Pottery Ideas

Fun pottery

This website has some elaborate stuff, but these I think I could do!

Kinda funny lol

Could be easy...

Really cute and  creative!

smart!

Looks easy enough, cute.

The dots are easy, but take concentration.

Simple, clean, cute

Crayon shavings

Crayon Shaving hearts ! This could be a fun Valentine's Day craft, or you could do different shapes for different holidays/ seasons. You basically get crayon shavings, put them between wax paper, and iron it to melt it and it sticks together, I assume! Then you can make it a card, or punch a hole in it and hang it up from the ceiling, makes for excellent art! So fun! Wish I could bring an ironing board to school. lol

Outdoors

Make your own sidewalk paint
Cold water
Cornstarch
Food coloring (not too much or it stains the sidewalk)
Paintbrushes

Snail

This is where the idea came from.

Craft supplies you will need:

• Paper plate
• Tissue paper
• Construction paper/Cardboard (+ color it in)
• Glue
• Black marker
• Googly Eye
• Scissor
• Glue

Craft instructions:

Have the children draw a spiral on the paper plate (the bottom of the plate)

Have the children cut the tissue paper into square and rectangle pieces.

Then, have the children draw and then cut out a snail’s body from construction paper.

Next, have the children glue the tissue paper to the snail’s shell (paper plate).

Once done, have the children glue the paper plate (shell) to the snail’s body.

Lastly, have the children glue on the googly eye.

And, voila, the children now have their very own Paper Plate Snail!

Food Fun

Milk Art - This doesn't really make sense to me how it would not just be liquidy, or what to do with it after you smear it but man it sure is pretty!!

Puffy Paint

Ghost Cookies! - These would be for the kids, not necessarily for them to make haha.

I got this idea from Mrs. Kell one of the K4 teachers at my school. This is the best picture I could find, but hers were cuter.

You need:

mini vanilla wafers

chocolate frosting

Hershey chocolate kisses

pretzel sticks

You put frosting on the bottom of the vanilla wafer and stick a chocolate kiss on there.

Then you put a tiny bit of frosting on the top of the wafer and put a broken piece of pretzel for the top.

Really cute and yummy!

Recipes I won't make by myself:

Flubber

Corn Starch Paint - Make your own fingerpaint?

Winter Ideas

Snow paint - Idea from here :)

Christmas lights- fingerprints

Autumn Ideas

This website has given me some fun fall ideas, and has many things for kids to do. 

Leaf Rubbing

Big Leaf Painting

Thanksgiving Turkey - I obviously am not gunna buy all this felt for 20 something kids, but I was thinking we could do this with construction paper. My kindergarten and first graders love to cut and glue. The template is here and could easily be used on colored paper!

Paper Pumpkins - They call this easy but it looks kinda complicated. I'd have to make my own first before deciding to try it with my kids.

Corn - paint or glue

paint with q-tips

or punch holes from construction paper and glue the holes on the corn

TP roll tree - looks easy enough!

Leaf People- how cute is this?!

Fall Button Branch

Tree - this would take a LOT of paint...

Family Tree - adorable... and kids love talking about their families!

pumpkin - this looks hard to glue on paper...

Leaf Animals - This is cute but may be harder than it looks.

TP roll turkey - this looks fun! I think kids would love it. Gluing onto the TP roll could be hard, as well as coming across enough TP rolls.