Materials: 2 kitchen towel rolls, wrapping paper, coloured paper (for the background), 2 plastic/paper cups, 1 basket, pompoms (or other small objects that can fit through the rolls), scotch tape. Age: kindergarten and primary school kids Instructions: The photo is probably clear enough…you don’t even need to cover the rolls, but I wanted them to…
Math Pipe Cleaner Game
Materials: polystyrene, pipe cleaners (different colours), straws, scissors, beads (the same colours as the pipe cleaners), dice. Instructions: This game can be used as a number game – Roll the die and put as many straws/beads as the number indicates – or as a sorting game – place the beads of a certain colour over…
An Easy Shape Game
I had some popsicle sticks around, so I made these easy 2 piece puzzles. We will use the game during our morning circle routine, to practice shape recognition.
A List of Art and Craft Supplies
Every teacher who loves crafts as much as I do needs most of these items. I bought a dresser and painted it in 5 colours, then used plastic containers and labels to store everything. · A4 white paper· Beads· Beads and string· Blu tack· Buttons – different colours and sizes· Chalk· Chenille stems – pipe…
Wet Chalk Drawings
Materials needed: Coloured chalk, black construction paper, water, a plastic cup. The kids in my group enjoy arts and crafts a lot. That’s why we need to find new ways of using the art supplies that we have. We drew with wet chalk on black construction paper and this is the result! Lively colours and…
Make Your Own Paint
I was a bit bored during the weekend: it was freezing cold outside, so I decided to stay indoors and try to use some ingredients that I had to make something else. I mixed some hand cream with food colouring to make some paint. The texture is quite nice…it’s soft and it doesn’t ruin the…