Arts and Crafts Teaching Materials, Teacher Resources, Books, Classroom Supplies for Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade

Arts & Crafts Teaching Supplies, Educational Materials, Classroom Supplies and Teacher Resource Books

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Arts and Crafts (8 products)

The Best of The Mailbox Magazine: Arts and Crafts

Grade Level: Preschool / Kindergarten
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2001465
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Get a fresh supply of fun and educational arts and crafts activities with this collection of ideas. Contains age-appropriate arts and crafts projects for every season.

Season by season you'll find easy-to-do, timesaving projects sure to capture your students' interest and unleash their imaginations. Reproducible patterns and a cross-referenced index are included.

Here are just some of the many projects you'll find in this resource:

The Best of The Mailbox Magazine: Arts and Crafts

Grade Level: First Grade - Third Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2001466
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Get a fresh supply of fun and educational arts and crafts activities with this collection of ideas! Season by season you'll find easy-to-do, timesaving projects sure to capture your students' interest and unleash their imaginations.

Here is a sample of some of the many projects you'll find in this resource:

Pretty Patchwork Apples
Paper Bag Haunts
Fashionable Fowl
Snowflakes from Spaghetti
Frozen Paint on a Stick
One-of-a-Kind Valentine Holders
Cotton Ball Blossoms
Funny Bunnies
Gifts Galore for Mom and Dad
Poetic Planter
Roly-Poly Owls
Plus Plenty of Patterns!

Pages: 112
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Hooray for Art!

Grade Level: Preschool / Kindergarten
Price: $19.95
Product #: 2060941
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A year's worth of arts and crafts projects!

The perfect art activity for any day is now right at your fingertips! In this one big teacher resource, you'll find over 280 fresh and fun projects for every season and major holiday, plus activities your youngsters can complete any time of the year.

Best of all, the projects were created by early childhood teachers so they're right on target for what little hands can handle.

The activities are simple with little or no preparation time needed. Full-color illustrations take out all the guesswork, while the simple, straightforward steps ensure success.

Your young students will love creating these fun art projects, and their parents are sure to cherish the keepsake crafts too!

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Simple Graph Art

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $8.99
Product #: 1000095
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This graph art activity book is a compilation of kindergarten - first grade level pictures which are designed to fit graph paper squares. The child colors in the squares on graph paper according to directions on a direction sheet and a mystery picture appears.

Includes 22 graph art pictures with a variety of themes. Each has a direction page and learning design page.

While completing these fun graph art pictures students will learn the following objectives:

Creative Kids: Creative Crafts for Clever Kids

Grade Level: Second - Sixth Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003195
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Inspire creativity with 90 hands-on activities that have easy-to-follow directions. The exciting projects in this book will provide your children with many happy hours of creative activity.

"Materials" lists everything necessary to complete the project. The main craft ideas are extended with "More Ideas", which offers alternatives for decorating and using the completed projects and for creating different ones.

Most materials are readily available from hobby shops, hardware and fabric stores, or your local grocery. You may find some of the materials in your home-or even in your own backyard. Don't be afraid to substitute if you think something else may work instead of-or better than-what is suggested. The emphasis here is on being creative.

For your convenience, the crafts are divided into sections according to the main type of material used:

Pages: 160
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Art for All Seasons

Grade Level: First Grade - Sixth Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003198
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Spanning seasons and holidays throughout the year, Art for All Seasons is a complete resource book for parents, teachers, and anyone who works with children. Using readily obtainable materials and easy-to-follow directions, the art projects in this book are the ideal choice when searching for a seasonal project.

Celebrate fall with projects featuring sponge-painted trees, candy buckets, and hand-print turkeys.

Create cozy winter crafts like a lacy angel, a pop-up card, and pencil toppers.

Greet spring breezes with a bunny wind sock, pressed flowers suncatchers, and a paper bag piñata.

Welcome summer's sun with melted-crayon flowers, sun X-rays, and a fireworks hat.

The activities in this book make use of materials that are easily obtained. Most of the items you probably already have in your home. Any items that you need to buy can be found in grocery, drug, arts and crafts, and/or teacher supply stores. Recycling can provide many of the items too. In addition, some projects require materials that are found in nature.

In Art for All Seasons the children's year unfolds, unifying art and nature with hands-on experiences that enrich their lives through creative growth.

Pages: 158
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Creative Kids: Arts, Crafts, & More

Grade Level: Kindergarten - Sixth Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003200
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Using ideas and materials from a variety of sources, Arts, Crafts, & More is a complete resource book for parents and teachers. Easily-obtainable materials and easy-to-follow directions make the activities in this book ideal projects throughout the year.

This book is divided into nine sections. Each section contains a variety of activities, many of which are multipurpose. Materials, directions, and suggested activities are listed for each project.

Also included in Arts, Crafts, & More are suggestions for collecting, storing, and recycling materials, as well as recipes for homemade arts supplies. Children of all ages will enjoy hours of fun and active involvement as they create memorable art projects using materials you may have at one time considered discarding.

Pages: 160
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Building Literacy Skills Through Art

Grade Level: Preschool - First Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003377
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An exciting approach for developing literacy skills in young learners! Develop letter recognition, vocabulary, rhyming skills, story event recollection, math skills, and fine and gross motor coordination creating and using easy art projects.

The use of arts and crafts helps children build literacy skills in a fun, hands-on, relaxed environment.

Each activity includes:

An objective - Each project addresses a specific literacy objective.
Links to literacy - This section gives suggestions on how to achieve the objective stated and how to build literacy skills through the art project.
Materials - This section clearly outlines what is needed to complete each art activity.

Art project instructions - This section offers you step-by-step directions to easily complete the craft to be used in the Links to Literacy section. These steps are illustrated, when necessary, to clarify what needs to be done.