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How to Make a Simple Paper Spider in its Web: More DIY Halloween Decorations! First, take a square piece of paper and fold it in half. I usually just start cutting out the spider freehand, but if you prefer, draw the spider on the paper first, like this: Then cut out everything surrounding the spider’s body and legs, leaving a border around the edge. Open it up and there you have it: A creepy paper spider to hang up for Halloween.

5 Free Digital Tools for the No Budget Classroom Something has changed in education content delivery, thanks to companies like Google, Khan Academy, MIT. When these industry leaders (and others) started offering high-quality educational tools for free, more followed. Yesterday’s muffled plea for equality in educational opportunities regardless of economic status is today’s reality. A rising tide raises all ships became a call for action rather than a dreamy quote. This isn’t your mother’s schoolhouse anymore. Think about the transformative teaching that comes from Google Earth, GAFE, Khan Academy, Scratch.

Learn to Draw Animals Print and enjoy our Learn to Draw Animals pages for kids of all ages. Kids can use our step by step illustrations to discover how to draw all sorts of animals and build up their skills and confidence in the process...plus they are just good fun! You could build up a whole folder of these printable pages for rainy days - teachers might even want to laminate them and keep them ready as a time-filler or reward. And of course many of them tie into classroom themes, too. We have over 80 of these animal drawing pages so you are sure to find one that appeals! Explore our learn to draw animals printables below...

Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers Michelle Luhtala/Edshelf With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive list of apps voted on by educators around the country. “I wanted to make sure we had some flexibility because there’s no one app that’s better than all the others,” Luhtala said. Some apps are best for younger students, others are more complicated, better suited for high school students.

Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs.

The Tools to Flip Your Classroom Collection by Jake Duncan edshelf Tools to Flip Your Classroom Curated by Jake Duncan Share: 19 followers 31 tools The David Lubin Art Studio: 1st grade Inspired by the geometric, electric, abstract paintings of artist Sonia Delaunay. This project works with shapes, color, geometry and lots of lines. Good project to help students become more comfortable using a ruler and understanding line direction. DIY: Watercolor Silhouette I took the girls to the zoo this weekend and I had some fun FINALLY experimenting with my zoom lens. It was cool to take some photos of something other than the kids for once. So, I came home with some cool animal shots and I was trying to think of something to do with them here on Prudent Baby. Here is a DIY for these little watercolor silhouettes that I made.

Squarehead Teachers My friend, Rachel, recently helped coordinate this mind-blowing art project at her school: It incorporates so much good stuff into one project! Collaboration, color wheel discussion, self-portrait and drawing principles, and the list goes on. It’s especially cool to see the improvement kids make in drawing as they get older (there were drawings from all grades in the mural). Drawing puppy Click on the picture to get the printable version. Learn how to draw a puppy with simple step by step instructions: Mots-clefs : Animals, Baby animals, Dog, Pets Modern Art Explained In One Comic (16 pics) Have you ever felt lost at your local modern art museum? Modern art can be confusing for many, but this wonderful comic by John Atkinson, the artist behind the Wrong Hands comic, will get you caught up on everything you missed in art class. The comic is in good fun, but some of the representations really aren’t very far off the mark at all. Which art movement do you think his comic does best?

Spider Web Art Project: A Simple (and Beautiful) Watercolor Activity for Kids - Lasso the Moon This easy kids' spider web art projects is brought to you by Jean of The Artful Parent. Spiders and spider webs are a favorite theme to depict as Halloween draws near. We draw and paint spider webs, create spiders out of pom poms and pipe cleaners, and cut spider webs out of paper. Recently, my daughter Daphne has been drawing spider web after spider web on her own and unprompted. I decided to build off of that interest by doing a simple spider web art project with her and a preschool friend using a couple of our favorite watercolor techniques—watercolor resist and salt.

Aerial View Snowmen Oct27 Second grade started their aerial view snowmen this week. Projects like this almost always showcase the kids different personalities.