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Color and Learn Worksheets

March 29, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

Recently we’ve added a handful of Color and Learn worksheets to our sister site Preschool Mom, and I wanted to take a minute to show you why they are so popular with our visitors.

Each collection includes a variety of different animals/bugs alongside some amazing and fun facts for children to learn. Some pages include extra activities like footprint identification or beginning writing skills, but mostly they are designed to be no-prep, easy to implement resources you can use in your classroom. In fact, it might be fun for children to create their own fact book featuring each of the different animals.

Color and Learn Farm Animals

A set of seven different color and learn pages, each featuring a baby farm animal, foot prints, and facts for children to learn. These are great for small bits of learning and you can read the facts as your child colors in their page.

Color and Learn Arctic Animals

Children love to learn about animals, especially animals that can survive in the cold harsh arctic tundra! These free arctic animal printables are just right for your winter preschool lessons. Children can learn all about the amazing creatures that thrive in the worlds arctic deserts. This is a great time to tie in some animal science, habitats & biomes as well as seasonal migration patterns and hibernation books.

Color and Learn Insects and Bugs

Children love to learn about all the amazing creepy crawlies in the world around them. Below we’ve created ten different color and learn activity pages filled with fun facts, simple coloring and a space for children to write their own thoughts about the creature. These are fantastic for science units, children can bind them together to create their own booklet to share with friends and family.

Northern Lights, Igloos, & Arctic Art for Kids

December 29, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

With Winter upon us I’ve been busing designing a few Arctic Art Projects for Kids! Today I’ve got two more photo tutorials to add to our collection.

Northern Lights Arctic Art Project for Kids

This is a dreamy way to create a beautiful sunset or Northern lights backdrop for your winter scenes.

Patterned Polar Bear Art Project for Kids

This art project is simple yet stunning and each project turns out so differently. Children work on warm and cool color blocking as well as patterns and design work.

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Patterned Polar Bear Art Project

This is a dreamy way to create a beautiful Arctic sunset or Northern lights backdrop for your winter scenes.

Materials:

Polar Bear Template
Oil Pastels
Sharp Object

Ice Bear: The Arctic World of Polar Bears

This simple yet evocative book explores the polar bear s Arctic home and life cycle. Playful cubs, hungry boars, and intimidating sows Kazlowski’s photographs capture this fascinating species in all its beautiful and fearsome glory. More than 100 full-color images reveal the polar bear s world, as well as the entire Arctic landscape: rugged ice floes, magical aurora borealis, walruses, seals, Arctic foxes and rabbits, beluga whales, and a variety of birds including the snowy owl. Kazlowski also captures the Inuit people and their culture in which the polar bear plays a significant part.

Step 1

Print your polar bear template as a guide. The template includes grey lines separating each shape.

Step 2

Choose cool colors (blues, greens, purples) to color in the shapes of your polar bear.

Step 3

You want a good variety of colors and try not to have the same colors touching eachother.

Step 4

Choose warm colors (reds, oranges, and yellows) and start filling in the shapes of the background.

Step 5

Color in every shape leaving no white space. Make sure you pressed hard enough with your oil pastels to ge a thick layer of color on your paper.

Step 6

You can stop here and frame on black construction paper if you like

Step 7

Or you might want to add in some patterns. Oil pastel can be scratched away to reveal a lighter hue of the same color. This is a great way to add texture and patterns to your polar bear.

Step 8

You can even add in things you might see in an Arctic landscape; iceburgs, winter trees, a full moon, inukshuk, etc....

Northern Lights Igloo Art Project

IglooTitle This is a dreamy way to create a beautiful Arctic sunset or Northern lights backdrop for your winter scenes.

Materials:

Aurora: A Tale of the Northern Lights

Alaskan storyteller and artist Mindy Dwyer has created a magical story of a young girl whose seeking and dreams lead her to a great discovery. The bright, luminous illustrations that accompany the story magically portray this tale of the origin of the Aurora Borealis, the glorious northern lights.