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Second grade: Printed Note Cards

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 27, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan    Second grade: Letter Writing Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Printed note cards Cost per student: $.20 (brayers can be used forever, though) Materials: Brayers, foam trays, ballpoint pens, pencils, scratch paper, paper or cardstock to print onto, plastic lids or trays, acrylic paint or printing ink (like [...]

First grade: Human Family Handprint Mural

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 27, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         First Grade: Families Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Hand Print Mural Cost per student: $.10 (not including the use of an iron) Materials: Iron, fabric (I found a giant appliquéd globe on a sheet in the trash), fabric crayons, paper, markers, newspaper or towel to iron on [...]

Animals at Holgate Library

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 25, 2010

Puzzle/Tracks at Woodstock Library

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 13, 2010

4/3/10 Update

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 5, 2010

Last trimester… oh my gosh, this year has flown by! Though I can honestly say it is so much fun. I have never woken up and grumbled about having to go in to school this year. In March, I contributed 103 volunteer hours during the school day, and am up to 841 hours for the [...]

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Kindergarten: Corn Packing Peanut Sculptures

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 5, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         Kindergarten: Plants Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Corn Packing Peanut Sculptures Cost per student: Potentially nothing, if you can find someone getting rid of a bag. I picked up my 5 foot tall bag next to a dumpster. Materials: Corn packing peanuts, small bowls for water, water. [...]

Stick Journals are for everyone!

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 5, 2010

This project is appealing to all ages and demographics! The 4th and 5th graders made stick journals since much of what modern people know about Colonial History is from what people of that era wrote down, either formally, in diaries or journals, or in letters to others. The 2nd graders made journals since we were [...]

Third Grade: Life Sized Animals

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 5, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         Third Grade: Measurement Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Life Sized Animals Cost per student: $.10 Materials: Butcher paper, blocks or something to hold the paper down while kids work, color of some sort (we used water color and tempera paints, chalk pastels, and paper scrap collage on [...]


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