John 10 I am the Door Bible Video For Kids
This is a fun idea shared by Jenise B. from the MT View ward in AZ The only direction I have are what is listed below. Relief Society Family History Escape Room #1. Silver number lock on black box…
Want to learn how to make a catapult? It's easy and fun and the perfect STEM activity for kids of all ages! Toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten kids
An elementary art teacher blog with art projects and lessons, DIY projects and outfit photos as well as clothing I have made myself.
40 DIY Escape Room ideas for home! Ideas for puzzles and clues using materials from home for kids or adults. #35 is my favorite...
Learn conflict resolution strategies for kids in 4th grade with my anecdote. I used these techniques when some friends had hurt feelings and you can use these tips with your elementary students too. Click to read on Shut the Door and Teach.
This is a fun idea shared by Jenise B. from the MT View ward in AZ The only direction I have are what is listed below. Relief Society Family History Escape Room #1. Silver number lock on black box…
Twitter Unplugged On Your Classroom Door
Coding Activity for Kids - Teaches kids the fundamentals of computer programming without using a computer. Optionally uses LEGOS or build a maze.
I’ve added one more ‘craft mom’ activity to my week. Our church sponsors a Good News Club gathering at a local apartment complex each week. One of the volunteers asked if I would create a craft for the kids each week. The craft has to be simple and easy for the kids to create on
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Are you following us on Pinterest? This experiment allows children to see that air takes up room and is always present even though we can't see it. Ages: 2 -12+ (see the bottom on how to simplify or extend to meet the needs of your child) Materials: Empty water bottle balloon straw blu-tac (or similar) tray for catching the water (optional. You could always do it outside, in a bath, or near a sink) Begin by blowing up a balloon and asking your child "What is in the balloon?" Let the balloon go and talk about what happens. Next: Take the empty water bottle and ask your child "What is in the bottle?" Blow up the balloon again and place the mouth of the balloon over the empty bottle without letting too much air escape. Ask your child, "Why isn't the balloon going down?" Investigating to see if she can see why the balloon is not going down. Explain that the balloon is not going down because the bottle is full of air so the air inside the balloon has no where to escape. Now, to make the water bottle fountain Carefully, with a pen, poke a hole in the empty bottle just big enough for a straw to poke through and seal with blue tac. (This is the hardest part of the activity and is best done by an adult. If the bottle is wet, the blu-tac will be hard to stick) Ask your child, "What do you think will happen if we pour water in?" Pour water into the bottle over the level of the hole. (NOTE: Make sure that your straw is pointing up, (unlike what's pictured here) and that you fill the water so that it's level with the very top of the straw.. this is because water will level itself out so anything above the top of the straw will probably come out) Plug any leaks that you have by squishing down the blu-tac. At this point with the water at the same level as the top of the straw, it will not come out. This, you can see was quite surprising for her :) Blow up the balloon, hold it closed and put the mouth over the top of the bottle. Let go, and wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! a fabulous fountain! She loved that you could see the balloon go down as the water streamed out the straw She understood that "the air in the balloon pushed down on the water and forced it up the straw." But she especially loved it when the balloon ran out of air and the water fountain did some funny last spits before stopping! Handy Tips: - Simplify this activity by not questioning your child as much and just letting them experience the joy of the water spouting out the straw as the balloon. Do the very start of the activity with the air and let it rush out on their fingers or toes and then ask them what's in the balloon or tell them that what was in the balloon was air. When you show them the water fountain experiment, tell them that the air in the balloon is pushing down on the water like it did on their toes, so the water goes up the straw. - Extend this activity by having your child make a prediction about what they think is going to happen. You could even extend as far as having them write a report on it or write it up properly with a hypothesis etc. - Allow your child to manipulate or be in control of as many of the steps as they are capable of. - Talk with your child about what they are doing. This will help them understand the physical and mental processes they are going through as well as giving them the vocabulary to describe it. - Use new language and descriptive words like, "invisible" and "pressure." This will help with their language development. - Listen to your child talk as they go through their experiences. This will help you determine where they are at with their learning, knowledge and understanding and help you to develop the activity (or future activities) to their level and interests. Want more Science Activities for Kids? Here are some of our most popular science activities Make Cloud Jars Explore with Magnets Experiment with Play dough and Water Test Absorptions and make Patterns with Coloured Water Happy playing, Debs :) Look where else we are. Are you following along? :)
Finals are upon us! Aka; the time of no social life.
