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Decorate A Tree
Young scholars decorate a tree with ornaments which represent different locomotion skills such as crab walk, stretches, jump rope, and jumping jacks. Great for holiday week.
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Descriptive Writing
In this writing learning exercise, students color and design an ornament and then describe their ornament on another sheet of paper. Students, after all the ornaments have been hung up on the board, attempt to match the descriptions to...
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Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight
Students participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
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Printable Poem Starter: If You Were an Ornament
Students have the opportunity to finish a Christmas-themed poem about an ornament hanging on a tree. The first two lines establish a simple rhyme scheme that students can follow as they finish the poem. The worksheet includes a picture...
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How Do You Celebrate?
Investigate the customs of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa with a holiday instructional activity. Pupils use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the customs of each holiday before writing an informative paragraph about one...
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Advent Calendar
Students create an advent calendar. In this Christmas activity, students use cut out Christmas trees to create an advent calendar. Students use stickers and velcro to complete the calendar.
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A Haring Holiday
Young scholars create a holiday ornament. In this Keith Haring art lesson, students use paper mache to make 3-dimensional ornaments that resemble his work. Young scholars cut out felt shapes of babies, dogs and angels then sew them...
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Standing Snowmen
Students practice their arts and crafts by creating Christmas projects. In this holiday lesson, students utilize construction paper, glue and scissors to create a 2-D image of a snowman. Students create 2 more snowmen and glue the...
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Holidays, Christmas-Part 2
In this foreign language worksheet, students select the correct word from a pair of given alternatives. All of the 10 sentences are about Christmas. Students are directed to select the most natural sounding choice.
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5 Sense Bear
Students become familiar with their five senses through the creation of a sense bear. In this five senses lesson, students create a bear and add cinnamon and a candy cane to the bear. Students use their five senses with this bear...
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Light Bulb Santa
Students create light bulb Santa's using old light bulbs, acrylic paints, ribbon, and cords in this art instructional activity for the second through eighth grade classroom. This is a great activity to do before winter break. A picture...
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Origami Cubes
Fourth graders use an origami design to make a set of cubes. Individually, they identify the characteristics of different quadrilaterals as they are folding the paper into cubes. To end the lesson, they make a new design with new...
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Integrating Art Into Other Content Areas
Here are some ideas to help add an art lesson to every math, science, social studies, or language arts unit.
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Wilson Bentley and Snowflake Crystals
Fifth graders read the book, 'Snowflake Bentley' by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. They gather and make a list of information about snowflakes and crystals. Then they make their own real crystal snowflake creation and observe the crystals...
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Fact and Opinion 3: Post Test
In this fact and opinion instructional activity, students answer multiple choice questions about facts and opinions where they identify sentences and identify facts or opinions. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Turkey feathers- Counting
Students use turkey feathers to count. In this turkey feather counting instructional activity, students find the correct number of turkey feathers to correctly show the number.
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Lenses and Mirrors
Students investigate lenses and mirrors showing how they bend and reflect light waves.
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Farm Pictures
Students paint farm animals. In this farm animal lesson, students paint pictures of farm animals during one thirty minute session. They cut out and glue the pictures on a picture of a farm which they also painted in the second session.