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Snow Crystal Picture

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students color a snow scene and use salt to make snow crystals. In this art activity students add Epson Salt to water and paint the snow background. After drying the salt with sparkle like real snow.
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Library Lion

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the book, "Library Lion," by Michelle Knudsen. In this literary activity, students read and discuss the book, then complete associated activities, such as a "lion hunt," lion craft, and finger puppets. Other associated...
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Bathtub Beach Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create bathtub toys using foam sheets. In this art activity students cut foam sheets into shapes and play with them in the bathtub.  Students may also use these in the pool.
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Pilots

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and have 'p' snacks all to learn about pilots. Students also pretend to fly and draw what they would see if they were flying up in the air.
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Flower Power

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars create flowery napkin rings, paint umbrellas, paint flowers, and create "butter-flowers" in this four-day lesson all about Springtime. The activities in this lesson could be accomplished over four days, used separately,...
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Quick As A Cricket

For Teachers K - 1st
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of reading a story and then they reenact it while performing a pantomime. They answer questions related to the reading and then children move throughout the class imitating...
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Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create a pumpkin art project that outlines the life cycle of a pumpkin in order to learn the growth process of this particular vegetable. In this pumpkin art lesson, students first review the life cycle of a pumpkin as a class,...
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Help Others

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars share the value of helping others through reading and art activities. In this Clifford and the Big Storm lesson plan, students read the story, discuss courage, and create a gallery of heroes.
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ABC Toast

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students use a little milk mixed with food coloring to paint on the first letter of each child's name, their whole name, or another letter of their choice. In this art lesson, students butter the bread and sprinkle it with cinnamon-sugar...
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April Showers Umbrella

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create an April Showers Umbrella. In this art lesson, students use an umbrella cut out and tissure paper to make a colorful umbrella. Students glue the tissue paper to the umbrella, allow it to dry and use it for decoration.
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Bleach Snow Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create snow pictures. In this snow picture activity, students use bleach, q-tips, and black and blue construction paper.
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Reindeer Food

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create a Christmas activity by making reindeer food to sprinkle on their lawn on Christmas Eve.  In this Christmas lesson, students can also make apple cobbler and keepsake handprints.   
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Book Week Campout

For Teachers K - 5th
Students end the celebration of Book Week in their gym class. As a class, they follow directions to move along with a song and how to use their stuffed animals to move to the music. To end the lesson, they participate in a pillow fight...
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Build Your Own Bug

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a unique bug. In this activity about bugs, students use their imagination to develop a new kind of bug. Students use construction paper, scissors, glue, and crayons to make their bug. Students explore the different parts...
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Coffee Filter Eggs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make coffee filter eggs. In this art activity, students cut coffee filters into egg shapes. Food coloring is added to water and students drop the colors onto the eggs using a eyedropper. Students allow the filters to dry and...
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Leaf People

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use fall leaves for art projects. In this art activity, students use leaves to create leaf people. Students take a nature walk in fall and collect leaves. Students make arms and legs and paste them to the leaf.
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Sugar Cube Castles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students build a castle or igloo. In this art lesson, students mix icing sugar with water and food colouring to make a paste preparing a firm base and then use the paste to stick the sugar cubes together.
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Thumbody Loves You

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make thumbprints with stamp pads. In this art lesson, after making their thumbprints students put eyes, nose, mouth, hair, legs and arms on the thumbprint.
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Winter Waltz

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students pretend their room is an imaginary frozen pond. In this performing arts lesson, students create the illusion that they are skating on the pond by using wax paper on their feet. Finally, students get in the winter mood by...
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Chore Chart

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students cut out their face from a picture. In this art lesson, students put velcro on the back and then find pictures in magazines of various chores. Students glue pictures to the posterboard and velcro pieces for the faces. Students...
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Sandpaper Painting

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a picture using sandpaper and crayons. In this art activity, students draw on sandpaper using crayons, place it on newspaper, iron over it and remove. Students can place the picture in a frame to give as a gift.
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Spring Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create Spring butterflies. In this art activity, students use coffee filters to make butterflies. Students add food coloring and water together for paint. Students use an eyedropper to drop the colors onto the filter. Allow the...
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Shgar Cube Igloo

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a sugar cube igloo. In this art activity, students use sugar cubes to create an igloo. Students glue the cubes together, dust with sugar and allow the project to dry.
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Decorate Your Own Cupcake

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
In this If You Give a Mouse a Cookie-themed worksheet, students color and decorate the blackline master template of a cupcake.