When I visited Europe as a child, I remember being struck by the Gothic stained glass windows, and particularly the rose windows found in so many cathedrals- for their symmetry and massive scale. So this year as we've been homeschooling through the Middle Ages, I found myself wanting to help my children interact a little with the beauty of Gothic stained glass somehow. I liked the way this project allowed my children to do their own work but create pieces that were unique and presentable. I had envisioned helping them a great deal, but found that the the art mediums at both stages of the project were very forgiving. My six-year-old and four-year-old made their windows almost entirely on their own. I think an older child could include finer detail and could maybe be more creative with the project. Materials: Glass rectangle from a small picture frame Black fabric puffy paint with a fine tip Acrylic paints Clear liquid glue Procedure: 1. Find a simple outline of a rose window online (a google image search produces lots of options), resize it to fit your glass rectangle, and print onto paper. 2. Place the paper with the outline underneath the glass rectangle. Trace the outline of the rose window onto the glass using the black puffy paint. There will probably be more detail on the outline than is possible to include in the tracing. I let my six year old decide which lines to trace and which to ignore. If you do a little research you can easily find the technical terms to describe the different kinds of shapes in your particular rose window. For example, my six year old's window included a central roundel, and trefoils around the outside of the wheel. It's ok if your child doesn't have a perfectly steady hand with the tracing or if the lines run together at some places. The black puffy paint looks like lead between the panes of glass, and wobbly-ness is actually a pleasing effect here. Also, you can touch up major mistakes with a paper towel. 3. Allow the puffy paint outline to dry. (At least three hours). Mix acrylic paints with clear gel glue on a palette. There is no exact ratio to follow. The finished color on the glass will be more or less opaque depending on the amount of glue. Different amounts of transparency in the same window can be pleasing. Just make sure the glue is thoroughly mixed with the glue before painting with it. If you paint with a little bit of paint that has no glue mixed in, the finished product will have brush marks instead of the smooth look of stained glass. Make sure all the panes in the window are thoroughly filled with paint for best results. Allow to dry overnight. I love these! They cheer me in my kitchen as the light shines through them on the window sill there. The fact that stained glass is beautiful only when light shines through it reminds me of this fact: "God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin."* They are a gentle reminder to me to stay in fellowship with Christ during the day! I John 1:5-7 Get 10% sitewide when you shop at Access Hydroponic. Valid until November 2013!
Germ Experiment: When I saw this germ experiment, I knew we had to add this into our unit on First Aid. After all keeping ourselves healthy is as important as patching up the injuries, right?! The experiment called for gelatin, sugar and petri dishes. We didn’t have petri dishes so used paper cups and covered them immediately with glad wrap in lieu of a cover. Boil 1/2 cup of water...
These Anchor Charts have been updated. Please look at the updated posters before printing the older graphics on this page. Click here to see them. Click on the link under the picture to print each of the following posters. Here are a couple of printable posters I will use on the walls and for visuals: Saul vs. Paul Luke Light Roman Citizen Old/New Law Christian The Church Baptism Baptism Felix Festus King Agrippa Leaving Jerusalem This sign can be used for any Bible lesson, especially for travelers and the different places. Really, it can be used any number of ways. This has been discontinued by Carson Dellosa. I use this train for our study in Acts. Each car has a short title to tell the kids what questions are inside. We use them for review, and I let them take turns putting the laminated papers back in the cars, which they think is great! This did get published in the very last issue, of the very last page of Ideashop by Gospel Advocate! Here is a closer look at a car: Here are what they basically look like. A question, a picture or clipart, and Lift-the-Flap answer. Everything is laminated. I used cardstock on the backs of the cars to make a pocket. Make sure the cardstock fits on the back and doesn't show on the front. It needs to be big enough to hold the question sheets. I glued around three edges of each piece of cardstock, bottom and the two sides, and used my Aleene's Tacky Glue to attach the cardstock to the back of the cars. Mine looks like this: Just to give you an idea, my train cars are labeled with: Acts, Light, Basket, Lydia, Paul & Silas, Aquila & Priscilla, Eutychus, Jerusalem, "Trials", Malta, Rome. Also, when