Less than $5 2nd Grade Arts & Music Activities

Right this way to the circus! Students explore five circus scenes with top composer Johann Sebastian Bach! These open SEL activities invite students to color their listening experience while hearing the selected music. Each featured piece of music has a unique circus scene to color and expressive keywords to choose from.

Learning Objectives

• increased knowledge of popular composers
• familiarity with a variety of musical periods
• ability to recognize, and engage with, popular pieces of music
• social-emotional exploration of feelings and moods within the music
• creative expression by choosing colors related to a musical theme

You'll find five unique circus scenes for students to explore: juggling, unicycle, animal friends, trapeze artist, and a clown. Students choose from emojis and fun circus-themed images to color. There are no wrong answers!

Featured Classical Music

1. Toccata and Fugue
2. Fantasia and Fugue
3. Italian Concerto
4. Cello Suite no. 1
5. Magnificat

These circus-themed listening activities are easy to implement - just print and play! The music is readily available on YouTube and your favorite streaming services. No musical training is required making these great for sub plans and summer send-home packets!

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

Doodling is great fun, but it also provides many developmental benefits for children. Doodling helps kids of all ages to develop and refine their fine motor skills, which is essential for writing, cutting and many other activities that children will do throughout their lives. In addition, doodling encourages visual analysis, increases the ability to concentrate, and boosts creative thinking. And of course, it’s just plain fun!

This packet includes 50 pages of doodle starters to inspire children.

Some ways to use these pages:

Give children a doodle page when they need a brain break.

Print just the pages you want to enhance a classroom theme or concept that you are studying.

Have the pages available for students who finish a lesson early.

Put them in your sub tub.

Use these in your “calming corner” for children who need help with self-regulation

This engaging activity allows students to create personalized Winter theme name puzzles while practicing fine motor skills with scissor cutting. these puzzles are a fun and educational addition to your autumn classroom activities. making it easy for kids to spell out their names (2-12 characters).

Teachers can customize and print, offering a fun and educational autumn project that enhances letter recognition, sequencing, and creativity. Ideal for fall-themed lessons, bulletin boards, or a festive classroom display!

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What's Included :

• PAGE : 22 PAGES
• FILES : PPTX
• SIZE : 11'' x 8.5''

Dive into the enchanting world of Gustav Klimt with our captivating Elementary art lesson! Designed for elementary students, this student-tested resource is not only educational but also a whole lot of fun.

Inspired by the iconic style of Gustav Klimt, this activity provides a unique opportunity for students to explore the artist's techniques while creating their own masterpieces. As they delve into Klimt's mesmerizing artistry, students will develop fine motor skills and unleash their creativity engagingly and enjoyably.

With step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow guidelines, this resource makes it simple for teachers to implement the activity in their classrooms. Whether used as a stand-alone art project or integrated into a larger unit on Gustav Klimt, this activity is sure to captivate students and spark their imaginations.

But don't just take our word for it—our students absolutely loved this Fall  Art Activity, and we know yours will too! So why wait? Bring the magic of Gustav Klimt into your classroom this fall and watch as your students' creativity blossoms like the leaves on a tree.

Explore the beauty of fall with our Gustav Klimt-inspired art activity—it's an educational adventure your students won't soon forget!

This resource includes:

• Teacher’s guide for a 2- 45-minute lesson
• Step by step on how to do the sculpture
• PPT Presentation with 4 slides
• 1 worksheet

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Spark creativity and strengthen fine motor skills with these fun and engaging Winter Themed Play Dough Mats, perfect for young learners!

Contents:
This Winter Themed Play Dough Mats set includes a variety of winter-themed objects for students to create using play dough. Each mat features an easy-to-follow "I Can" statement at the bottom, helping students stay focused and confident in their activity. The mats show winter objects like mittens, snowflakes, and more, giving children a clear visual of what they’re creating in the center of each mat. These mats are designed to improve fine motor skills, as students roll, pinch, and shape play dough to match the images. The 8.5x11 mats come in color or black and white, allowing teachers to print them out and laminate them for reuse.

