Little Bo Peek and Humpty Dumpty Clip Art

I love making clip art and I made these on my Ipad Pro with an apple pencil. This set was made on procreate. I have used Illustrator and Photoshop, but I don't find them as easy to use as Procreate. I hope you enjoy these little clips.

Little Bo Peep was inspired by a recent trip to Dannevirk in New Zealand. There we went to the Fantasy Cave where they feature a range of theatrical figues in set in scenes from well known nursery rhymes to fairy tales. They were amazing and they were right up our alley due to our background in theatre. The lighting was fabulous as well.

It was very reasonable price only $7 for adults and less for kids. It took about half an hour to go around everything. But if it was full it would probably take longer. As it was there was myself and my husband in the place, but it was well worth going in.

Here is my version of little Bo Peep from their version.

Little Bo Peek Clip Art TPT

Now I also decided to make one other clip art set and it was Humpty Dumpty. I like funny characters so I made this set using a variety of positions from Humpty's perspective. Hope you enjoy. 

Watching they shall not grow old

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BFG Collaborative Coloring Posters

So are you studying the BFG by Roald Dahl? Isn't it time to make a fab poster which incorporates
the whole class! Look no further! Included is this set of 35 mini tiles for stduetns to color, cut out and assemble into a large poster.

This idea incorporates cooperation, Math and Literacy!

Print the seven pages including the example setout page (grid) and place where they should go. Once done, assemble by pasting onto large paper, or blue tac on to backing paper. You could also tape up the backsides of the papers together and display.

Students love this fun activit

y and it is so easy to put together! 

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Free Ideas Page Giveway!

Free Ideas page Giveaway for you, yes you! Okay, who doesn't like free stuff? You? No way, we all love free gifts and this is no exception.

I have put together this really cute ideas page for students, teachers and creatives people to put together their great ideas down on a computer or on hard copy by printing.

This is a free sheet which I have created using my free hand and a good black sketching pen. I hope you enjoy it. Please check out my blog and store for other great freebies and great resources. Oh and did I tell you I also have a store in Etsy. That is where I let my creative genes go wild. So included there are digital games, adult coloring pages, clip art and other digital goodies.

Enjoy.

The following is a treat sheet I put together for fun. I hope you enjoy! If you would like this free please click on the link and it will take you to the page where you can download (Teachers Pay Teachers). Or you can drag off the page onto your destop. 

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If you would like this free please click on the link and it will take you to the page where you can download (Teachers Pay Teachers). Or you can drag off the page onto your destop. 

Mother's Day IdeasTo do With Students

Great Mother's Day Activities

It's Mother's Day coming up and what do you have planned for your little kiddos? Not much I hear you say? Well I've decided to throw some fabulous ideas below for your viewing pleasure. You might get inspired or it might even lead to do something unique and amazing, I guess that's why I love Pinterest because it seems they have it all.

If you're a classroom teacher and wondering what brilliant craftivity to do with the kids look no further!!

Kindergarten Aged Children

Mother's Day Idea One

I found this really cute idea where students write in chalk their I love you message and throw themselves in the middle for a photograph. Simple but pretty effective if you ask me. I know, I know thank me later.

Even lookie at this idea. 

You could take photos and print them and mount them on colored card to send home to mom/mum.
Here is another great idea very similar to the one above.

Mother's Idea Two

Many parents have some excellent cupcake wrappings at home. You may also have a variety of buttons or an old cardigan ready to be chucked away. Why not cut the buttons off. Then get your students, children and or grandchildren together and they can make this excellent idea. Bright colorful and on point.

I heart crafty things: click on the picture

Mother's Day Ideas Three 

This idea I love because it involves students writing about their mum or female caregiver and she is depicted as a super hero. Craft involves cutting, pasting, assembly and writing. This might take two sessions at least to complete.

Lauren Fairclough, click to her TPT store

Mother's Day Idea Four

This is a nice simple handprint idea for teachers to make the template up themselves. All you need to do is to draw an outline of a hand and make it into a tree. Draw little hearts around it on a US letter sized paper and have students make this little beauty up. If I was having student make this, I would get them to color them in first rather than use colored card.   

Mother's Day Idea Five

And I love this idea, very, very simple to do. Two different colored paints, a marker and white paper. You can have young students make this beauty up. Click on the picture to take to the blog which has the instructions. 

Bunch Mother's Day card

Mother's Day Idea Six

Coloring in a bookmark like this one and giving it as a voucher. How cool is that?

Coloring Vouchers

Printable and Easy to Assemble Envelopes and Note Paper

So I decided to make my own set of unique envelopes to download immediately. I wanted to create that cute factor and made six different sizes, from the standard small card size to tiny versions. The tiny envelopes also have notepaper to go with them. These are really for decorating personal scrapbook pages.


They look very cute, but did take a lot of time to make from using Photoshop for sizing, to using Power point for inserting as a pdf and making thumbnails.


