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No prep! This directed drawing pack guides students through an easy six-step process of creating ten summer items, and even a "create your own" page for students to design their own directed drawing activity to share with a friend or partner.

Directed drawing activities feature simple shapes and lines, and include clear, step-by-step numerical instructions for students to follow. You can also encourage students to add their own creative touches!

Directed Drawing Activities:

1. Beach balls
2. Beach buckets
3. Fish
4. Flip flops
5. Ice cream
6. Palm Trees
7. Sandcastles
8. Shells
9. Sunglasses
10. Sun
11. Create your own

Benefits of Directed Drawing

Fine Motor Skills: Directed drawing nurtures fine motor skills, essential for writing and other dexterous tasks. As students grasp and manipulate drawing tools, their hand-eye coordination and muscle control refine.
Creativity: Directed drawing sparks imagination and creativity. Students are encouraged to explore colors, shapes, and patterns - and to add their own unique touches to each creation!

Writing Foundations: Directed drawing lays the groundwork for writing and also improves handwriting skills. Students learn to follow visual instructions, recognize and manipulate shapes, and maintain consistent pencil strokes – all essential elements of handwriting!

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!

Introduce the timeless story of the Nativity into your classroom with our beautifully designed "Christian Christmas Nativity Headband Crowns". Crafted with love and attention to detail, these festive crafts merge the essence of Christmas with educational fun, offering a unique way to celebrate this joyous season.

Key Features:

• Nativity Story Inspired: Each piece is infused with elements from the Nativity, allowing children to explore the birth of Jesus in a creative and engaging way. From Mary and Joseph to the Star of Bethlehem, our designs help bring the Christmas story to life.
• Creative Engagement: Spark creativity and hands-on learning with crafts that are perfect for storytelling, role-playing, and holiday celebrations. Aligned with the Ontario curriculum, these activities offer a holistic approach to learning, blending artistic expression with religious education.
• Simple Assembly: Designed with the classroom in mind, our crafts are easy to assemble, ensuring a fun and stress-free experience for both teachers and students.

Celebrate the joy of Christmas while enriching your students' understanding of the Nativity story. Perfect for classroom activities, holiday parties, or Sunday school sessions, these crowns, hats, and headbands make the season memorable and educational.

These five colorful posters each contain an inspirational quote about art and creativity. Perfect for the art room or any classroom where you want to inspire children to think creatively.

Quotes include: ❤ “Every child is an artist.” - Pablo Picasso ❤ “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Albert Einstein ❤ “I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincant Van Gogh ❤ “The painting has a life of its own.” – Jackson Pollock ❤ “Everything has beauty, but not everybody sees it.” – Andy Worhol

This student-tested activity teaches about Mondrian's abstract art as well as about the artist Mondrian and art vocabulary.

This resource includes:

- Teacher’s guide for 3 - 45-minute lesson

- 4 worksheets

- 2 Mondrian frames

- A presentation on the work of Piet Mondrian

- Background information on Piet Mondrian

- 2 posters

- 2 options the play the tetris game

- Awards and medals

Skills Developed in this lesson:

- Learn art vocabulary; Mondrian life and work; abstract art.

- Fine motor skills

- Learn art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.

- Teamwork skills

Bright Number Posters with Ten Frames - Numbers 0-20 | Vibrant Classroom Decor

Enhance your classroom’s learning environment with our Bright Number Posters featuring Ten Frames, designed to make number recognition and early math skills engaging and visually appealing. Perfect for teachers and parents alike, these posters provide a colorful and effective way to teach numbers 0-20.

