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Beginning Sewing Projects
Students practice basic sewing techniques constructing a sewing project.
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Christmas-Tree-Shaped Poem Cards
Students create holiday cards with poems in the shape of a Christmas tree. The poems tell how students spread joy this holiday season.
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Frame It!
Learners make decorative picture frames for holiday gifts and use creative thinking skills to decorate frame patterns. They demonstrate ability in following directions.
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Snow Caterpillar
Students create a snow caterpillar. In this craft lesson, students roll five snow balls for the caterpillar's head and body. They use sticks and tennis balls for the antennas and lemons for eyes.
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Easter Eggs
Students create Easter eggs. In this Easter lesson, students cut out an egg shape from a paper towel. They color on the towel with washable markers and then paint it with water to let the colors run together.
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Anything Available
Students create a painting. In this visual arts lesson, students use blocks to dip in paint and make a print on their paper. They use a variety of fingerpaint colors.
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Corn Cob Craft
Students create paper corn cobs. In this fall craft lesson, students cut yellow construction paper into corn cob shapes and green paper into husks. They glue colored popped popcorn onto their corn cob shape.
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Decorative Shoelaces
Students decorate shoelaces. In this arts lesson, students add beads to their laces. They also add designs using fabric paints.
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Remember Me Bag and Other Gift Ideas
Students make end of the year gift bags in the forms of a bag with different materials in it. In this crafts lesson, students put stationary, lollipops, stamps, bookmarks, pencils, and other materials into the bags.
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Kwanzaa Activities
Students listen to a book about Kwanzaa and discuss the holiday and its importance. In this Kwanzaa lesson, students make crafts after they read and discuss the story.
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Art Studio
Students collaborate with their classmates to create a sculpture with the provided materials in order to cultivate fine motor and social skills. In this collaborative art instructional activity, students work in small groups to design...
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Pierced Ear Ring Frame
In this craft instruction worksheet, students follow the directions to construct a frame to store pierced earrings. Students use a wooden picture frame and a piece of screening and construct this craft project.
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Fancy Sunglasses
In this arts worksheet, students cut out the different colored and styles of sunglasses to create their own to wear. The fronts and sides can be custom designed.
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Buttons
In this arts worksheet, students find the terms for things used to create craft art and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Giving Back to our School Community
Students recognize that gifts can be for a community and not just for an individual. They acknowledge that helping to beautify our school community is a positive step in becoming a contributing citizen.
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Easy-to-Design Multiple Image Quilts
Pupils create a shadow quilt using designs from the book Shadow Quilts by Patricia Magaret and Donna Slusser. They use the book's ideas to design the quilt with their own fabric choices. They practice the shadow quilt technique and then...
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Setting Solutions
Students piece together a quilt from leftover blocks. They problem-solve ways to incorporate random block designs into a visually pleasing quilt design. They used sashed sets, coping stripes and triangles to work out the design.
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Using Foundation Piecing to Create Quilt Blocks
Students create a log cabin pattern quilt block inspired by an antique silk quilt in the Shelburne Museum. They choose a color scheme and practice the basic technique of foundation piecing. After they complete a quilt block they remove...
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Recycled Lid Ornament
Learners create a keepsake ornament out of recycled plastic lids and other household items.
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Snowy Night Snaps
Pupils use misprinted photographs donated from a photo processing company to create paintings of a snowy landscape at night.
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Holiday: Christmas Games and Crafts
Young scholars access a variety of Christmas themed websites. They play online games and send e-mail letters to Santa. They complete word searches and read Christmas stories.
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Paste Papers
Pupils combine acrylics with School Smart Art Paste to paint paper and to explore color mixing.
