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Oh how I love spring time and watching mother nature spring to life! One of my favorites is seeing trees start throwing out pretty pink and white blossoms. To
I love using Old Book pages for DIY projects, & today's leaf craft project combines them with Dollar Tree Woodcrafts. Budget Fall Decor Idea.
Learning about trees was a fun activity for my first grade students this week! We learned about the importance of trees on our environment and all the things that we get from trees.
We’re a bit late to the party with our April season tree, since it’s now May. April usually means April showers, but we decided we needed something more cheerful (not to mention easier…
Christmas comes and we all want the most beautiful decoration at our homes. This year we will invite...
A brown lunch bag and a stick are all you need to make these sweet, sculptural paper bag mushrooms. This charming nature-inspired craft is a wonderfully simple project for kids (or adults!) that can be
I love butterfly crafts, and this is a very straightforward one. A great excuse to use lots of bright colours too! You will need: Toilet paper rolls Paints (we used bottles of poster paints) Scissors Pencil Pipe cleaner 1. Paint your tubes first. To get a really nice mix of bright colours, put two or three blobs of colours that work well together on different plates (ones that don't make sludgy brown when mixed!). Like yellow and red, blue and white, or blue and yellow, green and yellow, yellow and pink, or blue, pink and white. White added to any of these colour combos looks great. We had some ready mixed purple too, which looked lovely with the pink and the blue. This is a great way for kids to experiment with colour mixing, using a simple palette of complementary colours. Give them a big brush to paint with (we often use a pastry brush) - this helps with the mixing and with speed.. and then let them loose! We painted the inside of the tubes as well, but you really don't need to. Works just as well without. Mixing up the complementary colours gives a lovely marbly or sort of tie-dye effect. But if you wanted to do stripes of colours instead, or add some dots, that's totally up to you! 2. When the paint is dry, flatten a tube with your hand and press along the creases, so it's easier to draw on. 3. Use a pencil to mark the outline of your butterfly - for the butterfly body, mark about 3cm/1in along the crease, on the left-hand-side. To get the proportions of the top and bottom wings right, we drew this body line a little closer to the bottom of the tube than the top. (As a guide, our TP roll was about 10cm, the body line starts 4cm from the top of the tube, and finishes roughly 3cm from the bottom of the tube. Draw a curved line from the top of the body line to the top right-hand corner. Make a pencil mark halfway down the body line on the LHS. Draw a straight line from the right-hand edge towards this mark, but leave a gap (of about 2cm). From the end of this line in the centre of the tube, draw a big curve down to the bottom right-hand corner. Then, from the bottom of the body line on the LHS, draw another sweeping curve towards the same corner, but for fuller bottom wings, don't take this line right to the corner, stop a little before. See photo below. 4. Cut out your butterfly, cutting through the doubled-over card. With the middle section, it's easier if you cut along the straight line first, then cut along the curve below, starting at the bottom right-hand corner. 5. Cut away a little sliver of the top wing crease. Cut it at a slight angle. See below. Don't cut off too much! 6. Open up your butterfly. The natural curve of the tube makes a lovely shape. 7. Bend a pipe-cleaner in half and hook it around the middle of your butterfly. Twist the two pieces together to fasten, then wrap one tightly around the other, to make a head. When you're happy, decide how long you want the antennae to be and trim the pipe-cleaners, allowing a little extra if you want to bend over the pointy tips so they're not so sharp. Bend into shape. 8. We made so many butterflies we needed somewhere to put them! So we painted some old cardboard packaging brown (you could leave it its natural colour) and cut out a tree trunk and some branches. We glued them all onto some brown wrapping paper with pva craft glue. But didn't stick down the very ends of the branches, so they stuck out a bit. Then attach a paper clip to the pipe-cleaner on the underside of a butterfly and clip this onto the end of a branch. If you don't want to be able to remove them, you could of course glue the butterflies onto the tree.