Features:

• Bright & Vibrant Design: Each poster boasts a lively, eye-catching design with bold colors that instantly capture students' attention and bring energy to your classroom decor. The playful yet clear visuals make learning numbers a fun and enjoyable experience.
• Comprehensive Range: Includes numbers 0-20, each with its own dedicated poster. This ensures that children get a detailed and focused look at each number, helping to reinforce their understanding and recognition.
• Ten Frame Visualization: Each number poster features a ten frame that visually demonstrates the quantity associated with each number. This helps students grasp fundamental math concepts such as counting, addition, and subtraction, and strengthens their numerical understanding.
• Educational & Interactive: Designed to support visual learning and interactive teaching methods. The ten frames provide a practical, hands-on tool for teaching basic arithmetic and number sense in a way that’s easy for young learners to grasp.
• High-Quality Materials: Printed on durable, high-quality cardstock, these posters are built to withstand the hustle and bustle of a busy classroom. The vibrant colors and clear graphics ensure that they remain engaging and legible over time.
• Easy to Hang: Each poster is perfectly sized for easy display on classroom walls, bulletin boards, or learning centers. They come with pre-punched holes for hanging or can be easily framed to add a polished touch to your decor.
• Versatile Use: Ideal for both classroom settings and home learning environments. Whether you're a teacher, a homeschooler, or a parent, these posters are a fantastic resource for reinforcing number concepts and brightening up your learning space.

Bring color and clarity to your number lessons with our Bright Number Posters featuring Ten Frames. These vibrant and educational tools are sure to inspire and engage young learners, making number recognition and math practice an exciting part of their day. Order yours today and transform your classroom into a dynamic and interactive learning space!

These mixed media projects inspired by the contemporary artist Curtis Talwst Santiago will inspire your students to explore their creativity, create texture, and celebrate Black History Month.  This lesson is designed for 2nd - 5th grade students but can easily be adapted for middle school students.  

This lesson is highly engaging, cross-curricular, and uses a wide variety of media to create 6 different projects.  Additional ideas for variation are included. Set up stations and let your students choose a project or rotate through and complete several while exploring texture and learning about contemporary artist Curtis Talwst Santiago and Black History Month. 

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 17 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 6 projects
• Suggestions for project variations 
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Information on artist Curtis Talwst Santiago
• Black History Month fact sheet
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd - 5th grades
• Suggestions for setting up centers
• Tips for using alternative materials

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Saddle up for a Valentine's Day celebration with our Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack! This delightful pack features 8 pages of charming designs centered around classic cowboy elements such as boots, hats, and hearts, perfect for spreading love and cheer in the Wild West style.

Inside, you'll find intricately detailed illustrations of cowboy boots adorned with hearts, hats with romantic embellishments, and heart-shaped lassos to capture your creativity. Each page is designed with care to provide hours of relaxing and enjoyable coloring experience for both kids and adults alike.

Whether you're a seasoned cowpoke or a greenhorn in the coloring world, our

Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack offers something for everyone. Let your imagination roam free as you bring these Western-themed designs to life with your favorite colors and shades.

So round up your crayons, grab your spurs, and get ready to create some heartwarming masterpieces with our Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack. It's sure to be a rootin' tootin' good time for all!

Includes a PDF pack of 8 pages. Some include sayings such as Happy Valentine's Day and Howdy Valentine. There are also options without words.

Engage Your Students with a Fun, NO-PREP Robot Art Lesson!

Looking for an easy, engaging, and cross-curricular art activity? This robot-themed lesson combines creativity with literacy, making it perfect for art integration, sub plans, or mini-lessons. Students will create unique robot art pieces that not only develop artistic skills but also enhance key literacy competencies. Plus, their creations will make a fantastic hallway or classroom display!

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• Minimal prep—just print the student pages and gather a few simple materials.
• Ideal for substitute plans, emergency lessons, homeschooling, or quick, effective mini-lessons.
• Designed to captivate even the most reluctant learners with a roll-and-draw game element that encourages creativity.
• Includes hand-drawn resources to take the pressure off perfection, helping students feel confident and engaged.

What’s Included:

• Non-editable PDF
• Roll-and-draw game sheet
• Reflection sheets
• Coloring page
• Finished example
• Writing activities

Why Hand-Drawn Matters:
Students often feel intimidated by perfect, digitally created examples. Hand-drawn elements help reduce anxiety and make the activity approachable for all skill levels. By focusing on effort and creativity rather than perfection, this resource inspires students to take risks and enjoy the process.

