Thanksgiving Craft Project: Creative Turkeys?

Thanksgiving projects in traditional kindergarten classrooms  often have  turkeys in them: wouldn’t you say? And these turkey craft projects that are done for most children’s arts and crafts projects are the standard copycat models where there a specific copy for the children to create the same turkey as all the other children. Right? It may [...]

Arts and Crafts for Sukkot: Homemade art exhibits plus more

Making art for the holiday of Sukkot is a great opportunity for you to create an art gallery. For anyone reading this who doesn’t know what Sukkot is, it’s a Jewish holiday that includes a Sukakh ( an outdoor hut) that Jews eat in for the duration of the holiday. Since children love to decorate [...]

Halloween Craft: The coolest masks made out of paper mache

 Halloween crafts and masks. A perfect match wouldn’t you say? These masks are a long project that takes a few days but well worth the effort, if you are in this to really in this to give the children a great art experience. Otherwise don’t even start the activity if you don’t like mess and [...]

Fall crafts: Making trees with rubbings and real leaves

Fall crafts are full of opportunities to add all sorts of outdoorsy fall leaves and other fall nature objects into art activities. (Even though we did this activity in the summer time) This particular activity is really a tree art activity. It doesn’t only have to be done in the Fall, but since Fall is [...]

Winter Craft: Snowmen Collages

Winter collages in the summer eh? Well that’s if you are reading this right around posting time, which is in the summer. Very easy explanation for that. Our art camp had topsey turvey day. But the truth is if you live in Australia it is winter now. Another thing is that this type of crafts, [...]