How the Product is Used:
Teachers simply print the 8.5x11 mats, laminate them if desired, and provide students with play dough. Students use the play dough to craft winter objects shown in the center of each mat, following the visual guide. The "I Can" statement encourages independence and self-directed learning as students enjoy this hands-on activity.

Why You’ll Love This Product:
Teachers will appreciate how this activity engages students while enhancing fine motor development. It's perfect for keeping little hands busy and strengthening important pre-writing skills. These mats are an excellent indoor winter activity that keeps students learning while they play, and they can be used again and again. Students love shaping the play dough into fun winter-themed objects, making this both a creative and sensory-rich experience.

Features:

• Multiple winter-themed play dough mats with seasonal objects like snowflakes, mittens, and more.
• Encouraging "I Can" statements on each mat to promote confidence and independence.
• Perfect for fine motor skill development through play.
• Comes in 8.5x11 format, ideal for easy printing.
• Available in both color and black & white versions for flexibility in printing.

How This Product Can Be Used in the Classroom or Other Educational Settings:

1. Winter-themed centers: A fun seasonal addition to your classroom learning centers.
2. Sensory play activities: A tactile experience that helps students with motor skill development.
3. Small group stations: Perfect for small groups working independently or with guided instruction.
4. Early finisher activities: An engaging, hands-on option for students who finish their work early.
5. Homeschool settings: A ready-to-print resource that promotes learning through play and creativity.

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Color Word Unit Craft Book! Perfect pairing to our daily color word worksheets to reinforce the color word concepts. Students can color or use construction paper to glue and tear small pieces to work on those fine motor skills!

This activity is easy to pair with my Color Word Poems and Color Word Sheets to round out your perfect intro to teaching color words to your kindergarten or first grade class.

Color Word Poems

Color Word Sheets

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Geometry Christmas booklet to transform 2D geometry shapes into Christmas icons.

Engage your students and prepare all the cutting, pasting and coloring stationery!

What's Covered?

Change the circle, square, rectangle & triangle to join Christmas and be festive! Draw and color each shape [an exemplary guide is attached of what the shapes could be transformed to].

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Don't forget to share with me how it went with your little ones. I hope it was useful in your classroom.

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This fun and engaging pack of Mardi Gras Writing Prompts is great for Mardi Gras activities and Mardi Gras Craftivity. These Shrove Tuesday writing crafts are perfect for Grades 1 to 5.

Your students can also use these mask templates to make their adorable Mardi Gras Mask and put them on like that.

Includes:

▪︎ 6 different Mardi Gras Writing Prompts (inclusive of Acrostic Poem writing and five senses writing)

▪︎2 different Mardi Gras masks templates

▪︎Mardi Gras hat template

▪︎A blank mask template for your kiddos to design their own masks.

Just print, color, make and write.

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These one-day Christmas projects are perfect for the days leading up to winter break. With 5 different projects plus numerous variations, there are so many choices! Set up centers for students, let them choose a project (or 2), or pick the project that goes with the materials you want to use.

The projects all feature holiday trees but can be adapted for use as a non-holiday project. Projects are hands-on, engaging, and cross-curricular - fantastic for this time of year when you do not want to start another big project before the break.

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 13 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 5 projects
• Multiple project variations ideas
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Ideas for assessments
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd-5th grades
• Project Reflection Questions for reflection and discussion

This lesson includes TEKS (if you are in Texas) and National Core Arts Standards for 2nd-5th grades. These projects use a variety of different materials and techniques to create artwork. These types of projects help develop your students' fine motor skills, sequencing, and eye-hand coordination.

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Holiday Ornaments

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Build a solid Biblical foundation for Kids this Easter with this Christian Easter Coloring Pages resource. It is filled with Christ-centered coloring pages for your classroom, Sunday school or homeschool.

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What makes this unique? ✝---->

• Words are directly from scripture/ All pictures include a Bible verse.

• Pictures are on full pages, large enough for little and big kids to enjoy.

