Of all the many marble runs we’ve built over the years, this is our new favorite! Simple materials and sturdy construction make it a WIN for a wide variety of ages. This would be great for a classroom STEM challenge. It all started the other day when we needed a break from homeschooling. It has […]
Oh my goodness. Miss G and I had so much fun with this little project this afternoon. The best part is that it was completely impromptu. She wanted ‘to craft’ as she always says, and when digging through our craft supply drawer, came across a little bag of corks we scored at our last trip…
Add some extra jingle and sparkle to your backyard this year with a handmade beaded wind chime with bells.
Does your child need to create a Greek Mythology Costume for school? See how my son, with a little help from me, created his DIY Ares Costume!
My Colours for Harvest Moon with the balls sizes and total yarn used: Ivory (Charity DK – 300g) Used 475g Rose (Elle Pullskein – 100g) Used 100g of Khoki and Rose, these colours are very close, so...
Welcome to Nisoria Musical Instruments! We make pentatonic and diatonic instruments that are rooted in our experience with music and pedagogy. We strive to make quality instruments that are balanced in form and tone. The design of our products is modern, inspired by Waldorf art, while allowing the natural tone of the wood to come alive. This lyre has the following pentatonic tuning: d', e', g', a', b', d", e", g", a", b"/ re', mi', sol', la', si', re", mi", sol", la", si" You can naturally vary the tuning of the instrument within certain limits. All of our lyres are made of one piece of wood, selected for resonance, with no defects and structurally solid. This particular instrument is made of European Ash wood. Ash is often used for solid body musical instruments. The natural resonance of the wood results in a balanced tone that is sweet sounding, for defined lower notes to clear high notes. The heartwood of some Ash trees has nice dark-on-light stripes that resemble Olive wood. We use mostly this part of the timber that is not only beautiful but also dense and strong, which helps with the resonance of the instrument and the rigidity against the string tension. This instrument is polished carefully to allow the natural colors of the wood to shine through. We finish the instrument with a few coats of Shellac. We use natural colored shellac for our ash instruments which ads a yellow - orange layer of color to the brown hues of the wood. Naturally, wood grain and color vary with each instrument, each one being unique. We use only high quality parts. The tuning pegs, tuning keys and strings are made in Germany. You can listen to one of our instrument here: soundcloud.com/user-644266/10-string-ash-lyre You can also visit our Youtube channel for some videos with our products: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxumIewxJByVWG5f-oqUW-g ♦ ITEM DETAILS: ✔ European Ash wood ✔ Natural Shellac Finish ✔ Color range from light brown to dark brown ✔ Metal strings (plain steel and silver coated steel) ✔ Chrome tuning pins made by Rubner in Germany The instrument comes with a tuning key and a handmade textile bag. You will also receive instructions on how to tune the lyre. For more information after purchase you can contact us any time. ♦ PERSONALIZATION: We can engrave on your instrument: - name or initials - a quote, wishes or other text - a logo, image or clip art Please contact us for further details on personalization.
This musical scale activity is easy to provide with mason jars. The activity will engage listening skills and fine motor skills, while providing sensory play.
It's been a couple of weeks since Sukkot ended and we took lots of photos... but wanted to share a few here that I compiled into collages. ...
