Tag Archives: 1st grade
DANCING FIREFLIES
Have you ever admired dancing fireflies on a dark summer night? You can almost hear the music as they swoop and circle carrying their little sparkling lanterns. While some of the blinking lights seem to stand still, others wildly dart … Continue reading
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THOROUGHLY MODERN MATTISE
How do you suppose the Goldfish painting of Henri Matisse would look if he were painting it in the year 2014? Goldfish were a new craze in Europe in Henri Matisses’ time, and they became kind of an obsession with … Continue reading
DANCING PENGUIN FEET
I love the little dancing penguins in the movie, Happy Feet, so I wanted to include a winter project for one of the art classes featuring these favorite little birds. The bodies, breasts, feet, beaks and wings are torn from … Continue reading
FOLLOW THE STAR COUNTDOWN CALENDAR
You know that from now until Christmas the kids are going to ask, many times, “How many days ’til Christmas?” Help them make a countdown calendar like this one so they can see how many days are left. The star is the … Continue reading
LETS MOVE IT
I believe that it was on Artsonia that I saw a project like this a couple of years ago and thought it was a great lesson for the kids. The class started this by discussing how we know an animal … Continue reading
LADYBUG
I think ladybugs are fascinating little insects.Here is an interesting fact about ladybugs. Different ladybugs have different numbers of spots. Some have no spots while some have as many as twenty four. This is a 1st grade project to improve … Continue reading
ANIMAL MASKS
Last year the first grade students and I had the best time doing this project. We asked their teacher to leave the room while we made animal masks and practiced a song to sing (or recite) to her. The kids … Continue reading
PAPER BAG BUILD-A-PUPPET
We named this project “Lunch Bag Build A Puppet.” The only supplies needed, other than colored markers and a glue stick, are a brown lunch bag and the animal features copied on white construction paper. Patterns are included in this … Continue reading
