Add a numeracy dimension to light table play with these glittery, squishy animal shapes! Continue reading
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Roll-Up Paper Play Pals
Prepare popular paper play pals! Great for teaching children to follow instructions, practice fine motor skills, and create diverse pals for imaginary play!
Foam Paint Bottles
Explore a range of fun sensory experiences with colorful and exciting Foam Paint using our special dispensing bottles! Continue reading
Accordion Critters Puppet Theatre
Using the Accordion Critters as puppets can be great fun! Students will already be tempted to take their critters around the classroom to let the accordion-folded legs fly through the air. Take these spontaneous creative activities to center stage with a puppet theatre play. Continue reading
Terrific Tree Paper Braided Bookmarks
Make a woven wood Bookmark! Great for teaching children to follow instructions and use fine motor skills in folding. Continue reading
Welcome Back to the New Year!
Now that we’ve rung in the New Year, we are excited to share our ideas with you over the next little while. Stay tuned for blog posts in a range of subjects, using tools that you already have in your classroom!
We hope that you’ve enjoyed a year of posts from Little Fingers Big Art. Here’s a recap of 10 of our favorite posts:
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Use jelly on the Light Cube for a great sensory activity!
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Make lucky four leaf clovers for St. Patrick’s Day, coming up in March!
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Combine letters in a Word Mobile to generate literacy creativity in students!
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Check out this neat step-by-step tutorial on how to make 3D wall art!
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Use our Tube Crafts to make a birdfeeder… or critterfeeder!
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Make beautiful tissue paper birds–a great fine motor skills activity!
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Imagine what dinosaurs really looked like with our Collage-A-Saurus and Dinosaur Paper Sheets!
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Turn old doodle paper into wrapping paper for someone’s birthday or for Christmas time!
These are our top ten for the year! Share your favorite post online with your friends.
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Christmas Tube Gift Boxes
Make beautiful Christmas gift boxes with our R39301 Tube Crafts! Continue reading
Repurposed Brown Paper Art (Christmas Edition)
We always hear about great ways to get kids thinking creatively, while doing some sort of double duty. By this, I mean putting down brown packing paper onto tables to protect the surfaces, while giving kids the ability to draw or doodle to their hearts’ content! Well… what do you do with that paper after it’s all done? Read on for more, but a word of advice: DON’T throw it away!!
Getting Creative with our 60170 Constructa Clips Creative Animal Set!
A few years ago, we spent the day at the Design Exchange Museum in Toronto putting together a few activities with the kids. One of those activities was our R60170 Constructa Clips Safari Animals set, also known as our Creative Animal Set! Check out what the campers made! Continue reading
Four Leaf Clovers
Make your own lucky charm just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! Continue reading
Light Cube: Salad Tray Sorting
Sorting interesting items in a see-through tray on the Light Cube is a great way to focus students on the task at hand. Instead of being distracted by a surrounding environment, each child will deliberately place the items on the sorting tray, using the glow of the Light Cube as their focal point. Continue reading
Christmas Tree Heart Mosaics
Christmas is a month away, but what better way to get into the holiday spirit than to build your own tree on paper using our R15367 Heart Mosaics! Continue reading
