Make beautiful bubble painting Hydrangea flowers! Fun DIY dish soap paint recipe. Great kids art activity & easy beginner watercolor ideas!
How high can you build? Your kids will love this STEM challenge and it requires little to no prep from parents/teachers. Start building today!
Art projects that are fun for kids and bring in big bucks for your school auction!
The beginning of a new school year is exciting but can also be a little bit nerve-racking for children and teachers alike! The first days need to fulfil several objectives including allowing everybody to settle in, to begin to re-connect/make new connections and to be filled with enthusiasm for the year ahead. Whole school or class projects are a great way to start the year with a bang, so here are 16 ideas to inspire and make everybody feel part of the team.
Learn how your kids can make designs and patterns on colored paper simply by using the power of the sun! Your kid will love this easy STEM activity.
Kids can make these Colored Paper Collage Sculptures as a sculpture and colored paper collage project all rolled into one.
Stantec completed the Sheldon Lake Elementary School with a focus on innovation and performing arts in Houston, Texas. Sheldon Lake Elementary School emerged out of […]
With a little hot glue, paperclips, and a few spare parts you can transform an ordinary clothespin into a mini robot bug with glowing LED eyes that moves across smooth surfaces. The materials are super easy to come by making it a quick and fun DIY project that's guaranteed to please. Educators might also want
Make these fun penny spinners with just a few simple supplies. This project could be an awesome STEM lesson on physics, too!
Fourth Grade artists are continuing their architecture unit of study, but this time we are working on form. Form is the element of design that describes three-dimensional objects, or things that have height, width and depth. Students are building two-story houses out of cardboard, and trying to give their houses a sense of character. Students LOVE working in three-dimensions! Check out their finished sculptures soon in the Zilker hallway!
With these easy yarn projects for kids, your littles will be inspired to make new and creative arts and crafts with an unfamiliar material: yarn!
Fabtastic ancient Greek architecture STEM challenge & activities! Perfect for all ages: preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, high school, and adult!
Learn to make your own DIY bouncy balls. This easy tutorial will show you how to make clear super bouncy balls. Just 3 common ingredients! Click now!
In this Aquarium Perspective Lesson, Middle School students will dive right into learning about the principle of perspective while designing an aquarium.
You and your kids will love putting together these simple helicopters and watching them fly! *Video below
Use materials from around the house to create a shape geoboard. This simple shape geoboard activity is great for STEAM. Encourage learn through play.
Logan and I first attempted to make a Greek-style pot by covering a glass vase with air-dry clay, which worked years ago for his older brothers, but this time the clay cracked as soon as it dried. His brothers were younger when they made their Greek pots out of root beer bottles covered in clay. We went back to the drawing board and decided to make a paper mache Greek-style pot, using instructions in the Story of the World Volume One Activity Book, and gleaning various ideas online. Mixing together one part Elmer's school glue and one part water, we found that smaller pieces of newspaper worked better than longer strips. Logan got a bit tired of paper mache after one layer on the balloon, and I mostly did the second layer. However, four to six layers would have been more adequate, because our pot dented in at the top a bit when I cut a hole and inserted a plastic cup, and it dented in at a spot when painted. Logan painted the pot with terra cotta and black acrylic paint. We looked up pictures of Greek pottery online for design inspiration, but for the main pictures, he re-drew a picture of the Trojan horse. The handles are made out of Model Magic and hot glued to the pot. With such a detailed project, Logan did the work off and on over a period of many weeks. It helped that he is a very detail-oriented kid.
This large scale string art wall project for kids is easy and fun! It was intended to be a fall leaf string art project, but any theme will work!
If you like playing with paper whether it’s new or recycled this chart for all sorts of ways to manipulate paper could really come in handy for making all sorts of things from flowers to scul…
Articulated Grabber - Engineering Project for Kids: Have you ever dropped something behind the couch and couldn’t get it? Or perhaps your parents keep the best snacks on the top shelf, out of reach? If so, this project is perfect for you! This’ll extend your reach by over 30" (76cm)! I’ll show you ho…
The news was just released that little ones in my province will be home for quite some time! So I thought this the absolute perfect time to share some Quiet Time Kids Activities that use materials you already have at home. Now, we homeschool, so this news doesn't hold quite the same weight to us
This lovely DIY glue suncatcher craft is perfect for adding a touch of color to your home. Your kids will have so much fun mixing food coloring and creating beautiful patterns in the glue.
Challenge your kids to this engineering project and build an Eiffel Tower that's as tall as they are using building materials from around the house!
Starting with an 18" square of aluminum foil we created action figures. They are a busy group.
Does the idea of School Market Day for your child make you feel anxious about what you need to make? I’ve been there -- as recently as last year! To help stem the panic this year, I came up with ten clever, easy, and practical items to ensure that your child’s next Business or Market Day is a big success. Fun & Easy Market Day Ideas for Kids I tried to find things to make for many different ages, so whether your kid is in elementary school or middle school, they'll find a good, simple business idea in
Build some index card castles! This is a fun and engaging STEM challenge that kids will love, and the supplies are so simple.
60+ amazing paper crafts for kids (and adults) to make! From paper mache to printables, we've collected awesome ideas for crafts to make with paper!
60+ STEAM projects for kids! Science, technology, engineering, art and math activities perfect for science fairs, after school and classrooms.
How high can you build? Your kids will love this STEM challenge and it requires little to no prep from parents/teachers. Start building today!
