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Tissue Paper Flowers For Valentines Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make a Valentine's Day gift. In this gift giving lesson, students make a bouquet of flowers out of tissue paper to give to a love one.
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Paper Plate Sunflowers

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
A great way to recall the parts of a flower is to make one. Little learners create sunflowers out of paint and paper plates. They also discuss and label the various parts of their flowers. 
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Creating a Memorial Day Poster Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Does your class know about the meaning of Memorial Day? Discuss the history of the holiday in this lesson, which prompts elementary and middle schoolers to create word webs of ideas about the holiday. Additionally, they create poems...
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Kodomo No Hi: Children's Day Celebration

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Children's Day is a beloved Japanese holiday with many colorful and engaging traditions. On this national holiday celebrated yearly on May 5, children are honored for their strengths and given good wishes for happiness. Your younger...
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Mother's Day Carnations

For Teachers K - 6th
Students make a carnation craft wtih a carnation, food dye, ribbon, dixie cup, and more. In this carnation lesson plan, students make this craft for Mother's Day.
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Paper Batik Flowers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create original works of floral art in this three-day Art lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. Included with the lesson is a picture example of the finished project and tips on how to create the art using black India ink...
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Paper Batik Flowers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine and demonstrate the art concepts of drawing simple flowers, and overlapping. They create flower paintings utilizing the technique of Batik.
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A Gift for Mother's Day

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create a Bonita card for their mothers on Mother's Day. Students learn about symetry.
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Cinco de Mayo - What is it?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students, after examining why the fiesta Cinco de Mayo is celebrated, plan a fiesta that includes invitations, games, music, paper flowers, flags and a menu of authentic foods. By completing this assignment, they enhance their education...
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Message to Mother

For Teachers 1st
First graders write sentences to their mothers and include them Mother's Day gifts made with paper cups, a balloon and newspaper.
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Valentines Roses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create bouquets of roses using tissue paper, pipe cleaners, masking tape, paint, and construction paper in this early elementary art lesson. A possible extension includes making Vlentine's Day cards to go along with the flowers.
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An Apple a Day

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the Johnny Appleseed story. In this service learning lesson, students sequence the life cycle of apple trees and recognize how Johnny Appleseed worked as a philanthropist.
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Raindrops Keep Falling on my Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Kids may be a little resistant to this rainy day idea, but it could produce some amazing art. They paint a watercolor picture of anything they like. When they are done, they take their paintings outside and let the rain work its magic!...
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Scratch Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create a piece of art using crayons, black paint and toothpicks. They cover a paper with bright crayon color, paint over the crayons with black paint and then scratch a design over the black paint in a an outline of their choice.
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For Creative Minds: Tudley Didn't Know

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover facts about the animals in John Himmselman's book, Tudley Didn't Know, and make a paper turtle. In this marsh animals instructional activity, students first read the book Tudley Didn't Know. Students read facts about...
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Moving with the Marigolds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the basic needs and purposes of flowers. They differentiate between wants and needs of people. They participate in trust building exercises. They role play the movements of flowers.
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Let's Learn About Plants!

For Teachers K - 1st
After listening to From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons, learners take a walk around their school looking for plants. They use digital cameras to photograph the plants, then construct a class book which has the identities of the plants,...
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Let's Learn About Plants!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover different plants and plant parts by observing their campus.  For this plant life lesson, students take a guided walk around their school with a magnifying glass examining everyday plants as well as photographing them....
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Kids' Bread Restaurant

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils use technology as a tool for learning. They work together on a special project.
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Tactile Journals

For Teachers K - 8th
I absolutely love this idea. Children with visual impairments create tactile journals which describe an event from the previous week in an artistic way. They verbally describe one event from the previous week and then use a wide array of...
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The Earth Moves Around the Sun

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students demonstrate that the movement of the sun causes shadows which were used as the first indicators of telling time.
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Toco Toucan - Oil Pastels

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create a picture of a toucan from the continent of South America using a pencil, marker, and oil pastels. Students identify the continent of South America and discuss the Toco Toucan. They follow teacher directions to create...
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Community Tree Contest

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students observe trees in their neighborhood. They practice tree identification and incorporate math skills to determine the winner of a 'Tree-mendous Tree' contest in which they determine which is the biggest tree.
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What is a Still-life?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use works of art to explore how to paint a still-life.