Bird Ornaments

The kids and I made these sweet little birds for the tree.  I got the idea from the teacher I was working with during my student teaching placement.

Materials -Felt, tacky glue, hot glue, glitter, google eye, string for hanging

I used a dove clipart for a pattern-1. cut 2 out of felt 2. tacky glued the heads bodies and tails together 3. put on google eyes, put tacky glue on wings -wherever you want glitter 4. shake glitter over glue 5. hot glue string to back -in between layers.

pretty and simple.

More Jelly Jar Snowglobes

Today was the day the kids made their snowglobes.  They had fun, a little difficulty but they all turned out great!

Jelly Jar Snowglobe

The kids will be doing a project like this for the Christmas season and since I had the jars I did one too.  My kids are making them tomorrow.

Materials:
Smalll Jar -I used the little jelly samplers
Modeling Clay
Glitter
Water
Dish soap
Hot glue

amazingly modeling clay will withstand being in water.

make a base on the jar lid to put your snowman or whatever.
add a few drops of dawn to water and lots of glitter.
hot glue cover on
create base with modeling clay

it's that easy!

What do snowmen love? ....SNOW of course

The first grade are working on these adorable collage snowmen.  He is looking up at the new falling snow -the thing he loves best.

Eric Carle Snowman Lesson for Kindergarten

Found these cute snowmen online for the kindergarten class to do -they expressed how much they wanted to paint last week.  Me and my three kids did these up today for examples for the class.  They had fun doing them.  My son really liked the camo paper I found for him.  My 18 year old daughter made one too and took her sweet time-hers is the first one.

Apple Studies

The seventh grade have been working on drawing apples.  They start with a contour drawing, move to a shaded drawing then colored pencil and finally oil pastel.  They will be doing their colored pencil one next week so I gave it a try...never used colored pencils before (yes hard to believe).  I think they came out okay, they look like apples.

I started with the red and green one on the top, using a real apple which seems to have come out better than the rest.

Fantastic Faces

As you know I am student teaching in an elementary school to finish my degree requirements.  For fun and future reference I am doing the projects along with the students.
This project is being done by the first grade students.  For the past few classes they have been searching magazines for facial features for their face.  They can use any image that is not an actual facial feature as long as it fits.

I did this one up last night, not as easy as it looks.  My biggest challenge was finding "food" which was sized right for the features.