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Whether you’re planning for the week ahead or preparing for the unexpected, this robot art activity is a must-have addition to your teaching toolkit.

Unleash Kid's Inner Artist: Draw 15 Amazing Animals!

Join us on a fun adventure to create 15 incredible animals! This easy-to-follow guide uses simple shapes to break down each drawing into 7 manageable steps.

Here's what you'll get:

• Step-by-step instructions: We'll start with basic shapes and gradually add details, making drawing fun and achievable.
• 15 unique animals: Unleash kid's creativity with a variety of creatures, from cuddly cats to funny a happy rooster.
• Confidence boost: By the final step, kid'll be drawing and coloring the favorite animals independently, feeling proud of themself artistic skills!

Get ready to be surprised by what they can create!

This fabulous and engaging K-2 activity will gradually allow young learners to enjoy drawing and creating fantastic art pieces. Step-by-step instructions allow each student to create classroom materials drawings during whole group instruction or independent learning time. Students can then add vocabulary, sentences, or a short idea to describe their object. This fun and exciting activity grows as students grow throughout the year.

I create a practice art notebook for students where each piece gets glued into their book as they develop mastery. The added creative writing element means they learn to talk about art in a French too!

How to prepare this resource:

Make a copy of each page and distribute to students. You can arrange to have them all done in a booklet form or, as I do, I make copies at the beginning of the year and add pages to a ‘cahier d’art’ for students to work on at their own pace once we have done a few as a group.

Students love the independence of working on the art piece on their own and as language production develops, they even go back to their first drawings to add details and sentences to describe their work!

When to use this resource in the classroom:

These activities can be used from the first week of school. Following instructions, mastering step-by-step directions can start at any time during the school year. Students will love using these pages as their confidence grows as each step shows dotted line additions that add a version of what each step looks like.

As language develops during the year, students can add details, descriptions, or story starters to prompt creative writing.

I hope your students enjoy learning to draw these classroom materials!

Appropriate audience:

I use these posters in my French Immersion classroom with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students. I feel confident that they could be used for any grade from K-6

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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 Kindergarten to Grade Three 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.

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Who doesn't love to be recognized for their strengths?! This packet contains 13 colorful mini art awards that target the seven elements of art and six other awards (behavior management and art-related**)**.

Using awards with your students is a great behavior management tool. They can be used immediately and are proven to be motivational!

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Unlock your child's artistic potential with "How To Draw Robots For Kids!" This engaging and interactive guide is designed to teach children aged 8-12 how to draw amazing robots using simple grids and easy-to-follow steps. Perfect for young artists and robot enthusiasts, this book offers over 60 exciting robot designs that provide hours of creative fun.

Why Choose Our Book?

Interactive Learning: The grid method breaks down complex images into manageable parts, helping kids understand proportions and shapes easily.

Variety of Designs: From friendly robot helpers to powerful warriors, there's a wide range of designs to inspire every child.

Step-by-Step Instructions: Clear and concise steps make drawing easy for beginners and more advanced young artists.

Boosts Creativity: Encourages children to explore their imagination and develop their unique drawing style.

Fun and Educational: Combines creativity with learning, making drawing robots a fun and educational experience.

This book is an excellent tool for parents, teachers, and caregivers looking to inspire creativity and artistic growth in children. Whether your child is just starting to draw or looking to improve their skills, "How To Draw Robots For Kids" provides a comprehensive and enjoyable drawing experience.

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Farm Animals BARN Craft Activity, for Bulletin Board or Hallway Art. Color & draw, cut, and paste! Great for summer, NO PREP substitute plans, etc.

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Are you looking for engaging March Spring Bulletin Board Craft Activities for your students? This Flower Craft is the perfect one for your students! This craft is great for spring or March bulletin boards.

Display the completed crafts proudly on bulletin boards, hallways, or doors—a showcase for the entire school community.

