Easy Mother’s Day Art Project

Combine learning about color mixing with making a fun Mother’s Day project with this idea from The Educator’s Spin on It.

When I first saw it I thought this was done with tape resist, but it’s actually a printable you can cut out and tape to the paper before kids paint.

Experiment with using watercolors, dot markers, regular markers, regular paint or other media to see how the colors mix. Work on it alongside reading a book about colors (she talks about Mouse Paint in the post, which is a really cute one) or just leave the supplies in the art area for kids to explore for themselves.

Check out all the details and grab the printable at The Educator’s Spin on It.

[Photo: The Educator’s Spin on It.]

Looking for art supplies? Check out these art Easels for kids.

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Summer Reading Printables and Tips for Parents

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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