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Making a Classroom Quilt: Printables!

April 21, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

 

Yup, just for you!

QuiltPin

We’ve got ABC’s, 123’s, and everything in between!

You can print it all FREE!

Wondering how to use the printables?

It couldn’t be eaiser!

 


Print up a set of Classroom Quilt Printables.  You can use regular paper, if children are coloring with markers or watercoloring you might use cardstock instead.


Print up a set of Classroom Quilt Printables. You can use regular paper, if children are coloring with markers or watercoloring you might use cardstock instead.

NOTE:  Some of our Classroom Quilt printables even come with optional handwriting practice on the side.  You can instruct children to cut this part off first, write their name on it and turn it in.


NOTE: Some of our Classroom Quilt printables even come with optional handwriting practice on the side. You can instruct children to cut this part off first, write their name on it and turn it in.

Have each child color in their own quilt square.  Have them write their names on the back.


Have each child color in their own quilt square. Have them write their names on the back.

Have each child cut out their own quilt square.  There are easy cut dotted lines around the square.


Have each child cut out their own quilt square. There are easy cut dotted lines around the square.

Show children how to slide their square into the correct pocket.


Show children how to slide their square into the correct pocket.


This is the Quilt Pocket Chart we use, however any bulletin board or blank wall space works too!

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Stand back and enjoy your classroom quilt!  These look amazing when they are filled up with children's artwork!


Stand back and enjoy your classroom quilt!
These look amazing when they are filled up with children’s artwork!

 

Like our Classroom Quilt Pocket Chart?
Here’s where we got it!

Ready to make your own?

Click Here for ALL of our Classroom Quilt Printables

ABC Quilt

123 Quilt

Alphabet Animals Quilt

Butterfly Quilt

Christmas Quilt

Community Helpers Quilt

Earth Day

Easter Quilt

Farm Animal Quilt

Seasons Quilt

 

Want to suggest a theme?

Have an idea for using these in the classroom?

Leave us a comment below!


Filed Under: Animal Crafts, Butterfly Printables, Christmas Printables, Classroom Projects, Coral Reef Crafts, Creation Crafts, Earth Day Crafts, homeschool printables, Preschool Printables Tagged With: alphabet, classroom quilt, coloring, free, handwriting, homeschool, numbers, pocket chart, printables, teacher resources

Aquarium Notebooking Pages

February 13, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick 12 Comments

Today I wanted to THANK all of our Crafty Classroom subscribers by offering a special freebie!

This is a HUGE set of Aquatic Animal notebooking pages.
Over 30 different creatures, each with their own facts sheet and coloring page.

About this set:
This set includes printable notebooking pages and coloring pages for different animals children might learn about at the aquarium. These pages are a great way for children to research and copy basic facts about each creature. The coloring sheets provide children an opportunity to learn about the animals colors and unique markings. If you have younger children, the coloring pages are also a wonderful way to help them learn about aquatic animals.

Originally, I drafted a few pages to go alongside our local aquarium inhabitants, The Oregon Coast Aquarium. However, I decided to add in a few extra animals interesting creatures that are featured at many aquatic centers over the U.S. Additionally, if you find that your child is interested in an animal that isn’t listed, there are blank notebooking pages they can customize themselves.


Children’s Ocean Animal Encyclopedia

Suggested use:
These pages are wonderful for before or after your aquarium trip. Even if you can’t squeeze in a field trip, there are many wonderful books and online resources for children to learn about the animals at their local aquarium. Most aquatic centers have a website with photos and facts about the animals they care for. As with most of our notebooking pages, I would recommend storing them in a three ring binder, or investing in a binding machine if you use notebooking methods across multiple subjects.

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a very large file, and I would expect some heavy traffic this week.
The link you receive to download won’t expire, so if you’re having trouble downloading you might try again later when things settle down.

Additionally, if you’d rather not subscribe, or you just want one or two pages, I also offer this set available in single page format. (Only Subscribers are offered a simple one click download)

Stay tuned for more homeschool freebies!

Filed Under: Aquarium, Coloring Pages, Coral Reef Crafts, homeschool printables, Notebooking Printables, Ocean Crafts, Shell Crafts Tagged With: animals, aquarium, fact sheet, field trip, homeschool, notebooking, ocean, ocean coloring pages, ocean unit study, pages, preschool, printables, thematic, worksheets

Preschool Printables: SeaShells!

January 27, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 4 Comments


Yes, I realize that were in the middle of Winter.

But all the more reason, I say!

Sometimes we can go a bit stir crazy spending so much time indoors,
playing the same games, finishing up the same puzzles,
and coloring the same coloring books.

Sometimes it’s fun just to have a completely NEW activity to keep us busy.

During these times I usually slip on my heavy socks
and head out to the garage in search of a long lost treasure.

Well, this wintery week I re-found our gigantic box of shells!
(Here in the photo they are in a nicely ventilated mesh bag, which is how they came when I bought them. BUT over the last year I have been storing them in a tightly sealed rubbermaid…….just keep this in mind as you read)

What a find! I was so excited.
Monkey is at the perfect level to begin sorting shells,
and I began to grow giddy inside thinking of all the hours he would spend enjoying this activity. Hours NOT SPENT jumping on the couch, flying through the screen door, or turning my kitchen drawers into his on personal step stool system.

And then I figured that while he was so busy with the shells,
I might have some time to sip a latte and catch on my latest kindle freebie.

So I brought the rubbermaid into the house, gathered all the children around the kitchen table and announced that I had something REALLY FUN to do today!!

And here is where I will just share a little tip: When you pack away your garage treasures for the year, be sure that you put them in whilst they are COMPLETELY DRY. If you mistakenly put them away wet…..you run the risk of opening them up the following year to find an obnoxiously foul smelling rotten starfish.

