Ice Cream Art Project

Funny Ice Cream Drawing and Art Project

Would your little learners like to draw a funny ice cream with me today? I'd love to help them! Here on this post you can find:

• step by step photos to draw
• a video of me drawing a funny ice cream - play it for your students and pause each step so they can draw!
• how to find writing papers over in our store

Let's Draw a Funny Ice Cream!

• draw a landscape rectangle

• to finish the ice cream cone, draw a base, a long rectangle down to the base of the page 

• let's start the ice cream scoop - draw a little C shape at the side 

• jump up and over and finish with another little C 

• draw a pattern on the ice cream cone 

• draw a happy face 

• some glasses to finish!

• now you can paint or color with crayons and markers 

• I added some soft cotton clouds in the sky

• and some crayon grass at the base 

• don't forget you can modify your drawing to make all sorts of different ice creams! 

• and a variety of ice cream flavours 

Here is a video of me drawing so you can see the steps in action!

 

Don't forget, you can pop over to TpT to find our printable pages if you prefer.

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The Classroom is the place to bee!

Make a giant classroom poster to create a welcoming learning environment. Use it on your classroom bulletin board, window, door or wall. It displays the message - This is the best place to bee.

Your students will each color a square and collaboratively paste the pieces together.

• print 35 pages - assign one to each student
• each page shows a coloring key - color the parts according to the key
• each page shows the student where in the poster their piece is located
• glue on the gray tabs and follow the numbers to piece the 35 pieces together
• the 16 full size pages into position to create the giant poster
• add some tape to the back to reinforce the poster if desired

Included is also a one-page sized poster. You can print this one for small spaces in either color or blackline. What a lovely book cover or coloring page too!

Speaking of book covers, I have used Elizabeth Richard cardboard book boxes from my first year of teaching. They are sturdy, practical and economical. For this photo we used a range of our 'Door Display' labels to label the boxes. I printed the full size label at 70% to get them perfect for the boxes.

Easter Tree - with Elizabeth Richards book boxes in background.

I shared how to assemble the Elizabeth Richards book boxes on my classroom instagram back in 2016 when I was setting up the last room I had. I showed you how to assemble them and how I was using them - for Reading Groups, work books and even for paints! 

Assigning a box for your small groups can be such an easy way to make flexible seating and group work more practical - the group can carry all their supplies with them and on the front of the box you can record the group members, or a small picture of the subject or resource type - just like I have always done! It give your students an opportunity to self-manage and contribute to a well organized space. 

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Creative Thinking and Drawing

We have a printable pack in our store to help you encourage creative thinking within your students. We would love to help you understand the pack better here on the blog by showing it to you in more detail. From these ideas we show you here you may develop your own activities for your classroom or if you are looking for a fast-prep solution you can print out our pages!

This pack includes 20 'draw more' activity pages. Students will finish each drawing by using their imagination and ideas. We do hope your little learners love completing these art projects. Use them as an art warm-up or stimulus for writing. Ask your students to write a story following their creative thinking time!

Included are 20 projects:

1. draw more leaves and bugs
2. finish the snail trail
3. draw more spiders
4. turn the circles into anything
5. draw what is in the jars
6. draw more clouds in the sky
7. draw yourself in the photo frame
8. draw more birds in the tree
9. turn the squares into anything
10. add toppings to the pizza
11. add spots on the bugs
12. draw details on the house
13. draw peoples' faces
14. draw more sea creatures
15. draw what else is on the hill
16. draw more details on the robot
17. draw the rest of the robot
18. draw patterns on the leaves
19. draw the rest of the garden
20. draw squares in squares

As you implement these activities in your learning program:

• show the students the page they will complete
• talk about your expectations - how much time you are allowing, what materials the students cab use, how much detail you expect
• model an example of your expectation by 'drawing more' yourself
• talk as you complete the page, modelling for the students persistence, creative thinking, generating ideas through self-talk and creative risk-taking 

Here is a close up of some of the pages:

Turn these squares into anything you choose!

Add toppings to the pizza

Draw the details on the house

Draw some people

Draw what else is on the hill

Draw more detail on the robots

Draw patterns on the leaves

Draw the rest of the graden

Finish the snail trail 

If you would like to buy the printable pages, pop over to our TpT store HERE

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Math Operations Posters

Make key words for the operations in math clear and accessible for your little learners with our fast-prep printable posters! Not only will they help reinforce essential content in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division - the fun design will contribute positively to our classroom aesthetic.

Each poster features some key words and language surrounding the operation:

• Addition - put together, plus, add, adding, bigger, total, sum, make
• Subtraction - taking away, minus, left over, difference, decrease, remain, less, leave
• Multiplication - groups of, times, multiply, product, lots of, rows of, by
• Division - share equally, each, even, divide, out of, between, split, every

Just print and display! 4 posters are included, also supplied in a backline version.

These posters are now over in our TpT store and can be used:

• as an attractive classroom display
• in combination with a review of the operations in math
• as review pages for math journals (use the blackline version as worksheets)

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Odd One Out

We've recently shared some more 'Odd One Out' puzzles over on Facebook. We thought you may like them too. See if you can find the odd image out in each square.

If you and your students enjoy these sorts of puzzles, you may be interested in our Visual Discrimination printable activities.

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Thank you Teachers

We made this coloring page by request for one of our Instagram followers through the week. Her town are placing apples in the windows of houses to thank teachers as they drive by. It might be too late for you to do a similar teacher-appreciation-week gesture, but you can come back to this post next year!

This page is free to download in our Free Pond Coloring Club. 

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NIGHT AND DAY ART OR CRAFT PROJECT

Get creative while learning about Day and Night with this fun craft and writing project. Together, the owls will look amazing on a classroom door, bulletin board or display.

Before completing the craft you may like to:

• discuss the differences between night and day - ask students to tell you their thoughts, what they observe
• ask students to tell you what activities they do during day/night - chart and compile a class list
• use the student recording page to record observations

The craft component has 2 options:

• completed page (no cutting of individual pieces, children color or paint)
• template piece template pages to cut and glue - these can be printed on color paper, or print them on white paper and ask your students to shade them.

The craft features an owl that has been divided into half and depicted to reflect night and day.

Into your lesson you can incorporate a discussion of

• owls and nocturnal animals
• warm and cool colors
• symmetry

This new printable paper craft pack has been added to our TpT store - you can find it HERE

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Happy Week Wallpaper

Friends, I want to bring a little joy and happiness to your week and the best way I can do that today is to share my new screen wallpaper with you!
This new wallpaper and paper design is called Happy Week. I hope when you can add it to your home and classroom electronic boards, iPads, computers and phones and it makes you happy!

Simply download the images from google drive from the links below. Store them on your camera roll and choose them for your screen saver and/or wallpaper!

Find the Computer Screensaver HERE

and the Phone Screensaver HERE

{These are for your personal use only and cannot be redistributed or shared}

Coordinating Printables

I've also added this design, in print quality to the 'Banner and Paper' pack. This pack allows you to coordinate your home office or classroom elements with your screen!

This paper pack includes papers that can be used for the background of classroom posters, powerpoints, folders, books and labels. Decorative pennants for a classroom banner are also included.

Find more of our screen wallpapers HERE

Thank you so much for visiting us here on the blog. Have a beautiful, happy week.

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