Need ideas for 1st grade class

[crazy2kids]

Hi, everybody,
I volunteer monthly in my son's 1st grade class for art docent. For next month I was considering doing something "different" like stamping. Can anybody give me any ideas or projects I can do for 1st graders? I have about an hour or so do finish a project. Would be nice if I can get ideas for X-mas. Thanks.

[akmas]

I would suggest doing something either in stations or assembly line letting them stamp on white cs a santa and a tree (or whatever set you use) and then letting them take it back to their seat and using thier colors and markers or map pencils and making a card for thier parents. Good Luck it sounds fun!
HTH
Kim SLoan

[chickers089]

watch what themes you use. Some kids don't celebrate Christmas. I would do a "Holiday" card in the manner mentioned above.

[inkyimages]

Why not use a snowman stamp and make it a winter card, rather than a Christmas card? Also, have the students make their own bookmark (it promotes reading). If it's close to the day of their "winter" (Christmas) party, you might have them stamp white craft bags. My daughter is a 1st grade teacher and on any party day the kids seem to bring in lots of candy to pass out so she uses bags that the children decorate to take their goodies home in.

Have fun!
Karen

[GarnetJ]

Remember to use ink that will wash off their hands and out of their clothes.

[crazy2kids]

Thanks everybody. I just talked to my son's 1st grade teacher and she did mention about some kids may not celebrate christmas. I may consider assembly line card or decorating a bag.

[parsnip]

If you're doing it in the classroom, either bring in a couple of sizzix machines or see if you can bring in the school's ellison machine and use sizzix dies on it. My Brownies have been big fans of diecutting since K!

They also like to use punches and decorative scissors.

If you do stations, only one ink pad color per station--it's not hard to get cross contamination (rueful head shake)

[row4d]

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Originally Posted by crazy2kids

Thanks everybody. I just talked to my son's 1st grade teacher and she did mention about some kids may not celebrate christmas. I may consider assembly line card or decorating a bag.

I was just thinking you should try a genie bag when I saw this thread! If you don't know what that is, it's a type of decorated lunch bag where you glue a piece of stamped cardstock to each flat side of the bag. I think it's named for whoever uploaded one first. There are several in the gallery!

[Laurie FW]

I really like to use white or tan paper bags and the wheels with smaller children. I like to use ballet blue and the snowflake wheel, real red and the retired candy wheel, and one of the greens and either the tree or pine bough wheel. These are quick and easy for kids to do. You can also stamp some images (like the snow angels or snowmen in waterproof black ink) ahead of time and cut them to card front size and let them take them to their seats to use their own colors to color them in. Then have them bring them back and adhere them to a coordinating cardstock for them. You can bring a few sentiments to stamp inside, if you don't mind! Kids don't mind using other colors besides black, so I almost never use the basic black SU pad (waterproof!) with small kids. I bought an enexpensive washable black ink pad to use with them, or use other colors instead. My kids really like using pastels with stamps, too. That way you could just bring the watermark ink pad (why can I not think of the name of it?) and some inexpensive craft store pastels and q-tips and let them go! Snowman soup is always a good idea, too. Good luck! They will love it!

[Amy05]

Have them stamp a bagalope and then fill it with candy or potpourri for a gift. That's what my third graders make for their mothers.

[PattiLynn]

How about making a topper for a small cello bag. Fill the cello bag with mini-marshmallows. The topper would look great in ballet blue or brocade blue with snowflakes or a snowman.

[shecooks]

Iwent into my son's 1st Grade class last year. They were studying amphibians, so, we used the retired Leap Frog stamp to stamp on puzzles. They thought that it was a really cool project.

[friendly63]

Hi
I teach 6th graders and we are doing the bookmarks and then a white gift bag to take home their goodies in to use as a gift. The third center will be to make a card. We have an ellison press so I like that idea of using diecuts for their cards.
Dawn