NO I DID NOT TAKE A PICTURE FOR YOU.

And even though my children were really excited about the extremely disgusting rotten starfish, I kept picturing (and smelling) mold spores invading our little lungs so I promptly announced that we are going to watch CARTOONS TODAY!

YIPPEE.

While they watched, I scrubbed.
And after a few rounds of bleach, we were again ready to play with our seashells.

And we sorted and sorted to our hearts content.
We marveled at all of the beautiful colors, patterns and designs that God has created.
Natural Learning was going good.

And then came the questions.

Like, “What’s this one called Mom?” and, “Oh! This one is really pretty, what’s the name of this kind of shell Mom?” and, “Mom, how come you don’t know the name of any of these shells?”

Sigh.

So off to google we went and spent HOURS researching all sorts of different seashells. Not only was it difficult identifying the shells that we had, but sometimes one website would call it by three different names. We almost gave up completely…. but eventually settled on what we thought was the best name for each of the shells. And then (so we’d remember) I made some fun printables to go alongside them.

(Just in case you missed that little hidden confession I’ll spell it out for you here: I could be COMPLETELY WRONG about the names of these shells…..but they wouldn’t stop hounding me for names…..I had to do SOMETHING! Feel free to change the names around to whatever you like)

So anyway, after an ENTIRE day spent preparing this activity,
(a day in which my children were enthralled by seashell research)
we finally got to actually spend time sorting the shells:

At first I thought….what a mess of a lesson.
Did it really take ALL DAY to get to this point.

But then I remembered that learning to love learning is probably a more important lesson anyway.

And today was Child-led learning at it’s finest, So
I suppose my kindle can wait till tomorrow. :)

Click Here for our SeaShell Printables

Here are some related activities we’ve done over the years:

Ocean/Beach Crafts & Activities
She Sells Seashells Activity
Rocks & Minerals Discovery Day
Make Your own Fossils

Filed Under: Coral Reef Crafts, Hands-On-Learning, homeschool printables, Ocean Crafts, Preschool Printables, Rocks & Minerals, Shell Crafts

Sandpaper Starfish

March 31, 2009 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment


Well, we couldn’t keep the Oil Pastels put away for very long! They’re just too much fun, and too perfect for the Coral Reef theme we’ve been learning about.

This time we added in a little “Sandy” fun, to learn more about Starfish. We’ve checked out this book from our local library, aptly named, “Starfish” by Edith Thacher Hurd.

Starfish Craft

So we got to decorating our sandpaper, using the oil pastels. The colors came out very vibrant, and fun! Then we cut them into Starfish shapes, and made a little paper collage with a decorative place to write some starfish facts on the side.

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We used this spot for Sissy to make a Starfish Adjective Acrostic…is that what they’re called? You know, where you think of an Adjective for each letter in the word “Starfish”….I can’t remember.

Anyway, whatever it’s called, it was a really fun way to think of some descriptive words about these beautiful creatures.

Click Here for Full Photo Instructions for this Starfish Craft

Filed Under: Coral Reef Crafts Tagged With: classroom activities, classroom crafts, educational crafts, ocean crafts, printables, sea, starfish craft

Sea Creature Fan Book

March 26, 2009 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment


Today we expanded our learning about Coral Reefs, by reading all about the amazing creatures that inhabit them. (We’re still reading Coral Reefs by Gail Gibbons) My children loved to ask “What’s this one called?”…”What’s this one?” as we turned each page. Everytime Bubba …who is 3….heard a name with “Shark” he’d say, “Oh, I like that one” and Sissy preferred the many kinds of starfish, and anemones….and clownfish “Because I’m good at drawing those”

So, since they both had their favorites, I figured out a way for them to make a fun little Sea Creature Fan book, where they can keep the names, and pictures of the ones they love.

Coral Reef Craft

These turned out really neat, you can
Click Here to read all about Sissy’s Fan Book.

Filed Under: Coral Reef Crafts Tagged With: coral reef craft, kids crafts, ocean crafts

Coral Reef Creatures

March 25, 2009 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

Last week at the library we picked up this amazing book by Gail Gibbons. I’m sure the name sounds familiar because she is the author / illustrator of over 50 children’s books. Anyway, this was one of those “spur of the momement’ type of learning oppurtunities.

Coral Reef Crafts

We weren’t really planning on learning about Coral Reefs, but the book was sitting atop of the children’s bookshelf, and it was just calling out to me………..

“Pick Me!….Pick Me!….

I’ll teach your children all about God’s amazing creation!

Look at all my beautiful pictures…. read the simple yet informative text written upon my pages……

Your children will spend hours reading me, and looking at all the detailed pictures, ……they’ll beg you to tell them what the name of each amazing creature is………….

and come on…I’m free for 2 weeks….If you don’t like me, you can bring me back, drop me off and never think about me again.”

“Yes….Yes, I will pick you little library book……At least someone thought you were special enough to display on top of all the others. Yes, you will serve us well. I’ve got big plans for you already. In the the bag you go”

And thus began our learning about Coral Reefs. The amazingly intricate and intoxicating beauty that lies just below the surface of many of the worlds oceans. God has shown his glory with the details and the variety of creatures that we are learning about…..and it’s even more amazing to think that only He knows of some of those creatures mankind has yet to discover.

And I must say that my children are enthralled as well. Today we read about coral, and sea anemones. Then we worked on these vibrant sea anemone collages.

Coral Reef Craft

Click Here to read all about Sissy’s Sea Anemone Collage

Filed Under: Coral Reef Crafts

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