I've been making these colourful paper garlands to brighten up our new home. They are really easy and very inexpensive. All you need are some long strips of paper and a few dabs of glue. If you stick or draw some eyes on the end they also make great paper snakes/catterpillars. My three year old
Innovative creativity from PaperArtsy. Paint, stencils, and techniques galore for any mixed media enthusiast to enjoy.
St David’s Day is coming up on March 1st and being half Welsh we just have to celebrate it! My Mum used to send me into school wearing a daffodil pinned to my jumper (and even a leek on one unlucky occasion I seem to remember!) I have some photos of me dressed up in...Read More »
I can't believe - this was not published when it was written!!! so sorry....But later later than never...;-) 2013 seems to be a very inspiring number - this is a collection of various greetings for 2013 from my friends on Facebook and Twitter - enjoy! 2013 is the first year in our lifetime to be written with 0, 1, 2, 3. 12 + 345 · 6 – 78 + 9 = 2013 = - 9 · 8 – 76 + 5 · 432 + 1 10/9!*8!*7!-6!*5!/4!+3!*2!+1! = 2013 Properties of the number 2013 Factorization 3*11*61 Divisors 1, 3, 11, 33, 61, 183, 671, 2013 Count of divisors 8 Sum of divisors 2976 Is prime? No Previous prime 2011 Next prime 2017 2013th prime 17491 Is a Fibonacci number? No Is a Bell number? No Is a Catalan number? No Is a factorial? No Binary 11111011101 Octal 3735 sin(2013) = 0.68956696500461 cos(2013) = -0.72422192784694 sqrt(2013) = 44.866468548349 After a while you learn... by Veronica A. Shoffstall After some time you learn the difference, The subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning, And company doesn't always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts, And presents aren't promises. And you begin to accept your defeats, With your head up and your eyes ahead, With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child. And you learn to build all your roads on today, Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans, And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn, That even the sun burns if you get too much, And learn that it doesn't matter how much you do care about, Some people simply don't care at all. And you accept that it doesn't matter how good a person is, She will hurt you once in a while, And you need to forgive her for that. You learn that talking can relieve emotional pain. You discover that it takes several years to build a relationship based on confidence, And just a few seconds to destroy it. And that you can do something just in an instant, And which you will regret for the rest of your life. You learn that the true friendships, Continue to grow even from miles away. And that what matters isn't what you have in your life, But who you have in your life. And that good friends are the family, Which we choose. You learn that we don't have to change our friends, If we understand that friends can also change. You realize that you are your best friend, And that you can do do anything, or nothing, And have good moments together. You discover that the people who you most care about in your life, Are taken from you so quickly, So we must always leave the people who we care about with loving words, It may be the last time we see them. You learn that the circumstances and the environment have influence upon us, But we are responsible for ourselves. You start to learn that you should not compare yourself with others, But with the best you can be. You discover that it takes a long time to become the person you wish to be, And that the time is short. You learn that it doesn't matter where you have reached, But where you are going to. But if you don't know where you are going to, Anywhere will do. You learn that either you control your acts, Or they shall control you. And that to be flexible doesn't mean to be weak or not to have personality, Because it doesn't matter how delicate and fragile the situation is, There are always two sides. You learn that heroes are those who did what was necessary to be done, Facing the consequences. You learn that patience demands a lot of practice. You discover that sometimes, The person who you most expect to be kicked by when you fall, Is one of the few who will help you to stand up. You learn that maturity has more to do with the kinds of experiences you had And what you have learned from them, Than how many birthdays you have celebrated. You learn that there are more from your parents inside you than you thought. You learn that we should never tell a child that dreams are silly, Very few things are so humiliating, And it would be a tragedy if she believed it. You learn that when you are angry, You have the right to be angry, But this doesn't give you the right to be cruel. You discover that only because someone doesn't love you the way you would like her to, It doesn't mean that this person doesn't love you the most she can, Beacuse there are people who love us, But just don't know how to show or live that. You learn that sometimes it isn't enough being forgiven by someone, Sometimes you have to learn how to forgive yourself. You learn that with the same harshness you judge, Some day you will be condemned. You learn that it doesn't matter in how many pieces your heart has been broken, The world doesn't stop for you to fix it. You learn that time isn't something you can turn back, Therefore you must plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure. You really are strong . And you can go so much farther than you thought you could go. You really do have worth. And you learn, And you learn, With every goodbye, you learn... This poem was written by Veronica A. Shoffstall in 1971 and all rights are reserved to her.