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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Our Comprehensive Educational Bundle!

Unlock the rich history and vibrant culture of Hispanic heritage with our Spanish Heritage Month Bundle. This all-inclusive Hispanic Culture Educational Bundle is designed to engage students with a variety of Hispanic Heritage Month Activities and Latino Culture Classroom Resources. Perfect for educators looking to enrich their curriculum with Hispanic Heritage Lesson Plans and Bilingual Education Materials.

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Dive into the enchanting world of learning and creativity with our collection of 50 printable coloring sheets featuring adorable animals from A to Z! Tailored specifically for kindergarten and 1st to 2nd-grade levels, these delightful coloring pages are designed to engage young minds while enhancing their fine motor skills, cognitive development, and alphabet familiarity.

Each sheet introduces a lovable creature corresponding to a letter of the alphabet, creating an engaging and educational experience for young learners. From the charming antics of an amiable armadillo to the zany adventures of a zebra, children will be captivated by the delightful illustrations that bring each character to life.

Our coloring sheets are not just about filling in the lines; they offer a multi-sensory journey where children can explore the diversity of the animal kingdom .

Key Features:

Adorable Animals: Meet a menagerie of charming creatures, each representing a letter of the alphabet. From A for Antelope to Z for Zebra, the collection is a delightful ABC adventure.

Educational Fun: Combine the joy of coloring with valuable educational content. Foster letter recognition, language development, and fine motor skills through engaging and age-appropriate activities.

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Designed for Early Learners: Thoughtfully crafted with the developmental needs of kindergarten and 1st to 2nd-grade students in mind, these coloring sheets strike the perfect balance between fun and education.

Creative Expression: Encourage artistic expression as children bring these charming characters to life with their own choice of colors, fostering creativity and imagination.

Embark on an educational journey filled with laughter, learning, and the joy of discovery with our A to Z Coloring Adventure! Ideal for classrooms, homeschooling, or simply quality family time, these printables promise hours of delightful engagement for young learners.

Free Thanksgiving Turkey Coloring Activity – Hand-Drawn and Engaging for Students!

Celebrate Thanksgiving with this fun and free turkey coloring activity! Perfect for classrooms or home use, this hand-drawn turkey artwork allows students to express their creativity while learning about the Thanksgiving holiday. Designed to captivate and entertain, this activity is ideal for developing fine motor skills, fostering creativity, and encouraging artistic expression. Whether as part of a holiday lesson or a standalone craft, this free Thanksgiving coloring activity will keep students excited and involved.

Explore the essence of spring with these captivating drawing ideas! Our curated collection of spring-themed drawing prompts is perfect for students seeking creative inspiration. From blooming flowers to lively landscapes, each idea embodies the vibrancy and beauty of the season. Dive into a world of artistic possibilities as students sketch the very essence of spring, bringing to life its colors, textures, and themes. Whether it's a fresh bouquet of flowers, a sun-dappled garden, or a rain-kissed meadow, these drawing ideas will ignite imagination and showcase the spirit of spring. Ideal for artists of all levels, these prompts encourage artistic growth and exploration. Discover the joy of capturing nature's renewal on paper and let your creativity blossom this season!

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Students are given 10 elements to add to their work of art in order. Even though the requirements are the same each piece is unique! Since there is no "right way" to add some of the elements it is a confidence booster! Perfect for older kids to independently work on, or for younger students to follow along with the teacher. Also could be used for sub plan! Includes 3 different task card sets.

Welcome to the ultimate Pi day party with our Fun Collections Coloring Pages & Games Bundle at The Students Palace!

Prepare for a slice of excitement as you explore this delightful collection of activities, perfect for sparking creativity and laughter in classrooms and homes alike.

Inside this bundle, you'll find a delicious assortment of engaging content, including:

• Pi Day Coloring Pages
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Whether you're an educator looking to add some pi to your lessons or a parent seeking engaging activities for your little ones, our Coloring Pages & Games Bundle is the perfect recipe for fun and learning.

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