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 Screen printing is a technique that uses a woven material and a stencil to make a print onto a surface; paper, t-shirt, stickers, vinyl, wood, etc. It is a printing method that is very rarely used in the Elementary classroom because the silk screen itself and other materials are very costly and creating a stencil is a difficult process often requiring a blade.  If you are an art teacher, this is great because besides styrofoam, there are few printmaking techniques that are reasonable for Elementary.   This year I bought some embroidery hoops here  embroidery hoops from Blick  for only $2.59 to attempt to make my OWN kind of silk screens!! Compared to the smallest silk screen frames that start at almost $20, this is awesome!  I bought some white chiffon fabric at $4 a yard and added them to the hoops.  This project is a great way to learn the process of silk screen!!  You will need some fine line p...

With the recent blood moon and lunar eclipse, this lesson fit right in with the season!  When they are finished, they can decorate the outside with construction paper crayons This beautiful and very seasonal art...designed by my 4 yr old with a sharpie, only lasted 2 days...so sad This adorable seasonal sharpie art is two weeks old and showing no signs of decay...clearly you should get yourself some coffee filters and markers and create some awesome seasonal ART today  This is how I tell them how to fold it "First to a taco, then to a pie, third fold's a pizza, now give it a try"                                         I left out the picture of the next step. Color it!                                                     then ................... S...