Learn how to make spring blossoms out of tissue paper. Super simple and quick craft project.
Eloise Renouf Fall Trees http://www.highfivesforeveryone.com/eloise-renouf/eloise-renouf-trees/ Student Art 2nd grade Mrs. Johnson's class Santiago, Erin, Adam, Hayden, Reggie, Musa & Ria ----------------- 2nd grade Mrs. Parker Debora, Sophia, Lauren, Stephen, Aydin, Emily & AnnaBlaire ------------- Step by Step Supplies Needed 2 large pieces of consturction paper ___________ Cut a variety of shapes out of the construction paper. I folded the papers and cut multiple out at once. I did not end up using them all, but they were there as possibilities. Draw a line down the center of the trees with a pencil. This is the main line or trunk. Draw lines (of any kind, be creative) coming from the trunk. Make sure if you have multiples of one kind of tree, use the same kind of line as you did before (stay consistent with tree types). Lay out tree tops onto paper Plan the Taller ones in back and shorter ones in front. Hard concept- if a tree is on top of another, it will also be lower on the plan. This can be altered on the next step when drawing the trunks too :) When gluing down the trees, remind the kids to use Just a Dot, Not a Lot. More glue leads to more mess. It really does not hold better, just takes longer to dry. Put dots of glue around edges of trees. Glue down in place. Tired of saying it? Buy the poster here and never have to again! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher Draw trunks of trees coming from the center stem of cutouts... --------------------------------- OTHER OPTION CONSTRUCTION PAPER CITY SCAPE The Artist Rizzi (above) The above artwork is from http://seraphiccreationsartclasses.blogspot.com/2013/09/james-rizzi-cityscape.html This overlapping construction paper shapes with Sharpie idea could be done with 5th graders using the idea of James Rizzi too. I saw this idea and loved it. Can't wait to try it with kids! http://plateauartstudio.blogspot.com/2013/01/james-rizzi.html
This is a brand new range of origami diamond Christmas baubles from a collaboration between Origami Blooms and Anna Treliving Design. Anna designed 5 gorgeous brightly coloured patterns and I have folded them into diamond-shaped paper ornaments! This listing is for a set of three, a trio. Choose 3 of the same pattern or go for a pattern clash! They're made from recycled paper, threaded on a loop of cord and finished with a handpainted bead in a contrasting colour. Size: 9 x 9 x 9 cm (3.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches) The hanging cord is 8cm (3 inches) long. Origami diamonds are an original and eco friendly alternative to traditional Christmas tree ornaments, but they're not just for Christmas, oh no! These geometric paper decorations are great as quirky decorative accents in your colourful home, and they would be a magical addition to your alternative wedding decor. Just imagine them hanging from trees in a woodland setting, or from the beams of a barn or a teepee! Choose from the following colour options: Yellow zigzag Red squares Turquoise diamonds Pink circles Green squares If you would like more than one pattern, please state your choices in the 'personalisation' box. I offer individual origami diamonds here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/822896387/origami-diamond-ornament-eco-friendly Available exclusively at Origami Bloom and Anna Treliving shops on Etsy. Follow us on Instagram to see more! https://www.instagram.com/origamiblooms/ https://www.instagram.com/annatrelivingdesign/
Learn how to fold Origami Lucky Stars, then use them to create a DIY Garland! It's easy and fun, plus such a cute Christmas decoration!
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Though certainly not a new craft idea, toilet paper roll crafts are still one of the most popular crafts on Pinterest and it's easy to see why.
How to Make Paper Wisteria - This is one of those glorious DIYS that *looks* so much more complicated than it is. Easy, inexpensive DIY's are my jam.
