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Visual arts thematic unit plans under $5
Teddy Bear Picnic Activities
Are you organizing the annual Teddy Bear Picnic this year? What Teddy Bear Picnic activities will you plan? This resource pack makes it easy for you. There’s a fun-filled day of tried and tested activities for your little learners. Encourage your students to invite their teddy to school to experience this exciting day.It’s definitely a highlight of the Kindergarten year!INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE>> Overview>> Teddy Bear Picnic Tomorrow Reminder Sign>> Reminder Wristbands or Bag
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PreK - 1st
Orca Whale Craft and Writing Activities
Perfect for an Ocean Theme!Kids love to look at Killer Whales (Orcas) and they will love making this cute little guy. He will go great with your ocean theme and look cute on your bulletin board with all of your other ocean themed crafts.Included with this craft:All Pattern pieces.Materials listInstructions pagePicture of the craftColor sheet Class Book: "All About Orcas" with several book page options.Orcas (can, have, are) sentence strips to pair with the craft.Orca Whale Facts page2 Writing p
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PreK - 3rd
Growth Mindset lessons using The Dot, Ish, and Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds
When you are teaching students about growth mindset, I believe it is vital to use stories they can relate to. If they are seeing other characters showing both a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, they will be more likely to understand what each look like.
This is a packet of Growth Mindset lessons which use the three books from Peter H. Reynolds collectively called the Creatrilogy. You will need to purchase these books or be able to borrow them to teach these lessons. Each book has wonderful
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K - 5th
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Football and Homecoming | Fall Craft and Class Book
Football Homecoming Week!Perfect craft for Fall when schools are celebrating homecoming football games.These sweet crafts will look great on your bulletin boards and in your school hallways. Kids love getting into the school spirit!! Create these sweet crafts in your schools colors!Included with this Craft:All pattern pieces are included for all 3 crafts!Cheerleader Pom Poms Cheerleader MegaphoneFootballClass Book: "Our Team is..." Two Class book pages:
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PreK - 1st
Also included in:Â Fall Football and Homecoming Craft Bundle
Football Player and Cheerleader Homecoming Crafts and Class Books
Great craft for Homecoming Week and celebrating your favorite team!Football season is here and these two crafts are perfect for Fall when schools are celebrating homecoming and football games.These sweet crafts will be perfect and look great on your bulletin boards and in your school hallways. Kids love getting into the school spirit!! Create these sweet crafts in your schools colors!Two class books are included with these crafts: "Cheerleaders are..." and "Football Players are..."Included wi
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PreK - 4th
Also included in:Â Fall Football and Homecoming Craft Bundle
Art Inspires! Sketching Techniques - Line Styles - Art Lesson Plans
You don’t have to be an art teacher to include authentic, meaningful art instruction in the classroom! Build self-esteem and creativity within your students through this fun and engaging unit. Trust me – if I can do it, ANYONE can!
In this mini-unit, students will learn how to sketch using six different line styles: basic line, pointillism, contour, scribble, cross-hatch, and smudge technique.
Unit includes tutorials for you to explain in simple terms each of the six different styles, sample
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1st - 12th
Football Goal | Homecoming | Fall Craft
Homecoming Week Football Goal!This football goal is perfect for Fall when schools are celebrating homecoming football games. This craft can be made two ways: 1. Large football Goal just piece it together. 2. Small version kids glue it onto a piece of construction paper. Either way it will look great on your bulletin boards and in your school hallways. Kids love getting into the school spirit!! Included with this craft:All pattern pieces with detailed edges and withoutPicture of all versions o
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PreK - 4th
Also included in:Â Fall Football and Homecoming Craft Bundle
Geography Unit Activities - maps, compass rose, labeling
Enjoy this geography unit packet with several different activities to fulfill state standard objectives. Activities include:
*Fill in the blank with vocabulary words from the unit (geography, birds eye view, compass rose, and more)
*Geography terms word search
*Coloring fun- follow the key to color the continents and oceans as listed at the bottom of the page
*Identify and label directions on a compass rose
*Compass rose quiz
*What is a map key?

*Make a map of your classroom using your own key
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K - 2nd
Layers of the Rainforest | Craft
This is a rainforest layer craft. It includes all the necessary templates to create the layers of the rainforest. This is a perfect companion to your rainforest unit and is a fun, interactive way to review the layers of the rainforest and where the animals live.Students can add 6 rainforest animals to their rainforest once completed.How to Use:Print on correct color papers and cut outHave students create the rainforest layers with the templatesAdd the four labels Add the animals in the correct p
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PreK - 1st
Lizard | Southwest Desert | Craft
If you are studying about the desert habitat this little whimsical lizard is the perfect craft This lizard would be a great addition to a desert them unit. He is simple for your "littles" to make. He would look great on a classroom bulletin board or in a school hallway.He can be made in a variety of colors.Your kids will love creating this little guy and be excited to take it home!
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in:Â Southwest Desert Life Craft Bundle
May Day Basket
This simple and easy basket is a great way to brighten any day, May Day Baskets are traditionally used on May 1st to celebrate the beginning of spring, but these colorful creations can be used at anytime during the year. A template for making the basket is provided as well as easy instructions for cutting, folding and gluing.
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K - 8th
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Bulldog Craft | Mascot | Pet Theme
Use as a School Mascot or use this sweet little fella to add to a Pet Theme!This sweet little dog would make an adorable craft for back to school if your school mascot is a bulldog! He can also be used with a pet theme! This guy will be adorable on a bulletin board or in a school hallway!Included with this craft:All Pattern pieces for 2 different looks for the bulldog.Materials list.InstructionsPicture of the craft.Color sheetsYour kids will be so excited to make this craft and display it!
