1st Grade - Act. 03: T-Shirt Glyph

Here's a colorful activity that can be modified for any age group. Kids create printing blocks and craft t-shirts and/or canvas sacks using the blocks and fabric paint. 

Students investigate how food, clothing and shelter come from soil after they examine soil from their own backyards. They map soils on the color wheel before making glue and soil pictures and tie-dying T-shirts in red soil.

Students become responsible and involved citizens. In this t-shirt printing lesson students design and create a teeshirt with a message about citizenship and responsibility. Natural objects are used as stamps.

First graders listen to story Chrysanthemum, discuss story with a focus on the length of Chrysanthemum's name, and compare the lengths of their own names using letter tiles, grid paper, and a class graph.

As we all know, some clothing has a way of letting us know a little something about the person wearing it. Kids explore the idea that clothing can be a form of communication and artistic expression. They analyze a Native American textile...

First graders create sections of classroom quilt that be tied together.

First graders creating mouse attached to a helium balloon, and dance around to the sound of some fun music.

First graders research special facts about Nebraska like: state bird, flower, tree, capital, and flag. They then draw what they have found onto a t-shirt and present them to the class.

Students create either a t-shirt or pillowcase to remember their classmates from a given year. They use different colored permanent markers to write their names and a message on the shirt or pillowcase.

Students read book, "The Cotton in your T-Shirt," brainstorm facts about cotton, make cotton paper bag puppets, and list facts about cotton on the back.