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101 Creative Christmas Classroom Door Decorations - Chaylor & Mads
The best ideas for creative Christmas classroom door decorations including funny ideas, ideas with kids, preschool ideas and ideas for teachers so you can win the Christmas door decorating contest this year!
Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss, you will land among the stars. ~Les Brown.....Watercolor resist stars and moon on dark blue paper with oil pastel swirl. By Kindergarteners
"About Me" Portrait Art Pieces.
We complete these in the beginning of the school year, and then again at the end! :: HOW TO: Each child is able to pick a colored sheet of paper, and different colored markers, gel crayons, oil pastels, and chalk pastels. They have complete freedom to color (however they want) all of their paper. Each art piece is unique to each child. Next, I take a photo of each child pretending to yell. I import their artwork, photograph, and answers (see below) into Photoshop and compile everything to create a beautiful portrait piece. :: For our 3-5 year olds: I ask each child these questions about themselves: What is this your name? How old are you? What do you like to eat? What is something you think is yucky (or what is something that makes you sad?)? What do you like to do? What do yo