Tag: sammamish
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Cards for Moms
Making gifts for moms has become a ‘thing’ in my classroom now. We make gifts for them almost every day. Kids want to make pictures for their moms. They want to pick flowers for them. They want to wrap pieces of papers as presents for them (the more of them there are and the more…
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Building a House
Yesterday the kids decided that my house burned down and I need a new one. What followed was amazing. They started talking about what my house needs and of course, since they are four boys, the main focus was bathrooms. As of now, my new house has 18 of them (one of them being inside…
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Earth Day Celebration
I would love to invite you all to a free Earth Day event at Artree Preschool this Saturday April 22nd (from 10 to 12). – Create Earth day with us by creating clay pendants and painting a giant upcycled cake. – Plant sunflowers to take home. – Spin a wheel of fortune and win a crafty…
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Building up Seattle
Where do we live? We are opening our doors next week for the first time! I cannot wait to start working with the kids. I have so many things ready to show them and so many ideas what to do! 🙂 The first month is going to be all about us – trying to learn more…
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Driftwood Animals
How much doe it take to encourage kids to see extraordinary in the ordinary objects? Usually not more than a couple of words. In this case, it took even less. I just collected some driftwood and brought it into the classroom. I showed the treasures to the kids and let them play with it. Suddenly the…
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Our Remodel Story
As always, it started with an idea. Two years ago when we were looking for a place to live, we saw this big house on almost an acre of land. As soon as we walked out on the deck a mother deer walked into our garden, followed by two little fawns – and they started…
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Melting Cups
We decided to bring some color to our windows. I have always wanted to try the melting-cups-into-suncatchers idea. And yesterday we finally decided to give it a try. It was super easy and the results were amazing. We used colorful sharpies to decorate our plastic cups. I read that plastic #6 is the best one…
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Art Book review: Beautiful Oops!
There is no right or wrong in art. This is a message I try to teach the kids every time we create an art project. Art is not about right and wrong answers; it is about creativity, fun and self-expression. That is why I love this book so much. Barney Saltzberg did an amazing job…
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Matisse & Valentine
Are you ready for Valentine’s Day? This is a little Valentine dancer project that I did last year with my kids. We decided to use Henri Matisse and his art as our inspiration. How can you make it? It is super simple. You need: black, blue and yellow paper, card (or card stock paper of…
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Printing Valentines with Love
Printing Valentine pictures with love (and a lots of ink) Printing is one of my favorite art techniques. And Styrofoam printing is such a great way to let even three-year-olds experience it – with wonderful results. Sometimes we use new Styrofoam plates, sometimes we use recycled ones (I feel much better about using these but…
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