I do like them myself and am keen to use in my personal projects. Well I will be inserting my photos and other examples from online and especially pinterest.


Hope you enjoy!

Flower Displays, Craft for the Classroom

Okay so I love crafts and always will. I found this amazing craft of the growth of a Daffodil flower and I thought I'd post it here on my blog. This is fabulous because it has a 3-D effect and what kid doesn't love 3-D? It has actual seeds in the middle as well. A lovely resource.


Do check out my Facebook account for more amazing crafts both school related and for adults.

Similar ideas with links. This is a larger craft completed
by a child. This is also really well done.

                                                                                 

And of course this little classroom beauty!  Original post.

Rocky shore or Tidal Pools Mini Diorama

Hi guys, it's been a while since my last post. But I am very excited about this great little theatre piece or should I say diorama I put together. This is perfect for studies on the Rocky shore or Tidal Pools. I love the clip art done by Educlips. 

This comes both in black and white as well as color. This is very children as young as 7 to 11. All depending on the classroom and age levels mind you. 

Please enjoy the short video I put together.

Rockyshore product only $2.99

Digital Stamps for Etsy Stores and Redesign for Fun Creatives Logo

Digit Stamps are great to use in cards, scrap booking or even in collages. I've put a couple of my favorite digital art as stamps in my Etsy store so I thought I'd paste them here. Enjoy.

Monarch Butterfly Stamp at Etsy

Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh at Etsy

I also designed my new Fun Creatives logo. Very easy to do, I did this in Power Point and used the shapes and great font by KG Fonts. Great fonts, although a little pricey at $5 per font. However they are of high quality. Check them out on Teachers pay Teachers.

Anicent Greece Clip Art

I love Greek Theatre and especially the ancient theatre including masks, and the playrights. I've included a number of great Greek clips here which can be used in a variety of ways.

I have taught Greek Theatre including comedy to adult students and had a ball filming them in short scenes. This was one of my favorite things to do.

I also had a great Anicent Greece Book and flicked through it and found some great inspirational images in which I have included here in my own interpretation.

Hope you enjoy checking out Fun Creatives.

Do come back for more ideas and fun.

Ancient Greek Clip Art

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ancient-Greek-Clip-Art-3418800

$1.00 Newsletter Editable Templates for the Classroom

Woop, woop! I have just created these cute Newsletter Templates which are editable. These are already formatted in WORD so are ready to open and write in you text. I have also included the same sets in png format. This allows teachers and administrators to insert into Power Point and edit there if that is what they prefer.

What I like about these, is that the are organic and raw which remind me of school children anyway. These aren't your slick willy templates, but are perfect for that classroom teacher who loves to share information wih their students and their families.

I am really looking forward to making more editable templates and the mind is going round and round with ideas. If you have any great ideas, be sure to pop them in the comments section below.

Love ya later!

$1.00 Worksheet Templates Unique and Original- So Fun to Do

Hey guys, for some reason I have an obsession with putting together interesting worksheets, so I've put some together in my shop Fun Creatives. I love hand drawn frames so I purchased some and also made some of my own and inserted them to make worksheet templates for sale in my shop.

I have also put together a set of blank task card templates which are very versitile and fun to use. I can't wait to use them myself.

More, more, more, I'm getting obsessed with making more. Keep tuned to my shop peeps as I'll be adding more!

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Oh and not forgetting the new task card templates!!!

I have been working on this cute set of the BFG for a few days now and finally have it ready to post here and on the Teachers Pay Teachers site.

I read the book with students  last year and they loved the book. I thought why not add a set to TPT, infact the interesting thing is I noticed one other set, which was great too. But I thought why not add another set for interest.

I made another set of Matilda the other day and put that up in my store, and also made a digital pack of Matilda on Teachers Pay Teachers as well. We did a study of Matilda and we loved it. I just wish I had thought to put the pack together earlier for the study.

Oh well you live and learn.

Thanks.

The BFG Clip Art at TPT

Color By Number or Answers product

I've been meaning to make this resource for a long, long time and finally I've done it. I am keen as mustard to use it this week in my class. Can't wait for the feedback with my kiddies.

These will be used over and over again for my teaching program. I love doing these myself.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Color-by-Number-Multiplication-from-2x-to-12x-Timestables-3197915

Paperless and Digital Literacy Resources in the Classroom

 Paperless and Digital Literacy Resources in the Classroom

Hello teachers and homeschool parents, I would like to introduce you to my new digital or paperless resources for Google Suite or Google Drive. This resource is based on Roald Dahl's book Matilda.

The resource is packed with interesting literacy activities with no prep and it allows students to
independently research and write in their own answers. No need to print or photocopy and then distribute individually. This saves on printing and hard work. Very little prep is needed for this pack.

Newest digital resource from Fun Creatives

Although I personally love to use hard copy resources and have students literally write and cut and paste information into books, I have really taken to having a variety of both digital or paperless and hard copy resources. This gives students options to choose or the teacher can choose how students will complete.