• Several "cross" image options: Jesus with the cross and an empty cross

• Comprehensive: 10 coloring pages from The Holy Week/Passion Week:

✨Palm Sunday, The Last Supper, The Garden, The Cross, and The
Resurrection!✨

Use these as you teach the Story of Easter and share the Good News with your children and students!

Ideas for Use:

• Print pages individually, for each day of Holy Week
• Print all the pages and staple them together for a nice little coloring book.
• Use these for centers, take home, quiet time or anytime!

If you are looking for lessons and activities for a Christ filled Easter/Holy Week, you may like my best-selling Holy Week Bible Lessons Pack!!

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Spark Your Imagination in Fairyland!

This enchanting coloring book whisks you away to a magical land filled with 25 delightful fairies and their fantastical world!

• Perfect for Kindergarteners: Large, simple illustrations with thick outlines are ideal for little hands to color.
• Hours of Fun: 25 unique coloring pages provide hours of creative coloring enjoyment.

Let your little artist explore their creativity and bring Fairyland to life, one vibrant color at a time!

Headbands

2 French designs and 2 English designs for the K-3 classroom

Making these fun and simple headbands are always a HIT with the littles. A quick no prep activity is just what every teacher needs. Copy, cut and paste. Students can wear these all day on the day of the Solar Eclipse or on the day after. A little sweet tongue in cheek headband!

How to use this:

Set it out as a self-guided activity with materials, pencils, glue sticks, and scissors for students to use.

Create the headbands as a whole class activity and watch as students help each other measure the headbands together.

Teacher assisted for the littles, and you can easily cut and glue (or staple if that is easier).

What's included in this resource:

-1 head band design with 'J'ai survecu l'eclipse solaire 2024"

-1 head band design with 'Je suis sain et sauf apres l'eclipse solaire 2024'

-1 head band design with 'I survived the Solar Eclipse 2024"

-1 head band design with 'I mark myself safe from Solar Eclipse 2024'

Directions:

-Colour the sun rays yellow or leave them white

-Simply cut along the dotted line around the sun rays, then cut the strips for attaching around the child’s head.

-glue each strip to either side of the sun/eclipse shape

What grade level is appropriate?

I personally feel that this resource is ideal for any students from K-2 although those in Grade 3 may love these headbands too!

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What grade level:

I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

If you love this resource:

***1. French SOR Sound Cards

***2. French Decodable Reading

***3. Roles et Responsabilites

***4. French Number Line

***5. French Attention Grabbers

***6. French Speaking Passport

***7. French Pyramid Reading

Some of the Benefits of this resource:

1. Students use hands on materials
2. Boost confidence in French language acquisition with whole group, small group, independent work, and one-to-one instruction using the same resource
3. Fun headband that they can wear around school and at home
4. Students grow in independence at their own pace
5. Reinforce the fun and excitement of this once in a lifetime opportunity
6. Social wellness and personal autonomy in using French in the classroom
7. Scaffold and support language acquisition, oral communication, and writing skills
8. Headbands are a 100% successful activity at this age group!

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This is a super fun, elephant toothpaste for kids easy science experiment! It is a great way to talk about liquids, gases, and chemical reactions! I use it when we are learning about states of matter. There are directions for the experiment as well as recording sheets.

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Summer is finally here! It is such a great time to make memories with the kiddos in your life and have SO much fun. My kids love to create, play, and imagine all summer long.

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Double-sided Holiday Christmas Greetings Cards Craft for Coloring!
Set of 12 different, detailed designs (see thumbnails or preview for all sides).
Print, color, cut, and fold!

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Here is a free coloring page from inside our first hard-copy workbook – a mandala! Mandalas provide a way to relax and find focus. Enjoy our free printable and check out our workbook and other products here on TeachShare or on our website.

