Tutorial Tuesday

Well, I have no guest bloggers scheduled for today, so I thought I would share a couple of tutorials I have posted in the past.

DIY Feltboard

Texture Sequencing Sticks

Fuzzy Caterpillar

Enjoy and have fun creating!

Thinky Linky Thursday

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Here are the featured links from last week:

Homemade Glow in the Dark Paint 

from Train Up a Child

Practical Life Projects for Upper Elementary

from Mama of Many Blessings

Bugs and Butterflies Unit

from Sunflower and Sprout

Congrats and I am pretty sure all the winners already have my "featured" button, so good luck this week to everyone else. We need some more competition!

My Very First Tutorial- Fuzzy Caterpillar

Here is a caterpillar I made out of pipe cleaners. Very easy and the kids can make them or you can make them for use with a board game. It can be used with the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. The photos are pretty self explanatory.

Have fun and I hope your kiddos love this book as much as I do!

Head on over and link up to For Love of Cupcakes' blog hop, Make Yourself Monday!

Dollar Store Diva

Here are some of the new items I have bought or made for the classroom and how I will use them.

Dollar Tree: $1. Not sure if these will stay in the classroom or if I will be tempted to bring them home and use for scrapbooking ;) These would make excellent frames for children's work to hang in the hallway or border for a sign. Or just put them in the art area, so the children can use their own creativity with them.

Spinner! Dollar Tree: $1 (Is there anything that's NOT $1 in Dollar Tree?) Anyways, this can have many uses. I love how big it is with the big numbers and colorful sections. We will probably put this to use with some homemade board games.

Ok, so I did use materials from our resource room at work, these are all things that can be purchased from a dollar store. Caterpillars for use with the Eric Carle book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. More to come on The Very Hungry Caterpillar! So, stay tuned!!!