Paper Towel Butterflies

Let's make Paper Towel Butterflies!

Reader's Theater

Put on a show using Reader's Theater Scripts from your favorite stories. Or write your own script!

Paper Towel Possibilities

  

What can make rockets, butterflies, marionettes, or flutes? Paper towel rolls, of course!

Paper Plate Possibilities

    

 What can YOU do with a paper plate? 

Painting: Outside the Box

We usually paint with paper and paint brushes, right? Well what if we didn't? What else could we paint with?

Here's some ideas...how about we paint some sticks...

or paint with leaves...

Let's think outside the box! What else can YOU come up with?

Wondermind

Wander through the many wonders of your mind at Wondermind.

Spyglass Telescope

Spyglass Telescope

KidsConnect

Connect with your local library to get going this summer. Listen to stories on Tumblebooks, play games at the Web Arcade, participate in the 2012 summer reading program, learn how to produce a movie, create a blog, and type at Camp Savvy, or stretch out under the maple tree with your favorite summer reads!

You can borrow books, videos, and music online and they will deliver it right to your door! Or schedule a library visit with Mom to peruse the shelves. What library programs or events do you want to attend? Let Mom know so we can go, go, go!

Musee du Louvre

The Louvre is one of the largest and most visited art museums in the world! Located in Paris, France the museum resides in Palais du Louvre. The Palais du Louvre began as a fortress and was built under the reign of Philip II in the late 12th century. Currently, the Louvre houses nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century! Learn more about the Louvre and the history it holds by taking a virtual tour of Musee du Louvre.

Online Interactive Art

Visit the Art Zone at the National Gallery of Art for Kids to create interactive art!

Mystery Messages

Create a game using mystery messages. Write your messages on white paper using white crayons. Then use watercolor paint to reveal the secret notes.

En Plein Air...

En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is used to describe the act of painting outdoors. The famous artists Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir enjoyed painting en plein air.

Become Inspired

Visit the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam here  to learn more about the famous artist and view his works. Explore Claude Monet's virtual art gallery here. View some of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's works....

or learn more about Renoir here.

Create

Now take your paper, paints, and imagination outside to paint en plein air.

Welcome to the Theater...

Let's create our own puppet theater and put on a show!
katydiddys has a handy dandy tutorial on how to do so....

Create a clock...

Create and customize your own clock, a simple activity using paper plates.

Mrs. Nielson's Paper Plate Clock

Cookie

You'll find games, stories, crafts and more at Cookie.com.