School art activities

Kim McLeod | The Best Ideas for Kids on Instagram: "Q-TIP PAINTED HANDPRINT TREES 🌳 ✋ Follow me @bestideasforkids for more fun activities for kids! 🦋 This one is so simple to do and I love the final result! Just tie some q-tips together with an elastic. Dip into paint and stamp onto paper. I added a handprint for the tree trunk before I started stamping. To paint in between the branches use 1 q tip and stamp to fill the space or let kids stamp overtop the handprint (both will look great!)…

Well, my friends. The time has come...it's back to school we go! For many of us, anyway. I know some of y'all kept on teachin' until, like, the end of June which is absolutely WILD to me. First of all, the temperature here in Tennessee during that time of year is literally the surface of the sun. I cannot imagine trying to teach, let alone put kids on a bus, in that type of heat. And, second, let's be real: I'm tapped out come May. Okay...I'll be for-real for-real...I'm tapped out the week…

Make a pretty DIY tissue paper sunflower craft with kids. This will make a beautiful art piece to hang in their bedroom or playroom.

Here's a STEM challenge that kids will love! Challenge kids to design and build their own working carnival games out of cardboard boxes.

Fish paper craft

Take the kids on a nature walk and collect leaves to make this gorgeous leaf butterfly! Kids will love painting leaves to reveal the wings.