Paper Cutting & Silhouette Index

Examples of cut silhouette designs in paper from the collection below.

        Papercutting is the art of cutting paper designs. The art has evolved uniquely all over the world to adopt to different cultural styles. Read more...

More Articles About The Art of Silhouetting:

1. The Lost Art of Silhouetting
2. Authors and Artists Starring in Latest Silhouette Movies, from 1916 
3. Paper Lesson Plans Links k-12
4. Where does the word "silhouette" come from? 
5. The Art of Paper Craft
6. Who Was Johann Kaspar Lavater? 
7. "The Snow Queen" in Scherenschnitt 
8. Silhouettes by A Swedish Artist 
9. Paper Cutting Patterns by Auguste Edouart 
10. Paper Folding Craft Links
11. Ways to Display Scherenschnitt and Silhouettes
12. Christmas Paper Cuts From 1914

Silhouette Artist Videos:

1. Paper Cutting by Julie Marabelle 
2. "Laundry Day" by Kathryn Carr 
3. Schneekonigin, Scherenschnitt, Snow Queen
4. Béatrice Coron: Her Stories Cut from Paper 
5. "The Lion and the Mouse Fable" in Silhouettes 
6. The Adventures of Prince Achmed 
7. Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger

Paper Cut Artifacts to Illustrate Poems:

1. "In the Swing" Silhouette and Poem
2. Shadows
3. Cold Water
4. Bessie's Knitting
5. Lincoln 
6. The Mist and All
7. Josephus Hyde and His Sinful Pride
8. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" by Goodridge
9. "If Pets, Why Not Useful Ones?"
10. "Old Mother Hubbard" Japanese Motifs 
11. Mother Goose Auto Parade - mini book
12. The Proud Miss O'Haggin
13. A Rainy Day Game
14. "Tom, Tom the Piper's Son" by Goodridge
15. "Hey Diddle Diddle" by Goodridge
16. The Queen's Hearts
    

Patterns of Paper Cuts: Additional Motifs:

1. Papercutting by Walter Crane 
2. Paper Patterns by Paul Konewka
3. The Three Bears Silhouette
4. Silhouettes from "The Little Minister"
5. Paper cuts of sports and social occasions...
6. Paper Cuts of Children from 1859
7. The Eastford Boys Silhouettes
8. Old-fashioned figures in profile...
9. Woodbury Papercutting Designs 
10. Old-Fashioned Halloween Silhouettes
11. Paper cut of a very fuzzy cat
12. Patterns by Silhouette Artist, Joseph Martin Klaus
13. A seated soldier paper cut
14. Arranging flowers paper cut
15. Silhouette of Mother and Child In A Garden
16. Silhouette by Artists Unknown
17. A charming paper cut of deer
18. Fairy Friends Paper Cuts 
19. Silhouettes by Nelly Bodenheim
20. Paper Church Silhouettes
21. The Civic Ball In Silhouette, 1917
22. Paper Silhouettes by Mrs. Collins 
23. Paper Silhouette Camel Cuts
24. Silhouette Profiles of Young Boys
25. Jack and Jill Silhouette
26. Paper Cuts of Children With a Pony
27. Polish Gwaizdy Paper Templates 
28. Egg Hunt Silhouettes for Easter 
29. Paper Cuts of Thanksgiving Turkeys
30. Paper Cuts for Halloween of Black Cats 
31. Vintage Paper Cuts for Fall
32. Free Paper Cuts of Sheep 
33. Silhouette Paper Cuts by Baroness Maydell
34. Fall Leaves, Squirrels Up Trees
35. Halloween Mask Silhouettes
36. St. Patrick's Day Silhouettes
37. Circus Elephant Paper Cuts
38. Vintage Egyptian Paper-Cut Designs
39. Paper Cuts of Jigging Pigs
40. Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Stencils
41. Paper Cuts of Farm Animals
42. Silhouettes of Presidential Themes

Saint Valentine's Day Index

Examples of Valentine Activities in my collection below.

