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Sorry, not an elementary art post by any means but a fun post about mushrooms. This just springboards off a previous post of the red spotted mushrooms my students created. My teaching partner, who knows my love of this mushrooms, gave me this for Christmas, it is a mushroom smoker from Germany. You put a small incense cone inside and it smokes out the chimney. I just love red mushrooms! I

Just a little project that my 8 year old and I created. We found the inspiration on Pinterest-  Had a blast measuring, balancing and cutting the wood. Who said Crafty projects are not important! LOL May you have a wonderful Holiday Season and a Blessed New Year! Laura

Third grade students created these beautiful painted paper spotted mushrooms  inspired by Helene over at Dutch Sisters.  We viewed various Fairy Tale illustrations and the sweet little red-spotted mushrooms found amongst the grasses and trees in the forest land. Students loved finding them hidden through out the stories. Week one: Students selected 12 x 18 white drawing paper, then

So you have yarn cones, just not sure what to do with them?  Create a forest of trees! Yarn Cones are cones that yarn was stored on We used 12 x 18 painted paper, traced our hands on the unpainted side and cut, cut, cut. the hands out. Next we glued the hand down started at the bottom and working up. Lastly, we used the extra scraps cut, curled then glued them down. Since we have started

It is so fun to see the beautiful painted paper that my 2nd graders and MD unit created. We looked at the color wheel and discussed how colors placed next to each other on the wheel, analogous colors, complement each other.  Do you see the continent of Africa? We did! Next we discussed about color mixing and how colors across from each other on the wheel make "brown and muddy"