Using the Accordion Critters as puppets can be great fun! Students will already be tempted to take their critters around the classroom to let the accordion-folded legs fly through the air. Take these spontaneous creative activities to center stage with a puppet theatre play. Continue reading
Now’s the time to bring your vision to life! In order to shoot your animation, you will either need a camera or a tablet with animation software. In this activity, we will be using the stills from our camera to make an animated flipbook! Continue reading
Now that we’ve rung in the New Year, we are excited to share our ideas with you over the next little while. Stay tuned for blog posts in a range of subjects, using tools that you already have in your classroom!
We hope that you’ve enjoyed a year of posts from Little Fingers Big Art. Here’s a recap of 10 of our favorite posts:
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Use jelly on the Light Cube for a great sensory activity!
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Make lucky four leaf clovers for St. Patrick’s Day, coming up in March!
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Combine letters in a Word Mobile to generate literacy creativity in students!
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Check out this neat step-by-step tutorial on how to make 3D wall art!
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Use our Tube Crafts to make a birdfeeder… or critterfeeder!
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Make beautiful tissue paper birds–a great fine motor skills activity!
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Imagine what dinosaurs really looked like with our Collage-A-Saurus and Dinosaur Paper Sheets!
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Turn old doodle paper into wrapping paper for someone’s birthday or for Christmas time!
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This year, the creative folks at Roylco returned to the Annual NAEYC Conference, which was being held in sunny Orlando, Florida! Check out some of our favorite moments captured on our cameras! Continue reading
Thank you to all our wonderful art campers who participated in our 2014 Art Camp! We had a blast! Continue reading
We had the fantastic opportunity to visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener, Ontario and build a pyramid with our R60550 Newspaper Builders! This worked out well for us since the museum was hosting their exhibit of ancient Egypt! Continue reading
Trace your family history with beautiful imagery using our R49133 Apple Family Tree! Continue reading
On a nice sunny day, we went outside to build structures as part of our city development and planning lesson! We dropped a TON of Straws and Connectors on the ground and asked the campers to build around the city roads we made from special rolls of tarmac-like paper. Continue reading
Build ’em up and knock ’em down! Skyscraper Building Cards are a perfect addition to your building play center for kids who love to play architect and Godzilla all in one! Continue reading
Constructa Clips are our versatile building toys–combine recyclable materials using the handy clips, and create anything from vehicles to robots, buildings and more! In this project, we got our campers to contribute to the development of a model neighborhood using simple materials. Continue reading
Let your little engineers create and build a city all their own using simple materials! Continue reading
Last year we made a project similar to this one with an assortment of beads and buttons. This year, we are adding a few more mosaic pieces and stylish buttons to our Big Ideas project to turn it into a beautiful art display! Continue reading
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