        A saint of the Roman calendar, said to have been martyred in A.D. 306. The custom of choosing valentines on his day (February 14th) has been accidentally associated with his name. On the eve of Saint Valentine's day, young people of both genders used to meet, and each of the men drew from a number of names of the opposite sex. Each gentleman thus got a lady for his valentine, and he became the valentine of a lady, to whom he was bound to be faithful for a year. A similar custom prevailed in the Roman Luperealia, to which the modern custom has with probability, been traced. The day now celebrated by sending through the post, sentimental or ludicrous missives, specially prepared for the purpose.

• Search the Valentine coloring pages at Crayon Palace
• Search the Valentine clip art at Christian Clip Art Review
• Search the Victorian Valentine scraps at All Victorian Ephemera
• Search the Valentine's Day Doll Crafts at The Doll Coloring Book

Valentine Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans:

1. Assemble Hershey Kiss Bouquets for Valentine's Day
2. Design and Craft a Sailor's Valentine
3. "You Take The Cake!" Valentine
4. The Lovable Child
5. A Conversational Heart Bulletin Board
6. "You're Sodalicious Valentine!"
7. Craft a Welsh Corgi Valentine Mailbox
8. Craft a Paper Candy Posy for Your Valentine
9. "Apple of My Eye" Valentines
10. Craft a Pennant Styled Valentine Banner
11. Craft a Valentine Cracker or Two
12. Craft a Little Valentine Garden
13. Little Stories by Little Folks
14. A Valentine Acrostic
15. Display Your Valentine Collections in Large Hanging Heart Pockets
16. "Bee Mine" Valentines
17. Grandmamma's Valentine
18. "Love Bug" Valentines
19. A Drawing Contest for Valentine's Day
20. Handmade Valentines of The 1800s
21. Over 100 Quality Valentine Links!
22. An Elizabethan Valentine
23. Vulgar Vinegar for Valentines Day?
24. The Manufactured Valentine
25. May's Valentine
26. Craft Valentine's Day Journals
27. To My Daughter
28. A Mother's Valentines
29. "The Queen of Hearts" by Randolph Caldecott
30. Cut-Out, Paste and Paint a Jim Dine Valentine
31. Mamma's Valentine
32. Patterns for Home-Made Valentines
33. Sociologists Say Kissing is an Expression of Advanced Civilization
34. Valentines Manufactured by Esther Howland
35. Valentine Mailbox Links
36. A Rejected Valentine 
37. Draw Fun Valentine Cartoons! 
38. Our Family Memories Hang on A Valentine Tree
39. A Funny Valentine
40. I'll Be Your Valentine  
41. Tear & Assemble A Valentine Rag Wreath
42. 6 Books to celebrate Valentine's Day 
43. The Queen's Hearts silhouette and poem
    

Halloween or All Hollows Eve Index

Pictures of artifacts in my collection below, for All Hollows Eve.

 

        Halloween is on the evening of October 31. Though the occasion is usually given over to frolics, mischief and entertainments of an hilarious nature, the name means, literally, Holy Eve. In fact, October 31rst is the eve of the Church festival of All Saints, which occurs on November 1rst. Long ago pagan people celebrated All Saint's Day in honor of the good and evil spirits which were believed to inhabit the earth, and the frolicking of today is merely a survival of these superstitious customs.
       Children of the St. Louis, Missouri area are expected to perform a joke, usually a simple Halloween-themed pun or riddle, before receiving any candy; this "trick" earns the "treat". Sometimes children also perform a magic trick, recite a short poem or perform a simple tumbling trick, like a cartwheel, in order to receive their candy. Parents also normally accompany their children and most are in costume as well. Because I live in St. Louis, I've included listings of jokes and poems below. 

• Search the Halloween coloring pages at Crayon Palace
• Search the Halloween Doll Crafts at The Doll Coloring Book

Click to download the largest available size.
On high she flies up through the skies, and
across the Milky Way. To find out who she is
just do as these directions say: cut out each
of the little pieces and paste them onto a
stiff sheet of paper to solve the puzzle.
This is a classic Halloween character.