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PreK - 5th
Indigenous Text Unit Early Stage One
This Indigenous Text Unit offers 8 Weeks of engaging teaching and learning experiences to introduce your Kindergarten / Foundation Level students to the Aboriginal Dreaming stories: Malu Kangaroo, How the Birds Got Their Colours, Dunbi the Owl and Warnayarra the Rainbow Snake. Ideal in the lead up to NAIDOC Week or any time of the year!
The Dreaming for Australian Indigenous people (sometimes referred to as the Dreamtime or Dreamtimes) is when the Ancestral Beings moved across the land and cre
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K - 2nd
Summer Strawberry Garden Craft
Strawberry Garden CraftThis sweet strawberry is a perfect addition to a summer garden theme unit. This is a simple craft for your "littles" to make. It would look great on a classroom bulletin board or in a school hallway.I have included a class book about strawberries with cover page to laminate and student page. I have also included a chocolate dip section to add to this strawberry. You can have your kids make a white chocolate or milk chocolate dipped strawberry.Included with this craft:All
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PreK - 2nd
Haiku for All Seasons Integrated Writing and Art Lesson
Integrate Poetry and Art! This writing activity works for any season - fall, winter, spring, or summer - or any holiday, especially Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Mother's Day! Students write and illustrate Haiku poetry depicting seasonal images in this integrated activity in which the two disciplines -- art and writing -- complement and support each other. The lesson is divided into five distinct sessions which can be completed in one day with time left over, or can be scheduled over a series
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2nd - 5th
Hummingbirds: Activities and Mini Unit
This hummingbird unit has integrated and hands on activities for your students to engage with while learning about hummingbirds. The activities in this hummingbird unit include an engaging Guided Reading reader about hummingbirds (Level C/D) that is NGSS aligned. This hummingbird unit also includes a hummingbird writing activity and a Geography activity to learn about the hummingbird migration route. This hummingbird unit also has a hummingbird math activity where students can play a fun math
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K - 2nd
Visual Art: Primary (Grades 1-3) - Fall Landscape Art Unit
This primary integrated art unit includes links to language arts, rubric for assessment of learning, list of success criteria and looks fors, images of student work as well as peer and self evaluation forms. I have outlined the specific expectations of the Ontario Arts Curriculum in addition to the elements of design being taught in these lessons. A comprehensive and fun fall mini art unit for you and your class to enjoy!This Primary Visual Arts Unit includes:o Handouts for use throughout the cr
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K - 3rd
Fairy Tales Kindergarten
Dragons and Mermaids and Wizards, Oh, My!!! This Fairy Tale Unit is designed to unlock the imagination of younger students. It includes crafts, simple writing activities, read and color activities, cut and paste, and much more! You and your students will love this fairy tale genre study!Please check out the preview to see what is included in this fairy tale unit. You will get:Fairy Tale - "What is in a Fairy Tale?" Anchor Chart Poster - Albert Einstein quote "If you want children to be intell
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PreK - 1st
Animals in Winter - Poem and Cross-Curricular Teaching Kit
Animals in Winter Teaching Kit includes:1. Poem, Peek-a-Boo, Why Don’t I See You – Animals in Winter.This is a poem I wrote to help children understand how various animals cope during the winter. It introduces the concepts of hibernation, migration and adaptation. 2. T-Chart sorting worksheet - students colour, cut and paste various animals into corresponding groups: migrate, adapt, hibernate.3. Fishing Rod Art - students decorate a fish template and create a fishing rod for a hungry bear.4. Go
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PreK - 3rd
Element of Warm-Cool COLOR-COLOUR with Van Gogh one day art lesson k - 2nd grade
Kindergarten, First grade and Second grade teachers, are you looking for a quick-win art lesson that is not craft? One that makes authentic links to the Element of Color/Colour, Art Theory, Art History, Famous artworks ... and ... also guides you and your students through making a quick but relevant art response. All in around 60 minutes.Then this Mini Masterpieces art lesson series could be what you are searching for to see you through a year of teaching visual art to your students aiming for 1
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K - 2nd
Also included in:Â ELEMENT of COLOR - COLOUR Bundle 3x one day art lessons Kindy - 2nd grade
Scarecrow Personal Narrative Writing, Story Telling & Art Unit
Bring personal narrative writing to life for your first graders with this week-long Common Core Aligned unit while bringing FUN back into teaching and learning. Your students will have a ball as they listen to scarecrow storytelling with colorful picture cards to captivate their interest, engage in their own storytelling activity with student picture cards, create a scarecrow puppet, take their puppet on a fun adventure to the playground, write a personal narrative to share about their adventur
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1st
Gingerbread Glyph
This file contains a pattern and student page for the creation of gingerbread projects. Every gingerbread project tells the story of the child who created it. The components convey information about children’s families, birthdays, age, interests and favorites. Gingerbread glyphs are fun to make and every one is unique!
This project can be used with students as young as kindergarten age and as old as fifth grade age!
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K - 5th
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National Park Coloring Pages
National Parks - This collection includes a coloring page for all 59 National Parks in the United States. These will perfectly accompany a geography unit, Social Studies, trip planning, or a study on the regions of the country.These detailed custom created National Park coloring pages are for bigger kids and allow for some creative genius when coloring. These National Park coloring pages are created directly from photographs taken inside each National Park. Many of the photographs, I took myse
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2nd - 9th
Arctic and Antarctica Unit
Updated 9/2018 to include photographs for the nonfiction books. STEM activities, art projects, and experiments are now included to keep kids actively engaged in this unit.This unit includes a variety of projects to keep your kids engaged and learning. *Original nonfiction book on Antarctica (pages 1-10) *Why is there six months of daylight/darkness demonstration and writing prompt (page 12-13)*How do animals stay warm? Science experiment (page 14)*Penguin graph activity (page 15)*Ripped Paper
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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