Halloween Crafts for Kids: Spider Webs and Witch Puppets

Halloween crafts for kids usually center on pumpkins and ghoulish items.I'm jumping on the bandwagon here and offering you two Halloween kids crafts that are developmentally appropriate yet

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Clay Bowls for Thanksgiving just like the Native Americans

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to start working with clay. If you are a choice based TAB teacher then you can find more about using clay in the

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2 Mixed media fall projects using warm color tissue paper

The media used for these projects (mixed media)were bleeding tissue paper and oi pastels. there were 2 different grades that did these 2 projects.A first grade class and

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Paper mache bowls with fall leaves

A friend of mine sent me a picture of a project she did with her grandchildren of a fall leaves bowl and I thought it was so beautiful

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Back to School Arts and Crafts: Mini murals using mixed media

As kids begin their new school years many teachers start looking for back to school crafts ideas. Focusing on what they did that summer is often a common

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Snowman crafts: No need to use boring styrofoam balls to get realistic snowmen

Snow had just fallen last week so snow crafts was on my mind when I went to teach art in the local school that I teach in. What

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Christmas crafts for preschoolers: Last minute, easy ornaments out of egg cartons

I had started a great Christmas crafts with some preschoolers and then saw a similar activity on Buggy and Buddy on crafts using bells. It reminded me that

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Thanksgiving Crafts Projects: Awesome Turkeys and Indian Pottery

Fun Thanksgiving projects for kids Preschool and kindergarten teachers normally automatically have the children create boring, copycat turkeys for their Thanksgiving crafts projects. Why however, do Thanksgiving crafts

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9 Native American crafts you can use to celebrate Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is right around the corner so here are 9 Native American (Indian) crafts for you to try...non of them copycat crafts.The crafty classroom shows us how to do totem

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Not your typical bunch of apple crafts ideas

Tis' the season for some apple crafts. For me apples have a close connection to Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year which is a couple of days away.

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