Halloween Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans: St. Louis Style

1. 5 Simple Halloween Crafts: Templates Included - Make a pom-pom puppet spider, recycled paper ghosts, a batty candy holder, a ghost outside a window, and a shredded paper pumpkin craft.
2. Just Admiring the Giant, Halloween, Yard Art on A Lovely Fall Day...
3. Tear and paste a candy corn picture for preschool...- help develop small motor skills in preschool through kindergarten students with this project.
   
4. Halloween Party Favor Ideas for The Classroom
5. A jack-o-lantern maze
6. A Safe Place for Trick-or-Treaters to Party
7. Craft a Ruote Pasta Web
8. A Jack-O-Lantern Dot-To-Dot
9. The Haunted Palace
10. How to Draw a Halloween Cat
11. Feelings Faces Game for Halloween
12. Pumpkin and Jack-O-Lantern Number Books
13. 100 Spooky Crafts & Treats For Halloween
14. "Spooky" Tree Watercolor Painting
15. Paint, Cut and Paste Your Own Bumpy Little Pumpkins
16. Scrumdiddlyumptious Apple and Quince Treats and Recipes!
17. How Halloween Came to Be Celebrated in Christendom
18. Hallowe'en in Olden Time
19. Craft an Edible Jack-O-Lantern Bingo Game
20. Draw a Shaded White Spider Web 
21. Corpse Bride
22. The Story of "Stingy Jack"
23. Arsenic and Old Lace
24. Costumes Worn On Halloween
25. Improvised Masquerade Costumes
26. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
27. Draw a Design From a Spider's Web
28. Craft an Animated Skeleton
29. Old-Fashioned Halloween Silhouettes 
30. How to Make "Pumpkin Spice" or "Pumpkin Pie" Playdough
31. Bake a Fortune Cake
32. "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" - a family Halloween movie favorite!
33. Around The Apple Tub
34. Over 100 Riddles for Trick-Or-Treaters
35. "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe
36. How to make caramel apples, yum!
37. Knock, Knock Links
38. Shape a Draped Ghost for All Hallows Eve! 
39. Hallowe'en by John Kendrick Bangs 
40. Lessons: Pumpkin Soup
41. Paper Cuts for Halloween of Black Cats 
42. Halloween Mask Silhouettes
43. Old-Fashioned Lantern Silhouettes - comes with lantern templates by kathy grimm
44. Weave a Spider's web for a Spooky Fall Craft - made with yarn and wooden tongue depressors
    
45. How kids can quill a jack-o-lantern picture
46. Halloween Window Decorations
47. Halloween Silhouettes for The Classroom
48. Halloween Lantern Designs for The Classroom 
49. Classroom paper cuts of black cats... 
    

Halloween Poems:

1. October Wood  - ''Have you ever seen the glories of a dark October wood?''
2. The Puzzling Pumpkin  - ''This is the way the pumpkin looked, Jolly fellow, round and yellow!''
3. Halloween Signs - "Have you ever seen, upon happy Halloween how brightly the stars do shine?''
   
4. The Unbeliever... - I don't believe in ghosts, you know.''
   
5. My Choice - "Old Halloween's the day I like"
   
6. Is It?  - ''Is that the wind a-howling round about my window pane?''
   
7. Halloween Cats  - Black cats, of season Halloween, you are the queerest I have seen.''
   
8. The Interrupting Owlet - ''When mother owl and father owl are talking busily,'' 
   
9. The Tale of The Jack-O-Lantern - ''A Jack-o'-Lantern played some pranks one moonlit Hallowe'en"
   

Ocean and Seashore Index

Pictures of artifacts in index below.

       The ocean or sea is the vast body of water which covers nearly three-fourths of the surface of the globe. Although no portion of it is completely detached from the rest, the ocean has been theoretically divided into several great basins or areas, namely, the Pacific Ocean, which separates Asia and Australia from America; the Atlantic Ocean which separates America from Europe and Africa; the Indian Ocean, which intervenes between Africa and Australia; the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, round the North and South poles respectively. Between these divisions no very definite limits can be drawn; thus it is impossible to say where the Atlantic or the Pacific ends and the Antarctic or Southern Ocean begins.

