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Remembrance Day Huichol Yarn Painting on Nov 3, 2009 in Remembrance Day kids activities Well I hope everyone had an awesome Halloween...we sure did! Now for the next project...On November 11th we celebrate Remembrance Day in Canada and our art projects center on this theme. The poppy is a symbol of Remembrance Day in Canada and it is o...

Spooky Interactive Portraits on Oct 26, 2009 in halloween kids painting kids activities Here are some spooky interactive portraits I'm doing with Grade 6 this year.Same picture just able to shift the eyes and mouth with pull tabs...similar to the mechanisms in pop-up books.They are quite easy to do once you get the hang of the mechanism...

Glue Resist Skeletons on Oct 22, 2009 in halloween kids painting kids activities Earlier this year I did a glue resist dinosaur with Kindergarten. I thought it would make an interesting project for Halloween so here it is.Materials Required:heavy paper like posterboard or watercolorwhite gluetempera paintlarge round coin or bottl...

Monster Portraits on Oct 18, 2009 in halloween kids painting kids activities I wanted to do a Monster portrait similar to the Owl one I did last year.Using paper mache I enhanced the eyes and nose and then using a variety of paper and painting techniques, created the material for the rest of the monster.Here's the how to just...

Paper Fold Witch on Oct 14, 2009 in halloween kids activities Well I'm back after an extra long Thanksgiving break.....next up Halloween so we better get a few scary art projects up on the blog.This is a paper fold witch my son did last year in Grade 3. It's got a certain charm to it so I thought I'd post it th...

A Tale of Two Turkeys: Turkey #2 Salt Dough on Oct 5, 2009 in fall Thanksgiving kids activities Here is Turkey #2. A lot quicker than clay and just as charming.These are salt dough turkeys that Grade 4 completed.Materials Required:salt dough, see recipe at end of materials listpaper cliprolling pindull knifewaterwhole cloves (optional)ovenacryl...

A Tale of Two Turkeys: Turkey #1 Clay Plates on Oct 3, 2009 in clay fall Thanksgiving kids activities We have been really busy at school. Thanksgiving is in 10 days so we are trying to get all our seasonal arts and crafts projects finished.Grade 1 did these adorable Turkey plates this year. I will give the how to.....if you don't have access to a kil...