Author: Kelly
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Artisan Beading: Square Stitch for Beginners
Beading Background Hi, yes… it’s me. I’m the beginner. Of course, I’m not laying claim to being the very first beginner, or the last, but for the entirety of this year, I failed at this skill. How did I come upon beading, you ask? I’ve always admired it. I think the first time I paid… Read more
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How To Make a Puzzle Using Coloring Pages
Puzzles Are Teaching Tools As a teacher, there is an ongoing challenge to create meaningful scholarly activities without breaking the bank. If you’re a teacher, you get this. I am not only an art teacher but also an Applied Behavior Analysis Therapist (ABAT) for preschoolers with special needs, and a mother to my own awesome… Read more
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How I Made Emma Frost’s Costume
It’s story time friends! Thanks for making it over to this post. Last I left off, I was giving directions on how to make the Emma Frost Fortnite skin as a wearable costume. I decided to separate the story from the creation due to its length out of respect for my readers. The reason is… Read more
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Emma Frost Costume: How to Make It Yourself
For those that don’t play Fortnite, Emma Frost is a character in the X-Men comics. Albeit, my daughter didn’t know anything about her until Chapter 5: Season 4 came out. When it did, she played through, gaining this character before anyone else in our family. By the time September rolled around, she knew she wanted… Read more
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Do it Yourself: How to Create Costumes By Hand
I am not a seamstress by any means. I quite literally broke onto the sewing by hand scene a couple years ago when I made my daughter’s Halloween costume. It wasn’t my first time making a costume necessarily, but it was the first time I had to figure it out without crocheting it. My daughter… Read more
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How To Make Felt Butter Pads
Once again, if there’s a need, there’s a way and in this case, I needed pads of butter for pretend play in preschool. Whether your kids are like mine and love to pretend to cook or you’re looking for a durable material that will last over the years to come, this design is it. I… Read more
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New Ideas on How to Teach a Unit on Bees
Encountering Bees As A Person and A Parent: For a long time, I was, dare I say, afraid of bees. It didn’t matter what kind they were either. If they buzzed like a bee, flew like a bee, stung like a bee… it was a bee. I generalized this species in the smallest place in… Read more
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How to Create A Lesson Plan for Student Learning Standards
Here we’ll be reviewing how to set up a lesson plan to cover (NJ) Core Curriculum Content Standards. This used to be a no-brainer for me as a teacher of many fields. Lesson planning itself is like opening a gateway into building new connections through a solid foundation of “know-how” and “can-do” spirit that has… Read more
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How To Make Spiced Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Cake Bites
Before we get started, I did post links to what I found helpful. I’m not affiliated with them but it would be nice to be one day. 🙂 Have you ever been asked to participate in a bake sale? The idea of making things within a list may seem daunting but the overall fundraising for… Read more
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Gardening Hack: Chop and Drop
Just mentioning here that there are links to examples of what I’m referring to in my post that are not I am not affiliated with. It would be great, however, they’re just at a glance examples. ️ When cleaning up plant waste, have the patience to cut it down into mulch sized pieces, before leaving… Read more