This post, from The Art of Education blog, gives some great suggestions for a simple art challenge for the students who might be so inclined. I would extend the topic even further by having the students brainstorm other possible ideas for illustrating an entire page: ladybugs, flowers, holiday candy, cars, etc…
UPDATE 12/1/2020: If you are looking for more holiday ideas, here is my new Winter Holidays Wakelet that I will be continually updating throughout December. I also just posted a S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Through Winter Jamboard that you can access here. One of the creative thinking tools that my students learn is S.C.A.M.P.E.R. It is an acronym … Read more
Rain Deer Orchestra is just a fun site that can easily be differentiated for various music levels. I am not sure why the site designer chose that particular way to spell the title, but it’s the songs that are important. Go to this site, and you can tap on the noses of the reindeer to … Read more
UPDATE 11/28/2020: This link is no longer available. Sorry! This is a neat Java-based site that allows you to design your own snowflake with text. Teachers could have their students create short messages in their snowflakes: a sentence from a book character’s point of view, what they would give the world as a gift, their … Read more
This great post on Byrdseed Gifted, a fabulous resource for higher level thinking ideas, inspired me to come up with more ways to get music into my own classroom. To extend one of Ian’s ideas even further, I would like to use music to communicate some of my expectations. Students seem to forget, sometimes, what they … Read more
I like patterns. This week, I started by sharing some QR Code Countdown Calendars. Yesterday, I chose to share a link to Countdown Calendars. So, today, I will focus once again on QR Codes. I found an article on the Langwitches blog that gave a wonderful idea for using QR codes with art. You should … Read more