• Search the Ocean Life Coloring Index at Crayon Palace

Ocean and Seashore Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans:

1. The Sea Gull by Mary Howitt
2. Break! Break! Break!
3. Song for All Seas, All Ships
4. Craft an entire school of "Rainbow Fish" from paper plates!
5. Design and Craft a Sailor's Valentine
6. Octopus Clock Craft
7. Salt Lifting Some Sand Castles
8. 7 Books on Tide Pools for Children 
9. Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling 

More Ideas For The Study of The Sea:

• Room 14: Tide Pool Inquiry and  2 in 1 Tide Pools: Experiment and Sensory Play
• Ocean Education from National Geographic Society
• Craft a Coral Reef for: classrooms, parties, VBS, etc...
• Hands-on Lessons and Activities About Oceans
• Sculpt a ceramic turtle from Art Education Daily and Glue together a shell mosaic box
• Ocean Fact Sheets & Fun
• Free teacher-approved marine education resources
• 7 Books on Tide Pools for Children  

Page last updated on February 12, 2022

Children's Poetry & Prose Index

Many of the poems and prose in my index come with illustrated prints.

       Poetry, one of the two greatest classes of literary production, the other being prose. According to the usual meaning of the term, poetry is rhythmical, imaginative language which appeals to the emotions and the artistic sense. As we think casually of the question, we take for granted that prose was the earlier form of literature. Moliere in one of his comedies shows the surprise of an old man who discovers that he has been, all his life, "talking prose without knowing it;" but most of us are conscious that we "talk prose," and we see nothing wonderful about it. Prose is so much simpler and more natural than poetry, we think, and surely the early nations must have had a well-developed prose literature before they ventured to attempt poetry?
       Although nearly every category included under this blog lists poetry according to theme, the illustrated children's poetry is linked altogether here.

• Christmas Poetry Anthology 
• Easter Poetry Anthology
• Illustrated Poems For Coloring

 Hieroglyphics Artifacts:

1. Hieroglyphics or Picture Writing" The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

Illustrated Children's Poetry Artifacts for Enhancing Lesson Plans:

1. His Wish by Anonymous
2. Animal Alphabet by John Martin
3. Toys At Night 
4. Santa Claus's Scout by Eunice Ward
5. The Train by C. H. Crandall
6. The Sea Gull by Mary Howitt
7. The Lovable Child
8. The Plains' Call...
9. When Winter Comes
10. A Valentine Acrostic 
11. Grandmamma's Valentine
12. The Snow-Bird
13. Don't Belittle Little Things
14. A Wise Old Owl
15. A Mother's Valentines
16. Politeness
17. "When The Frost Is On the Punkin"
18. The Turkey's Lament by King Gobbler
19. A Summer Snowstorm!
20. "The Cornstalk's Lesson" Poem
21. "Roasting Corn" Poem
22. The Fourth of July
23. The Happy Wind
24. The Popular Poplar Tree
25. Shoe Play
26. Finish your meal...
27. A little boy named Johnny...
28. The Giraffe Friend
29. Bow-wow, little dog...
30. Bargains for Scholars
31. An Imaginary Case
32. A Cup of Tea
33. Days of the week...
34. Cock-a-doodle-doo!
35. The pudding-bag string...  
36. The Country Round, The Country Faith
37. The Cow
38. Jingle by G. G. Wiederseim
39. Singing
40. The Cradle That Walked On Two Feet
41. Little Miss Crewe...
42. Down the path...
43. The Rain Regiment
44. Pillow-Time!
45. Autumn 
46. Rigmarole 
47. Choosing A Name 
48. Two Illustrated Rhymes from The 1800's 
49. The Ostrich
50. The Gnu Wooing
51. Concerning The Slowness of The Sloth 
52. The Interrupting Owlet
53. Little Danny Donkey 
54. Thanksgiving by Anonymous  
55. Billy's Whiskers
    

More Excellent Poetry Resource for Kids:

• poet-to-poet project
• readwritethink poetry lesson plans for young students
• Best children's poetry books
• WORDMOVER app by National Council of Teachers of English
• Rhyme zone dictionary
• Classical Poems for Children from storyit