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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 - Valentine’s Day Booklet
This heart-shaped Valentine’s Day Booklet is written especially for mom or dad, grandma or grandpa. Pages are written and illustrated with lines like “Flowers love the sun./ Dogs love walks./Children love candy”, etc. with the … 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 - Christmas Rudolph
Have students make a Christmas Rudolph that mom or dad will love to keep forever. Students trace their foot for the face and trace their hands for the antlers. Big brown eyes and a giant … 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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Writing - Stop and Go: Capitals and Periods
This is a fun and memorable way to remind students that sentences always begin with a capital and end with a period. I use 1/2 inch sticky labels in red and green to help students … 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 →
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Art - Picasso Portraits
This art activity will take two sessions to finish. Once the paintings are finished, they need to dry before they are cut up into “Picasso Portraits”. (This second session will not take long.) In this … View Full Lesson →
Lesson Plans for Elementary School Students
Full Length Lesson Plans from an Elementary School Teacher