Art

<p>So here&#8217;s a quick and easy activity that we did in my class the day before Spring Break started.  I wanted to come back to a classroom full of bright, happy, Spring-like images.  So why not rainbows? So here&#8217;s how this activity worked. First they wrote their names vertically down a page of their journal. &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/rainbow-name-poetry/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Cute Rainbow Name Poet

<p>Aren&#8217;t these flowers cute?&nbsp; They were motivated by my need to clean up all of my leftover scrapbooking paper. I have thousands of sheets left over from my days as a Stampin&#8217; Up! demonstrator. Over Christmas I cleaned out my crafting room and took a ton of supplies to school. We&#8217;ve been working on the &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/learning-about-color-wheel/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Learning

<p>I hope your day is great. &nbsp;We have a party planned for today. I just wanted to share with you all this fabulous bulletin board that my colleague put together last week. &nbsp;You can click here to check out her blog with instructions. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!</p>

<p>Totally cute right??? I whipped up this little creation today. And it&#8217;s available today in my store   CLICK HERE   to get your own copy.    </p>

<p>So here are some cute and bright heart plaques we made. I glued the popsicle sticks together with a glue gun first. Then the kids painted them. &nbsp;I really like the rainbow effect. Then they glued down various little hearts I had. The smaller ones I made with a punch, and the larger ones are &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/blog-post/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Rainbow Heart Art</span></a></p>

<p>This is a female Snowy Owl. This is a male snowy owl Here are the owls we drew as a class. First the kids drew the owl in pencil &#8211; there are instructions at the bottom of this post. Then they traced the image with a sharpie. Next they used crayons to add a bit &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/drawing-snowy-owls/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Drawing Snowy Owls</span></a></p>

<p>First off, I must apologize for the terrible quality of my photos. One of my colleagues did these really neat firework photos last week and I just had to share. The kids drew a skyline on black construction paper with chalk. Then they cut it out and turned it over. Next they glued it to &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/super-quick-and-easy-firework-fun/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Super Quick and Easy Firework Art!</sp

<p>Here&#8217;s some hallway art I found at my school last week. &nbsp;This art was done by a Grade 1 class with their Grade 6 buddies. &nbsp; CLICK HERE to go to the original tutorial. &nbsp;It&#8217;s super easy and really effective. Thanks for stopping by today!</p>

<p>Aren&#8217;t they cute?????? Yeah, I now that I&#8217;m a few days late with this one. But this is how my students wrapped their presents to their parents this year. I know these have been all over pinterest in the last year.  But I made my own template. and it&#8217;s free!!!! CLICK HERE to get your &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/paper-bag-reindeer/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Paper Bag Reindeer FREE</span></a></p>

<p>Here&#8217;s some more hallway art I found around the school this week. &nbsp;This was made by a Grade 2 class. &nbsp;All you need is blue construction paper, white paint, a sharpie, and maybe a bit of yellow paint for the moon. Paint the ground paint the tree Thumbprint owls Add falling snow Add moon let &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/quick-and-easy-snowy-winter-owls/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Quick and Easy Snowy

<p>&nbsp;Here&#8217;s a super cute, and easy to prep activity for the last week of school this December. &nbsp; My Grade two &nbsp;class were able to do the coloring, cutting and gluing activities very easily, and I twisted the arms and legs for them. &nbsp;It would be an easier activity with older students.&nbsp; And just look &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/super-cute-and-super-quick-santas/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about

<p>  We are learning about birds in my classroom. I have a great new unit in my store about birds that we are working through  CLICK HERE  to check it out. Here&#8217;s a shot of my current bulletin board.   I apologize for the fuzzy picture.  There are some closeups below. We used the directions from &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/winter-cardinal-art-and-science-unit/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Winter Cardinal Art and

<p>I just thought I&#8217;d share some Remembrance Day art from the walls at school with you today! &nbsp;The bottom photo is done by a cute Kindergarten student. &nbsp;Her message really resonated with me, &#8220;Peace is when I look at the sun.&#8221; &nbsp;I hope you can all see the sun today! &nbsp; Thanks for stopping by &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/peace-is-when-i-look-at-sun/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Peace i

<p>Here&#8217;s a little peek of the artwork that I found around the hallways at my school this week. This is such an adorable activity and apparently, super easy and quick. I can&#8217;t wait to try it out next year. &nbsp;The teacher who did this activity found it on Pinterest. She hasn&#8217;t posted it up yet, &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/from-hallways/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about From the Hallways&#8230;</span></

<p>I found this adorable witch painting idea from Art Proejcts for Kids. I&#8217;m sorry that it took me so long to get these posted.&nbsp; I actually need to take them down and put up my Remembrance Day art now.&nbsp; I&#8217;m only a week or so behind right? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Here&#8217;s a closeup of a &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/colourful-witches/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Colourful Witches</span></a></p>

<p>Last week we had a lot of fun painting these tiny little pumpkins that my colleague picked up for the kids. &nbsp; &nbsp; I found the idea on pinterest.&nbsp;&nbsp; I changed the eyes to these enormous googly eyes that I found in my stash and painted the pumpkins with acrylic paint and voila!!!! &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/minions-minions-minions/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Minions, minions, minions

<p>&nbsp; Happy Earth Day everyone.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a quick post about a little mural we made last year. &nbsp; Check out this post here on how we made this Earth-Friendly globe.</p>

<p>I really enjoyed this simple art project.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The original idea comes from Gail Bartel. You may know her as &#8216;That Artist Woman&#8217;.&nbsp; Hop on over and check out her fabulous blog and her step-by-step instructions on how to make these cute families. &nbsp; I used some grey card stock that I had lying around.&nbsp; I &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/snowmen-families/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">a

<p>Well if you&#8217;re like me, today is your last teaching day of 2012. I thought I&#8217;d post up some art from the hallways of my school. I found these amazing, patterned Santas in front of the Grade 6 classroom, and knew I needed to share them.&nbsp; Enjoy! &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Here&#8217;s a super easy and really effective Christmas wreath. You will need green construction paper&nbsp;in a variety of green colours. You can die cut them in leaf shapes like I did, but if you don&#8217;t have access to a die cutter, you can use leaf tracers, or punches, whatever you have around. Sometimes &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/quick-and-easy-wreath/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Quick and