Heart Hands

This is a lovely birthday, Mothers or Father's Day card idea that is really simple to make!




1. Chose two different coloured pieces of paper, and fold one in half.

2. Trace hand , ensuring the index finger and thumb touch the centre crease.

3. Carefully cut out the hand print.

4. Open - you should see a heart shape between the two hands.

5. Paste onto the other piece of paper. Decorate and write message!

Cool Cursive

Check out these cool cursive classroom displays!

To create, fold a piece of paper in half. Write your name next to the centre fold.

 

Cut around the lettering as shown:

Open, and paste onto a different coloured piece of cardboard for classroom display.

 

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:

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.

Personalised Keyrings

We made these keyrings for Christmas gifts for someone significant in our lives:

Aboriginal Art

 

My Prep class loved listening to Aboriginal Dreamtime stories and creating artworks inspired by the stories.

The Rainbow serpents were made by painting a plate and cutting it into a spiral.




The boomerangs were cut from a template and students used coloured match sticks to create patterns on them.

Sensory Recipes

When I worked in Prep, we made a tub of sensory play every day.

The following are some recipes and ideas for dough and goop, that little kids love to stick their little hands into and play with:

Tiddalik

Tiddalik the Frog is an excellent story to use when learning about water conservation. It is also a great Dreamtime story to read to students when teaching them about Aboriginal culture.

There are a couple of different versions, and you can watch one of them here on youtube: 

 

A fun activity Kindergarten undertook after learning about Tiddalik, was this craft activity:

 

Students were provided a frog template photocopied on green cardboard (I found this one in a google search). Then, using a single hole puncher, they punched holes around the outline of the frog. Afterwards, students weaved colourful string in and out of the holes. To add further decoration, they threaded beads onto the string.

Baubles

 

 

DIY baubles for the Christmas tree! This activity encourages fine motor skills development, as well as patience!

And the finished product...........

Patterns Display: Mosaics

 

This is another great fine motor activity for primary students: mosaics.

Students paste coloured squares on top of a black and white template. This can be a great craft activity integrated into Maths lessons when working on patterns.

I laminated these ones as they were displayed on an outdoor wall.

Letter and Number Identification

The following are some ideas/samples of letter and number identification artwork my Kindergarteners completed a couple of years ago (we used Spalding font):

 

The first uses coloured matchsticks to create the neck of a giraffe for the Number One.

 

 For the Number Two, students smeared glitter and glue around the number in this swan template.

 

The Number Three bird was patterned with stars.

 

We used mosaic tiles to create the letter 'C':

 

For the letter 'O', we pasted stickers onto the template.