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Art - Print-Making Card Designs
Here’s a great idea for easy print-making designs using pictures from magazines, pencils, and clean, washed styrofoam trays. These easy to do prints make it easy to create beautiful greeting cards for birthdays, Mother’s Day, … View Full Lesson →
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Math - Making Fossilized Eggs
This is a great dough for making fossils or fossilized eggs. The eggs are made by “burying” a small toy inside egg-shaped dough. Fossils are made by pressing shells or fish bones into the dough … View Full Lesson →
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Writing - Box o’ Love
For a different spin on Valentine’s Day poetry, try this unique idea – have students make a Box o’ Love for a loved family member. Using a covered cereal box, students decorate the box with … View Full Lesson →
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Writing - Valentine’s Day Gift Vouchers
Staple some envelopes together to make a booklet with “pockets” to place Valentine gift vouchers. Great idea for Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Grandparent’s Day as well. Students come up with ideas for helping around … View Full Lesson →
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Art - Ripped Paper Art – Snowmen, Mountains and Evergreens
This art lesson is easy enough for grades 1 and 2 but can be adapted for other grades as well. A huge amount of learning goes on in this lesson. Students learn about depth, foreground, … View Full Lesson →
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Art - Christmas Potpourri Hangers
This is a beautiful, useful Christmas craft. Although this activity needs adult help for gluing, I have safely done this activity with grades 1 and 2. We collect clean metal lids and bits of ribbon … View Full Lesson →
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Art - Standing Snowmen
By cutting and folding four snowmen, then gluing the halves to other pieces, students get Standing Snowmen. All four snowmen can be decorated differently or all the same. The bottom of them all is flat, … View Full Lesson →
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Math - Butterfly Magnet
This painting activity helps reinforce the concept of symmetry while creating a useful gift from a empty pop bottle. Butterflies can be used to hold pictures and lists on the fridge or can decorate the … View Full Lesson →
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Art - El Greco: Drawing Tall People
Making a masterpiece like El Greco’s tall figures is easier for students when they use a magazine picture and cut it apart to s-t-r-e-t-c-h it. They trace over it to end up with a … View Full Lesson →
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Health and Nutrition - Spill Your Guts (Review Game)
This is a review game for any subject. Using leftover pieces of bristol board or heavier paper scraps (free from printing shops), question and answer cards are made. Teacher can do this in every subject … View Full Lesson →
Lesson Plans for Elementary School Students
Full Length Lesson Plans from an Elementary School Teacher