticking to thier fingers) Luckly we had sinks in our classroom so I told them to get a wet towel to wipe thier finger or I had them use plastic spoons to apply the tissue paper down (This is also good for student who has sensory issues). After the tisse paper was on they brushed the glue ontop of the tissue paper to seal it. They came out soooo good!!!