Plastica primaria ideas

Save all your cardboard boxes of all shapes and sizes for these awesome kids crafts!

Well, in my 14 years at Zamo we never had rain to contend with during our Celebration of Art festivities... until last night, that is. I must say, that although unusual for San Diego in July, the rain did not dampen the spirit of the event at all:) Attendance was robust and their were tons of smiles to brighten any gloom that drops from the sky may have brought. Again, our incredible classroom teachers and staff were amazing while leading 10 different activities for our community to…

Plastic Bottle Cap Sea Life Mural My students and I collected bottle caps all year and we finally completed our cooperative school mural. This project took some time and each bottle cap was screwed down (to make it a permanent installation). Our sea life theme is beautiful and the students are so proud of their completed art!!!! The time and effort that went into this project was well worth the final completed project!

Waste time... productively!

3d paper cats

I saw a similar project to this online and decided it would be a successful project for my fifth graders. They had to use a cool color on their hands and a warm color on their background. This project went pretty quickly and was a good first project that everyone was successful with. It was a great reminder about overlapping, as well. They loved looking at different examples of optical illusions each week and I shared some of M.C. Escher's work too.

Search and exploring made easy and interesting.

These lanterns were made by kids using industrial sized recycled mayonnaise containers. How cute are they? Time to go to some local restaurants and ask them for big jars!

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