Spiders

 

Make these scary hanging spiders by cutting up egg cartons, painting their bodies, gluing on googly eyes, poking through pipe cleaners for legs, and hanging from string.

Valentine's Gift

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

 

Next months is Valentine's Day, and here's a little gift my Year 2 kids made last year for a friend or family member. 

Students coloured and decorated the following template:

Then they poked holes in the heart and attached a glow stick:

 

Stop, Drop and Roll

Artist Kate Hadfield created these fire fighter clip art images that helped me create this poster for our PDHPE unit on 'Safety':

Japanese Theme Ideas

 

Here is a range of visual art ideas for integrated Science/HSIE Japanese unit with Stage 1 students:

Hand-held fans:

 

Ikebana straw paintings:

  

Kimono kids paintings:

 

Zen gardens:

  

Lantern paintings:

 

Calligraphy:

 

 Kimono dolls:

 

Kabuki Masks:

 Fish lanterns:

 Volcanoes:

Bubbles Paintings

Kindy had a great time making paintings out of coloured bubbles.

We made bubble solution using water and detergent, and added food colouring.

The children then used a straw to blow bubbles from the solution and placed their paper over the top to create a bubble pattern on it.

How to Make a Rock Float

How can I make a rock float?


This was a question I posed to my students and here is the answer proposed by one of them:



1. Half fill a container with water.

2. Place the rock in a second, smaller container.

3. Place the smaller container with the rock into the larger container with water.

The rock floats!

Hanging Butterflies

Subject:     Science
Unit:          Life Cycles
Grade:       2

 

How to Make

1. Bend a pipe cleaner in half and curl the ends to make the antennae.


2. Thread beads onto the pipe cleaner from the base, to form the body.

3.  Bend two more pipe cleaners as shown in the image to make the wings.














4. Attach the wings to the body of the butterfly.


5. Attach fishing line to the antennae and hang from a window.