Make Fall/Halloween Season learning fun with these engaging, hands-on Fall/Halloween Friendly Monster Build Your Own puppet & learning activities! This packet includes 13 pages of Fall/Halloween Season Friendly Monster learning activity templates and their perfect for exploring and building creativity. It is great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in discovering the world of Fall/Halloween Friendly Monster Activities using I Spy, Build Your Own Monster puppet, color by number, crown making, word searches, and coloring pages. Students will love exploring together by using their critical & problem solving skills through these fun Fall/Halloween Friendly Monster activities, and won't even realize how much they're learning! Have fun!

Here's what you'll get:

• 1 Friendly Monster Booklet Cover Printable
• 1 Friendly Monster I Spy-Count & Record Number Printable
• 1 Friendly Monster Color By Number Printable
• 1 Friendly Monster Black & White Crown Printable
• 1 Friendly Monster Color Crown Printable
• 1 Friendly Monster Build My Own Puppet Printable
• 1 Friendly Monster Word Search Printable +Answer Key
• 1 Friendly Monster Coloring Page Printable

Your students will love doing all of these Friendly Monster Fall/Halloween season math, craft, coloring, cutting, gluing and reading activities with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be concentrating in their seats, engaged, and exploring various Friendly Monster Fall/Halloween season math, craft, coloring, cutting, gluing and reading activities.

These Friendly Monster Fall/Halloween season activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes 8 Friendly Monster Fall/Halloween season activities to complete. It can be printed in color or black and white. There is a page you will need to color code if you do decide to print in black and white. You will need crayons, markers, pencils, scissors, craft decorations and glue.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, staple together as a booklet or keep separate as worksheets, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class! Great for prek to 2nd grade or a little older for children with special needs!

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Use Your Imagination Cards

Unleash your creativity with our Use Your Imagination Cards! This set of 28 unique pattern cards is perfect for inspiring young artists and encouraging imaginative thinking. Each card presents a different pattern, challenging students to transform it into their own artistic masterpiece. Whether it's a playful animal, a fantastical landscape, or an abstract design, the possibilities are endless!

Key Features:

• 28 Imagination Cards: Each card features a unique pattern, providing endless creative opportunities.
• Versatile Use: Ideal for a calming corner, as a fun early finisher activity, or as a stimulating project in the art room.
• Engaging Activity: Helps develop fine motor skills, creativity, and problem-solving abilities.
• Perfect for All Ages: Suitable for students in Year 3-6, but fun for all ages.
• Easy to Use: Simply choose a card, let your imagination run wild, and start drawing!

Benefits:

• Calming Corner: Incorporate these cards into your classroom’s calming corner to provide a soothing and creative outlet for students needing a break.
• Early Finisher Activity: Keep early finishers engaged with a fun and productive activity that stimulates their imagination and keeps them busy.
• Art Room Essential: A great addition to any art room, encouraging students to think outside the box and create original artwork.

Use Your Imagination Cards are a fantastic resource for promoting creativity and providing a calming, engaging activity for students. Perfect for teachers looking to enhance their classroom’s calming corner, offer enriching early finisher activities, or add a new dimension to their art curriculum. Get your set today and watch your students’ imaginations soar!

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Need a fun back to school bingo activity for primary music? Check this out! It's what I'm going to use for part of my first lesson with my primary music classes.

Give each student a copy and be sure to read through it together as a class so that students know what things they will need to find out about their peers. Then have the students go around and find a person that satisfies each criteria. When everyone is done you can share the answers together to learn a little bit about your students. Enjoy!

The Easter Bunny Craftivity can be used in many different ways. Students can use the KWL chart with an Easter Read Aloud. Eddy and Ester Bunny can be colored, cut, and constructed to display students' charts or creative writing. Included in this product is: Eddy and Ester Bunny Templates, Easter Lined Writing Paper (Large and Smaller Lines included, and KWL chart. Give students a writing prompt and they can write and display their work on Ester or Eddy Bunny! They will love putting these cute bunnies together! These are great hallway displays!

Product Includes:

Girl and Boy Bunny Template

Decorative Lined Paper-Different sizes

KWL Chart to use with any story.

All printables in black and white. Students will love this activity!

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