Beginning of Year Hat or End of Year Hat for School

First Day of School or Last Day of School Craft Hat Fun- 

I love to do something special for the end of the year and beginning of the year.

These printable classroom hats are just the thing! They are fun for the kiddos to make and they make super cute first day of school pictures or last day of school pictures.

This beginning of year or end of year School Craft Hat is the perfect craftivity to welcome your students back to school or send them home for summer on the last day of school.

You'll find a pencil headband in color and black and white, a page with strips to cut and add a little flair to the hat also in black and white, and your choice of hat design that reads either First Day of School of Last Day of school also in black or white.

Enjoy and have fun with this easy classroom printable hat! You can find this located at my teaching store {HERE}.

Butterfly Life Cycle Craft -- Emerging Butterfly Craft

Life Cycle of a Butterfly: Teach your students the full butterfly life cycle with this creative emerging butterfly craft. 

This life cycle craft illustrates the butterfly as it emerges from the chrysalis. This butterfly craft is a great hands on way to demonstrate the butterfly life cycle that will work for science centers too. Your students will color or paint the black and white printables and use the directions to fold their emerging butterfly. 

I have also included a color version of the craft to use as a teacher's copy or to even use during a classroom lesson on butterfly life cycles. This set also includes full sized butterfly life cycle posters to help you display your butterfly craft. You can use these resources during your butterfly unit too. In addition, you will also find the heading Our Emerging Butterflies to use to create a butterfly life cycle bulletin board. Click {Here} to find it in my store.

Mother's Day Craft Fun

Do you need a simple printable craft for Mother's Day? If so, check out my Mother's Day Craft where kiddos can send a 3-D flower home to Mom (or Mum or any other special person) this Mother's Day. 

 This Mother's Day craft for kids includes directions, flower and stem pattern, and several different versions of the cards that go on the flowers for Mom, Mum, or a special person.

It's one of my  favorite 3-D craftivities that's a Mother's Day craft, flower, and Mother's day book too!

To find out more about this Mother's Day easy craft, click {HERE}.

Frog Life Cycle Craft Chicken Life Cycle Craft Butterfly Life Cycle Craft Oh My!

Spring Activities Craft -- This spring craft is a unique way to display and teach your students about the chicken life cycle, butterfly life cycle, and frog life cycle and their habitats including the countryside, the farm, and the pond. Tie in the wind for the wind sock and you have a great science activity for spring.

Students will create three life cycle wind socks (just add streamers) or a life cycle lantern during your next life cycle science lesson or habitat science lesson. There are additional labels you can add that include the terms for the life cycles. These work well for science centers too or for a science or spring bulletin board.

These are easy to make! Print out the black and white versions and your students color or paint (watercolors work well) the life cycles. The life cycles show four stages for the butterfly, chicken, and frog. The stages used are as follows.

The butterfly life cycle includes the butterfly, eggs, chrysalis, and caterpillar. The background shows the countryside.

The frog life cycle includes the frog, frogspawn, tadpole, and froglet. The background shows a pond.

The chicken life cycle includes a nesting chicken, an egg, and hatching chick, and a chick. The background shows a farm. You can find this life cycle craft {HERE}

I also have a Water Cycle Craft {HERE}.
You can find all my life cycle crafts {HERE}.

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Sweet Tea Classroom Teaching Tip: An Easy Way to Integrate Spanish and Science

I am all about teaching across the curriculum. Here's a sweet little teaching tip that you will love that integrates Science, Literature, and Spanish.

I ordered the entire set of Magic School Bus videos and was very happy to make this discovery.

Click Here to find this Magic School Bus DVD set at Amazon

You can choose to watch the videos in English or in Spanish. So, guess what we are doing today for a little practice?



You guessed it. We are watching a Magic School Bus video for the second time in Spanish and the kiddos love it.

Frog and Toad Craft --- Frog and Toad Writing Prompt Craftivity

Frog and Toad Writing Prompt Craftivities..This is a fun way to add a craft to a writing prompt about frogs and toads. There is a craftivity for a frog and a toad in this package. This is a great writing assignment to use when your students are studying the frog life cycle or learning about pond life for a writing/science connection or a science center.

You have lots of options. For the frog and the toad, there is a cover page that includes amphibian's name followed by five different writing prompts. These are prompts that you can print "as is" and the student will decorate/color/paint the frog or toad image and write on the topic.

The prompts for amphibian are as follows:

If a were a Toad (Frog)
All about Toads (Frogs)
T is for Toads/ F is for Frogs
A toad (frog) went on an adventure...
One day at the pond... (one prompt for both)

These same prompts are formatted as write and draw or just a draw prompt. Please see the preview.

Next, you will find the same topics formatted for a page topper. If you choose these prompts, add the frog and toad image and the pond cattails and lily after those prompts. You can will print these page toppers and ask your students to color or paint them.

The last three items for each amphibian are graphic organizers to help with the writing process. Each one has a clustering/web word organizer, a can/have/need chart, and a KWL (Know, Want to Know, Learned) chart. You can find this at my teaching resource store {HERE}.


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Valentine's Day Hat and Black and White Printable Valentine Cards with a Fox

Valentine's Day Hat and Valentine's Day Card Printable Valentines with a Fox: Just print and go with this Valentines Day printable craft.

 Your students will color the Valentine's Hat that reads The Fox Says Happy Valentine's Day.

You can also print the matching black and white Valentine cards for your students to color and share. This Valentine craft is super for a foxy and fun Valentine's party.

Click {HERE} to find this product in my teaching resources store.