This pack comes as a pdf so can be uploaded into Googledrive/classroom/Seesaw etc or it can be printed out and photocopied per sheet.

I can't wait to see what to make next. I am really enjoying making these resources. I feel I will delve into the BFG next as I love that book as well.

Thanks for taking a look, let me know how I can improve this product.

Thanks. 

Facts About the Water Cycle

Facts About the Water Cycle

Here is an easy way of teaching facts about the water cycle to your students. Please read the water cycle terms and their explanation beside them. 

Evaporation: s a type of vaporization of a liquid that occurs from the surface of a liquid into a gaseous phase that is not saturated with the evaporating substance. The other type of vaporization is boiling, which is characterized by bubbles of saturated vapor forming in the liquid phase.

Precipitation: The product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, and hail.

Condensation:  is the change of the physical state of matter from gas into liquid, and is the reverse of evaporation. 

Runoff:  is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.

Vapor:  is the gaseous phase of water.

Transpiration: is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers. 

Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil. 

 Percolation: refers to the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials.

These terms were sourced through Wikipedia and amended for younger children to read.

The facts about the water cycle are easy to understand the teach in the classroom.

This is an example of the water cycle which you can teach your students.

The clouds have condensed to much, that they released rain which has fallen into the Ocean, river, lake or body of water. This water is heated up by the energy from the sun and it evaporates into a vapour which begins to form clouds. Due to other atmospheric conditions, the clouds form into larger, heavier clouds and the pressure is released in forms of sleet, know, rain, and snow. The cycle continues around and around. 

To get your set of diagrams and clip art to make your own  Facts about the water cycle, please click on this link for purchase the set. My sets are very inexpensive and I hope you enjoyed this page. 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Water-Cycle-Clip-Art-and-Diagrams-2833370

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Student Choice in Their Learning

Why do children love choice in their academic work, well they just do. Think about it  if your principal asked you to do something according to the book at precisely the same time each day, wouldn't you think it's time to change it up? Well it's the same with children. They need choice. 

When I first began teaching which was about 15 years ago, I taught according to the prescribed mode. That means Reading, Writing and Math were at particular times of the day and all class members had to do the subject as I saw fit. But that is how I was trained and that's the way I thought would work. For me I found this system draining and the children themselves did not enjoy the routine day in and day out. 

During my professional development time with a particular North Auckland School we were part of a school cluster which shared information and ideas. One day we had a day of lectures, workshops and teaching which we elected to do. One of these Lectures involved an Australian Principal who explained the way her students learned and teachers taught. Essentially the students dictated the learning. They choose the curriculum subjects and objectives they wanted to learn. The teachers became facilitators rather than teachers. The students called them by their first name.
So then in my classroom I decided to try and implement these ideas into my classroom. I photocopied a number of learning sheets and wrote down a number of topic ideas for the children to choose to complete by the end of the that period. Now remember this was radical teaching for me at that stage. How did it work? It worked pretty well actually. Yes there are those kids who are unfocused and don't complete all the learning material by a set point, but what it did is it gave students choice in their learning. The students themselves told me they preferred this method because they felt they had some sense of control. For me it was great in that the class were on task, doing topics they wanted to do first and then knew what to  do once they finished. 

Fast forward 10 years and what do I see? In many classes in Hastings at least, I see a number of classes who have combined together. That means two classes as one. The students design their timetable for the day and get on with their morning or day work. If I the teacher can help I do. Of course while independent learning is going on, the teachers take reading, writing and math workshops. This enables students to opt to take classes which they feel will aid them. 

The jury is out whether I like the two classroom idea. I prefer the once classroom idea really. There just seems to be bodies everywhere in this system. It's slightly easier for the teacher because it is two people planning the classroom learning. But sometimes it's nice of have control over what it is you want to teach students yourself and not give it up to another teacher. 

New Math Resource for Pre-Kindergarten Kids

I was teaching in a Year zero or Kindergarten classroom the other day and luckily I was given heads up on what the teacher wanted to me to do. I made a couple of great one page printables where I taught the kids about healthy teeth. You can check out my page and download it for free in my Teachers Pay Teachers shop. The actual post is in the previous post.

 Math Numbers Cut and Paste Activities.

But this got me thinking, I decided to focus some of my resource making on Pre-Kindergarten as the American's like to call it or Year One's as us Kiwis like to call it. I love puzzles and cut and paste activities. So I decided to do a bit of research and found ideas about how to make puzzles and cut and paste ideas work. I made the following math activity where kids cut out the pictures and paste them on a puzzle to cut and paste and then assemble. Sure at first it will be a bit of work for the kids, but after a few, they will get the idea.

At least I know have some resources for Math for kids this age in the future. I quite enjoyed teaching these little people and I am looking forward to teaching that age group again.

Now the behaviour of some of the kids in the other classroom was another story altogether and some day I will discuss that in future blogs. Thanks for being here and viewing my blog. You can check out the 20 page Cut and Paste puzzle activities here.