I staple them to the wall, I line them up, and staple the pocket in the middle to the wall, then staple the sides of the car to the wall. That makes it a lot easier to put the worksheets back in the pockets. You can find more about the train and download the posters here. (This is copied from an earlier post) This is not a great picture, but I have this on the wall with Bible Facts as the title (top right). We use this for review about basic Bible knowledge (grades 1 & 2) when I have extra time. The questions are on the labels with a clue picture, and the answer is inside on the letters. What are the 2 parts of the Bible? How many books/letters are in the Bible? How many books are in the Old Testament? How many books/letters are in the New Testament? How many letters do we have from Paul? What is the first book of the Bible? What does the first book start with? (creation) What is the first verse of the Bible? Who wrote the first 5 books? (Say them) What is the first book of the New Testament? What does the first book (Matthew) tell us? (Birth of Jesus) What is the last book of the Bible? Revelation (no s) The mailbox can be found here. Right next to the mailbox, I have these numbers for the letters we have from Paul. These should be cut out and laminated before attaching to the wall: Click here to print the 13 in green, pink, and blue. On a wall right next to the mailbox, for further discussion, I have the numbers 39 with a plus sign and 27 with an equal sign with 66. Also 13 for the letters we have from Paul. You can purchase them here. (Different website) Here are some older bulletin boards for Acts, if you are interested. You might get an idea! You could use any mailbox. You could use real envelopes and write on the outside. Or, print envelope or postcards on clipart. Here what mine have printed on them: From: Paul in Corinth To: The Saints in Rome (Romans 1:7) From: Paul in Rome To: The Saints in Philippi (Phil. 1:1) From: Paul in Rome To: Timothy (2 Timothy 1:4) From: Paul in Rome To: The Saints of Ephesus (Eph. 1:1) From: Paul in Ephesus To: The Church at Corinth (1 Cor.) From: Paul in Macedonia To: The Church at Corinth and the Saints at Achaia (2 Corinthians) From: Paul in Rome to: The Saints at Colosse (Colossians 1:1) From: Paul To: The Churches of Galatia (Gal. 1:2) From: Paul in Macedonia To: Timothy (1 Tim. 1:2) From: Paul in Corinth To: Philemon (Philemon 1:1) From: Paul in Corinth To: The Church of the Thessalonians (1 Thess. 1:1) From: Paul in Corinth To: The Church of the Thessalonians (2 Thess. 1:1) From: Paul To: All Christians This was used in a Jr High class, and also a teen class. You can find the Roman soldier here.
Escape Rooms are a very popular thing right now. Here's how to make your own escape room challenge for kids in a few simple steps.
Let's talk about teaching catechism in the household. The What, Why, and How of using catechism for the whole family to get closer to God. First you must choose a catechism to use. After that, it's just a matter of making the time each day/week to practice the questions with your kids.
Introduce children to photosynthesis with this fill-in-the-blanks life sciences worksheet!
Halloween is the best holiday of the season. Its so much fun to indulge in Halloween decorations. They are sun, creative, spooky and so amazing. If you're
There are many elements of classroom decor that can affect a student’s ability to learn. One school day starts when you pass through the classroom door so this door is the first thing that teachers…
Great ideas for welcoming kids to your classroom.
Your children will love this kids door signs craft tutorial for how to make personalized bedroom door signs with craft supplies you likely have on hand.
Make the first day back to school special with these colorful classroom door ideas.(They also make great bulletin boards!)
Transform your classroom door into something unique, positive, special and welcoming for students with this “YOUR WINGS ALREADY EXIST ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FLY!“ Door DIY Kit. What’s included? ✅ (35) Cardstock Paper Butterflies cutouts in different colors ( as shown on pictures) ✅ (11) white words cutouts and exclamation mark( as shown on pictures) - multiple pieces, some assembly required. ✅ (1) girl cutout reaching butterflies ✅ (1) boy cutout reaching butterflies I love to work with custom orders. If you have a specific theme, I can create the cutouts for you. Contact me for any questions.
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More about the Murals as seen in Homes interiors and their creators on Wescover. This rainbow mural is on a unisex bathroom door. I love the concept. When the client asked for a rainbow on the door I thought it could look much more sophisticated if it wasn't in a traditional arch shape but we could s… Explore unique Art & Wall Decor and Murals by rising artists around Cottesloe. Find original art such as wall tapestries, wood art, ceramic sculptures, macrame and fabric wall hangings on Wescover.
Great ideas for welcoming kids to your classroom.