Five engineering challenges for kids – with wooden clothespins, binder clips, and craft sticks! It’s a simple STEM activity that kids of all ages will love. Move over, expensive building sets! These simple materials were a huge hit with my boys. The first time we got them out, Owen (almost 7) spent well over an […]
Knit Like a Viking With Nalbinding - How to Do the Oslo Stitch: Nalbinding (also spelled naalbinding, nalebinding, nalbindning and other variants) is an ancient fabric construction technique that predates knitting and crochet by some 2000 years. This video shows you how to do the Oslo stitch, which is the simple…
Miss Oetken's scratchtastic Greek Vase with Achilles from Greek Mythology We've moved on in our art history time line to Greek and Roman art and we're concentrating on Black Figure Greek pots and vases! We learned about some of the popular basic shapes of pottery and their functions for what they were used for back in Greek and Roman times. I made two types of hand outs and worksheets for students. One that explained the basic shape of the popular vases we were looking at and another that show different examples of popular patterns found on Greek pottery. I also found the link to this website (http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/preload.htm ) a wonderful tool for showing students via projector the types of pottery that existed, how it was made, and ancient history. They also had amazing, easy, and fun printable worksheets I photocopied on the back of the 'how to draw vases' hand out! I also explained that they would apply pigmented/colored slips to decorate with pattern and to create scenes of daily life events or scences from greek mythology. They would also use a 'sgrafitto' 'SCRah-Feet-oh' or scratch with a fine sharp tool to draw detail in the painted on slip. We also learned what 'slip' was, clay mixed with water and minerals to color it. We also wanted to scratch into art history so we made our own scratch board vases to draw into. I painted my vase with black acrylic paint after I colored it in and coated it with warm colored oil pastels. Ready to scratch a design into! Example of an ancient Greek Black figure Hydra vase We also talked how important patterns were in the culture and the process of making the vase and looked at where it was usually applied, around the neck, handles, and base of the vase. Our first step after drawing the vase/pot was to choose a warm colors or cool colors oil pastels and totally COAT the entire vase, pressing hard. If you don't, the black paint will stick and absorb to those areas and won't easily be scratched away. Then after oil pastel fully colored and coated the entire vase, I had students use black acrylic paint to paint over wherever they colored in oil pastel. Next time it would be ready for scratching! We used paper clip ends and wooden styluses to scratch away gently into vases and just remove the black paint exposing the colored oil pastel underneath. Check out some of the finished products! Greek Mythology scene scenes from daily life from our civilization for another civilization to discover! Soldiers resting Popular patterns soldiers in battle
I finished the card and was quite happy at the way it turned out. I made a prototype without using G and then cut the same with G using Geor...
I stumbled across this idea on Pinterest and thought it would be perfect for my third and fourth graders! I often hear complaints from students that although others "allow" them to play games at recess, they often do not "include" them in the game. For example, in football they are on the team but the ball is never passed to them. I used this as a springboard for discussion on what teamwork really looks like. The Cup Stack is a great activity to facilitate teamwork. Some groups are able to complete the task very quickly while other groups must keep trying and trying to complete the task successfully. It's hard not to give up when things get frustrating, and this is a valuable lesson for children to learn in a safe environment. All you need is cups, rubberbands, and string. I decided to put my students into groups of 6, so I tied 6 equally spaced strings (about 1-2 feet long) around a single rubberband. Each group was given this device and 6 cups. The challenge is for the group to build a pyramid out of the paper cups (3 on the bottom, 2 in the middle, 1 on the top - can be adjusted for more cups). Group members cannot touch the cups with their hands or any other part of their bodies, even if a cup falls over or on the floor. Each person holds onto one of the strings that are attached to the rubber band and they use this device to pick up the cups and place them on top of each other (by pulling the rubber band apart and then bringing it back together over the cups). Some groups took 2 minutes to accomplish their goal, some 10 minutes, and some never successfully built their tower. I had groups that finished early watch the remaining groups to add a little "pressure." Afterwards we debriefed with the following discussion questions: Was anyone frustrated at all during the activity? If so how was it handled? What did you learn about yourself or others? Why was teamwork so important for this activity? What is so hard about teamwork? What did you do today to contribute to the teamwork on your team? What are some skills needed to be good at teamwork? Are you every in a situation where you must use teamwork? Is this always easy for you? Why or why not? How can we use what we learned through this experience in situations outside the game? Check out Teamwork: Cup Stack Take 2!
Five engineering challenges for kids – with wooden clothespins, binder clips, and craft sticks! It’s a simple STEM activity that kids of all ages will love. Move over, expensive building sets! These simple materials were a huge hit with my boys. The first time we got them out, Owen (almost 7) spent well over an […]
If the elementary school rumors are to be believed, it's only possible to fold a single sheet of paper a maximum of eight times. This fun origami project takes a solid eighty-two folds…
Sina is a shawl that is made just for you, for your everyday accessory that goes great with everything. Just hold it on your shoulders or wrap it around you to make you warmer. Welcome to your comfortable zone! You need 2 skeins of fingering weigh yarn and some grams of popping color for the i-cord. Look at your beautiful hand-dyed yarn and find the match to highlight your favorite speckles. Sina is simple to work. There are 2 sections: the mindless body section with just some purling and twisted knit stitch lines to pump out of the base, and the lace section that actually feels almost faster that the body. Increase and decrease and that’s it. Then slide the needle to the beginning of your wrong side and bind off using the i-cord method. And voilà, here’s your new favourite shawl, designed just for you. Enjoy! YOU NEED Yarn: 2 skeins of fingering weight yarn, at least 366 m (400 yds) / 100 g, merino singles suggested, 200 g in total 732 m (400 yds) 10 g of popping color Needles: 3,5 mm (US4) circular needle 80 cm / 32” 3,75 mm (US5) circular needle 80 cm / 32” Size: Approx. 95 x 135 cm / 37.5 x 53.25” after blocking GAUGE 27 sts x 32 rows = 10 cm (4”) of body pattern using 3,75 mm (US5) needle The sample shown is made of 2 different La Bien Aimée colorways that are faded together. The first for the body is Parchment, the second for the lace is Driftwood Graffiti. The popping i-cord is Lystig Merino Sock in colorway Tobacco. The pattern contains both, the chart and written instructions for all the rows. The pattern was first published in Finnish at Taito-magazine 6/18.
