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Encaustic Art for Children

February 26, 2011 by Kristen Stephens 3 Comments

I’ll give an up front disclaimer…do this craft with your children while you have the time to give them your undivided attention, and you are sure that this is something your children are capable of. I will leave it up to you as to how old you think your children should be…Ok, now on to the great part…this craft rocks! I love the look of the melted crayon drippings, and just the fact that  the children really can be as unique as they want, while also being strangely soothed at the same time is wonderful.  Head over to Craft Knife where she will explain what encaustic art is, as well as exactly how she went about doing the project with her children.

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  1. april says

    February 27, 2011 at 7:27 am

    I can’t find the link for this great share… ???

  2. Tracy says

    February 27, 2011 at 4:06 pm

    And… here’s the link:
    http://craftknife.blogspot.com/2011/02/crayola-crayon-encaustic-art.html

  3. Deb says

    February 27, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    Can you give a link…she has so much on her site, I am going on overload just reading it all…

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Fun Halloween Worksheets for Kids

After sharing some witch themed math activities, I found a bunch more fun printable worksheets with a Halloween theme for kids to try, so let’s take a look at some more low-prep Halloween learning fun. 

Give kids practice measuring bats, spiders, ghosts and more with these printables from What I Have Learned Teaching. Kids can use a ruler, unit cubes or even little Halloween themed erasers to measure and track the size of the images. 

Practice symmetry by drawing half a haunted house, ghost, skull or other simple images with this activity from Printables Hub. 

I always love a good roll and draw activity, too, so check out this roll and draw a ghost activity (which has printable instructions) from Finding Myself Young.

Missy Printable Design has a cute set of Halloween worksheets for preschool, including tracing the letter H and a haunted house, spider counting, number tracing, sequencing, coloring pages and more. 

The Halloween themed printables from The Artisan Life are meant to be playdough mats, and you can definitely use them for that to make the shape and trace the letters. But you could also use pipe cleaners or Wikki Stix, or line up buttons or anything else on them. 

Older kids will enjoy this witch’s brew logic puzzle from Education.com. The witch has made different potions with different colors that do different things, and using the clues you can figure out which one is which. (Don’t worry; there’s an answer key included if you can’t figure it out on your own!)

Another fun puzzle is this decoder activity from Crafting Cheerfully. The holiday icons each represent a letter, and kids can use the decoder to answer the riddle. This isn’t a free resource (and the link in the post is broken but you can find it here) but it includes 20 riddles and an editable file so you can make up your own codes to decipher. 

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