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Saturday, February 12, 2022

A handy little frog craft...

       The only supplies you will need for this craft is: green, white yellow, and red construction paper, scissors, white school glue and a young person's hand to trace around.
       If you are working with students younger than five or six, the craft may be easier to accomplish with green paint and a hand print. But, as you students age, it is more of a challenge for them to trace around his or her hand and cut the shape out with scissors.
       Cut three circle shapes for the eye balls: two from green paper and one from yellow. Then cut the yellow circle in half and glue the two halves to the lower halves of the green circles. This will make your green frog friend look sleepy...
       Cut a larger green oval from construction paper for the frogs mouth. Use a green crayon to make the lips look puffy! Then cut a long red tongue from paper and curl it around your crayon. Uncurl it and glue one tip between the frog's puffy lips.
       Now you can choose to mount this silly looking frog to a bulletin board, or a paper pond scene.
 
More Handy Frog Crafts:

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Valentine Mailbox Links

      In the United States, crafting Valentine mailboxes to collect letters and candy from classmates is an old, popular tradition. Although, most classroom teachers now ask their students to craft their mailboxes at home instead of making these at school. When I was young it was one of my favorite holidays to participate in at school. 
      I have also discovered that children from many different heritages and cultures love to exchange Valentines on February 14 during a classroom party; it makes little difference to them who first thought of the idea. A clever teacher can integrate both the study of history and literacy into a lesson about Valentines Day.  It is also a perfect opportunity to teach students of all ages about the lost art of letter writing.
     I will continue to collect all of the wonderful ideas that teachers, parents and students have come up with concerning the construction of Valentine mailboxes and link to them here.
The traditional Valentine mailbox is crafted from a shoe box or any other discarded box that you may have on hand.
Cereal boxes are often recycled for this mail box craft by school children.
Collect Your Valentines in A Traditional Valentine Mailbox:
Actual Mailbox Shapes:
Collect Valentines in Decorated Paper Bags:
Big Collections:
These students have made folders and pasted hearts on top of them.
Folded Valentine mail carriers come in handy when boxes and bags are not readily available.
Teachers often help their students craft Valentine bags for collecting their mail at parties.
These are inexpensive and quick to decorate.
Collect Your Valentines in A Decorated Folder or Paper Basket:
Chair Back Mail Boxes:
Students can transform their home made Valentine mailboxes into all sorts of unique critters!
Collect Your Valentines in A Unique Valentine Critter: