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Thanksgiving Turkeys

 


Hi there! Look at the cute little turkeys we made today in class, in honour of Thanksgiving! I've done this craft before with real leaves, except they evetually all crumbled and disintergrated. I much prefer the craft with paper feathers and real ones! Have fun! My students loved them!

Here's what you need:
🍁 toilet paper roll
🍁 colourful construction paper
🍁 glue
🍁 scissors
🍁 black marker
🍁 feathers
🍁 body template (see below) printed on sheets of kraft paper

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Pencil Name Picker

 


This project cost almost nothing.. and now I have the cutest random name pickers for my classroom! Perfect when I want to pick a student at random. Now, I just need a cute mason jar and some names labels on for these guys.

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Fall paper wreath


Hello Fall! To celebrate fall arriving, we created a collective artwork in class this week: a fall leaf wreath! I found my template HERE and HERE and printed them on cardstock. Also, you know those kids love those googly eyes, so..... why not! Happy Fall Y'all!

Materials:

🍂 colourful cardstock
🍂 a big bristol board (cut into a "ring")
🍂 googly eyes
🍂 glue
🍂scissors


Check out this one from a few years ago:



Template found on: onelittleproject.com






 

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Magic Potion!

Hi there! Today, we had a Halloween-themed day for our "funky Fridays" (because, why not!?) and we made some magical wands and magic potion!

For the wands we used cardstock and ribbons, as well as a branch or shishkabob stick.

Then we said a magic spell and watched as our potion came to life. We used a vinegar solution with food coloring in it and mixed in some baking soda! I found this nice little video and it looks like if you add in some dish soap, it'll even bubble! I wish I would've known!
Materials: a jar, a spoon, vinegar, baking soda, food coloring (optional: dish soap)

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Rockstar microphone!


Hi there! Last week, we had a special Rockstar/Popstar day and we made microphones from toilet paper rolls! They are super easy to make, and the kids loved them!

Materials :
♪ toilet paper roll (tube)
♪ black paper
♪ foil
♪ tissue paper or newspaper (to crumple up and make a ball)
♪ decorative paper!

Instructions:
*note, instead of using a whole bunch of foil, we made a ball of tissue paper and wrapped it in foil!
We got dressed up!
Even distance-learning can be fun! We had a karaoke sing-a-long with our microphones through Google Meet!

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Little Toilet Paper Rooll Robots

The one on the left is hand-drawn, the right uses the prinout!
Hi there! This week we are reading a funny little stroy about a magical robot in French class, so I thought the kids could invent their own little guys! I actually have motors and everything at my place, but since class is virtual these days, toilet paper rolls it is! I'm trying to come up with crafts that the kids can do at home with things they probably have. The inspiration came from this post I found. The kids can print the sheet with all the robot body parts, or draw their own on a sheet of paper!
Here's what you'll need:
  ⚙ Toilet paper roll
  ⚙ Foil
  ⚙ Scissors
  ⚙ Glue
  ⚙ Printout or paper & black marker
Cover your tube with foil and look at all the different combos!

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Paper Frog Puppet

Hi there! Check out this cute little paper frog hand puppet! I'm trying to do an easy paper craft or two a week with with my now on-line classroom, so that the kids aren't working all the time. We do a sound of the, en Français, and this week was G/J. So we made a nice frog eating cake = Une gentille grenouille qui mange du gateau. They turned out so cute! Wish I wouldve taken a creen capture of all their little frogs during our Google Meet video-call! The craft was inspired by this Blog Post I found on Pinterest. Theres' a great video showing you how to fold the paper!





Here's what you'll need:
    🐸 construction paper
    🐸glue
    🐸scissors
    🐸markers





The kids loved it!

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Monster Flowers!

Hi there! The other day, I made some awesome monster flowers with my students (through a video chat!) To celebrate spring! They turned out so great! 

Materials:
► construction paper or cardstock
► markers (or a black sharpie)
► scissors
► glue
► stem (pipe cleaner or stick)


Here are the steps! 
1. Cut out two identical circle and add a monster face! 2. Cut 6 strips of paper. 3. Glue the two ends a strip together  in order to make half a bow. 4. Repeat for all 6 strips. 5. Glue behind the monster face and then glue 2nd circle on top. 6. Add a stem!

What a nice looking bouquet!

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African Animal Collage


Hi there! In our grade 2 social studies unit, our second unit is on the countries of the world. This week we explored two countires in Africa (Côte d'Ivoire and Mali) by watching documentaries to discover the differences with their ways of living. to finish this section off (next week: Japan!), I decided to make a craft with the kidos! I pre-cut all the black animal silhouettes using my Cricut Maker, and if you have one, you can follow my link here.


Here's what you need to make this craft:
■ thick cardstock 4x6 (for the backing)
■ black, red, orange and yellow cardstock (or construction paper)
■ black marker
■ scissors
■ glue
Step 1: rip strips of paper
Step 2: glue all the layers down. Make sur the ripped edges show!
Step 3: DETAILS! Add some animals and draw some trees!
Voilà!