Letter of the Week crafts for preschoolers
FREEBIES included!! Letter G activities perfect for teaching beginning readers include letter g circle time activities ideas, letter g craft printables, letter g preschool songs, & letter g gross motor activities for those active learners. Also: letter g craft worksheets pdf format and letter g crafts for preschoolers & toddlers that are FUN, & letter G activities for kindergarten, toddlers & all young readers to get you started on G.
Letter of the week craft activity: Letter G is for Goose. Simple and easy letter craft for children in preschool or kindergarten.
LOTS of fun-to-make alphabet crafts for letter g! Over 25 Letter G Crafts for kids plus free letter g worksheets too! Toddler / Pre-k / K
More than 50 show and tell ideas that start with G to make picking an item easy for parents of preschool and kindergarten aged kids.
A fun and easy letter G craft to to teach preschoolers the alphabet. G is for Goose - this uppercase letter G can be used at daycare, if you homeschool or at kindergarten for the ABC countdown. Kids will cut and glue pieces together to build the uppercase letter G that looks like a goose. Two printing options available. The product includes: a list of supplies directions patterns photos of the final project step by step pictures PLEASE NOTE - Files are NOT editable.- Please be aware that this listing is for a digital download.- No physical product will be shipped.- There will be no refunds given once the sale goes through. TERMS OF USEYou are welcome to use this printable for personal or classroom use. No commercial use or reselling of the digital files or any finished product is allowed.
This week we worked on the letter G. If your wondering where I have been on my letter journey well we took a week off after munchkins birthday. We had alot to do and we needed a breather so I used it as a review week were we played with alphabet puzzles and highlighter letters and we reviewed the letters A-F. I wasn't going to stop so dont worry we are back at learning! This is what we did this week with the Letter G: Monday: On Monday we worked on letter recognition Tuesday: We worked on letter writing and made a letter G craft out of handprints which by using white paint we made into spooky Ghosts. Wednesday: We went to Central Library Play and Learn which was Halloween themed then we gave out candy at home for our Halloween celebration. Thursday: We cleaned up our yard after Halloween, packed everything away and ate too much candy. Friday: We worked on letter recognition through matching and worked online on our alphabet. Saturday: We went to Main Plaza to see the Dia de los Muertos altar, then to La Villita for the Dia de Los Muertos Celebration and ended the day at Hemisfair Park for the Diwali Festival of Lights. Sunday: We reviewed our letters and colored pictures of animals that started with the letter G. Overall with everything we did this week I think we got plenty of learning in too. I'm so proud of my munchkin for all his hard work. He is really letting it all sink it. How is your alphabet journey going? Any tips or advice to help us along our way?
This G is for Grapes craft is such a fun-to-make alphabet craft that kids of all ages will enjoy making along with a Letter G week.
Teaching the letter G and looking for ideas? Check out this letter g lesson plan complete with crafts, activities and free worksheets!
This G is for grapes craft is a fun and interactive letter G learning activity perfect for those working on their alphabet. Grab the free printable here!
Try some of these easy letter G arts and crafts activities for preschoolers. These fun crafts will be great for practicing the letter G.
Need an easy letter g craft or just a fun preschool craft? Grab this free printable template and some pom poms for an easy gumball machine craft!
A fun and easy letter G craft to to teach preschoolers the alphabet. G is for Goose - this uppercase letter G can be used at daycare, if you homeschool or at kindergarten for the ABC countdown. Kids will cut and glue pieces together to build the uppercase letter G that looks like a goose. Two printing options available. The product includes: a list of supplies directions patterns photos of the final project step by step pictures PLEASE NOTE - Files are NOT editable.- Please be aware that this listing is for a digital download.- No physical product will be shipped.- There will be no refunds given once the sale goes through. TERMS OF USEYou are welcome to use this printable for personal or classroom use. No commercial use or reselling of the digital files or any finished product is allowed.
Goldfish are a great pet for young kiddos! They are a great choice for this kindergarten letter G craft, G is for goldfish!
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