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Gingerbread House Lantern


Chritmas gifts to make with students for parents!This year again, We decided to make little gingerbread houses from empty milk cartons once again. They look so cute with a little electric tealight candle in them! Hope the parents like 'em... The kids sure had fun making them!

Here are the instructions from last year for my Milk Carton Gingerbread House!

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Easy Xmas Bear Cards

Hi there!

What a crazy busy year with our new house and mega renos. Finally settling down and getting back to my crafts. Here are some fun cards I made for my students this year, a little different then last year's polar bear xmas xcards.
They inspired the cards that I got my students to make for their parents: a fun and simple polar bear. Each student received:
▪ 5x7 card
▪ 4x6 piece of christmas scrapbooking paper
▪ bear cut out

They then got to decorate them with their imagination.... and a sharpie!
Here's how they turned out: I LOVE THEM!!! GAH!!! (C'est trop mignon!)

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Kawaii Shrink Art

Hey again! I had a pretty fun time organizing crafts for my coworker's very crafty daughter's birthday party. She had her birthday party yesterday and wanted some crafts that weren't too "childish". We made some sweet Unicorn Dreamcatchers but I wanted another project they could do afterwards that didn't involve as many materials, so I went to my go-to Shrink Art that kids ALWAYS love. I get the clear stuff from DeSerres and sand it a little to be able to use colouring pencils on them. The kids LOVED this project. I found a bunch of Kawaii (cute japanese) images on-line and then they trace it onto their piece of Shrink Art! We had everything from kawaii cupcakes, pandas, unicorns, you name it! Just search ________ Kawaii on-line and you'll find adorable images. Then, we added a little metal jump hoop and a key-ring and turned them into keychains after! Hooray!

Materials: coloring pencils, x-thin black sharpies, scissors, key-rings, hole puncher, metal jump hoop, key-ring and Shrink Art (or Shrinky Dinky, found at you local craft store).
Instructions:
① Draw your image on the rough side of your Shrink Art piece. if it's the clear stuff, place your favorite image underneath and trace it!
② Trace the outline with a black sharpie.
③ Cut your shape out and punch a hole. *Don't forget this step. It'll be impossible to do once it's shrunken and thicker.
④ Bake at 325°F for 2 minutes, until completely shrunken and FLAT
⑤ String it onto a key-ring, earrings, a necklace, whatever you like!
Watching it Shrink!
Tracing onto the Shrink Art plastic
All shrunken and adorable!!!

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Unicorn Dreamcatchers

Hey ya'll! I had a pretty fun fun time organizing some crafts for my coworker's very crafty daughter. She had her birthday party yesterday and wanted some crafts that weren't too "childish". So I went to my go-to Shrink Art that kids ALWAYS love. I get mine from DeSerres and sand it a little to be able to use colouring pencils on them. I also wanted to find a special project that would take a while to make and that I can't do with a large number of student in a classroom (a little guilty pleasure). After some research of Pinterest, I found some Unicorn Dreamcatchers. I was a bit reluctant since it is a traditional aboriginal craft, but I made sure to tell the kids the background info on it and told them it wasn't a real one.

They turned out so great!


       Materials
       ♥ 6" metal rings
      ♥ yarn
      ♥ waxed string
      ♥ white glitter felt
      ♥ glitter poster board
      ♥ beads
      ♥ scissors
      ♥ glue gun
      ♥ embellishments (paper flowers, foam shapes, etc.)


Instructions
There is a great little video at the bottom of this post from Hello Wonderful,

1. Wrap yarn around the metal hoop, covering it entirely. Add some hot glue to secure.
2. Tie the waxed string to the top of the hoop and cross over to make a star-like pattern. Add beads.
3. Cut out ears from the white felt and inner ear with pink paper.
4. Cut out a horn from glitter paper.
5. Cut your yarn that will hang at the bottom. Mine was about 1m/36"
6. Secure at the bottom with a cow hitch knot.
7. Decorate with embellishments: flowers, jewels, whatever you want!

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Paper Reindeer and Elf

 Hey there! Those who know me know that I love crafting with toilet paper rolls. There are just so many little creatures you can make... and they stand up! I made these two examples for my students and they invented their own versions! This craft turned out so cute! It sure was a challenging craft with a need for hot glue, but it was well worth it.

Look at these cute reindeer.

One student even made a Santa!

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Milk Carton Gingerbread House

Hi there! It's the last week of school and we are very busy crafting! The students finished their gifts for their parents yesterday, and they are just ADORABLE!

We made little gingerbread houses from milk cartons (that the kids drink at school) and then popped in a little electric candle to turn them into little glowing homes! So cute!

Make sure to clean them really well and let them dry before starting the craft.




We sanded the milk cartons to remove the wax, then painted them brown.
After, we cut out 3 windows and a door ( to insert the candle)
We glued the tops shut to make the roofs.
We cut out the scalloped roof and layered it up!
The kids decorated the house with pompoms, foams stickers and glitter!
Here is the template I created for the roof. :
I photocopied this on 8.5 x 11 letter sized paper.

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Fall Paper Wreath



Hi there! We made some cute paper wreaths this week. I got inspired from my leaf cutouts and garlands that are hanging in my windows in my classroom. Look how cute these turned out!

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