Cracker Christmas Bundle

Save time, save money, enjoy and extra Christmas coffee catch-up with friends. You know you deserve it!

Enjoy a creative Christmas in your classroom, with this comprehensive collection of Advent and Christmas resources. These resources are for real learning in Visual Arts, Literacy and RE as you countdown to Christmas. Adaptable for a range of ages and grades and anchored to the elements of art, imaginative and persuasive texts and religious traditions and themes, these resources include many suggestions for adaptation and extension. Time-saving for class and subject teachers. Excellent resources for casual relief (substitute) teachers, and student teachers to have in their "bag of tricks" as the festive season approaches. Also suitable for out-of-school groups and programs. 

Bundle purchase saves 80% Why wait? 

Merry Creative Christmas!

(Coffee photo from pixabay.com)

"When the bloom on the jacaranda tree is here..."

Altogether now, Australian primary teachers, sing up: "When the bloom on the jacaranda tree is here, Chris Mouse time is near" What, you haven't heard of Chris Mouse? He must be related to Stuart Little. It's one of my favourite five-year old mondegreens (misheard lyrics).  I can't sing that song any other way. (That five year old is a high school teacher now; not sure if entertains his students at this time with songs about Chris Mouse.) 

Actually, when the bloom on the jacaranda tree his here (in Australia) Advent is near - and the colour is perfect, how cool is that?  The first Sunday of Advent this year is December 3, time to break out the purple media and get the art activities ready. For something new this year, try my Advent Stained Glass Window Activity, exploring the artistic elements of Colour and Shape, and the concept of symbol, as well as Hope, Love, Joy and Peace, the themes of the Four Sundays of Advent.

Advent Stained Glass Windows: Exploring Colour and Shape is a versatile and engaging Visual Arts resource for a range of grades and ages, which works both as a collaborative or individual task and lends itself to differentiation for a range of abilities. Students can work with a variety of media from markers, oil pastels or paint to collage or cellophane construction. With a focus on each Sunday's theme, the activities can be developed from a single lesson into an ongoing project linked to your Advent RE unit.

Advent Stained Glass Windows is available as a single resource or as part of a bargain Advent Arts bundle designed to engage your students in a creative countdown and a meaningful preparation Christmas this year through learning in Visual Arts, Religious Education and Literacy.

Friday Fireworks!

20% off all my TES resources.

Comprehensive, flexible and adaptable lesson packs for Picasso and Christmas. More Christmas lessons coming soon! Can be used as stand-alone lessons or bundled for units of work. Games and activities for the Elements of Art. All your assessment requirements in lesson packs as well as assessment planning resources, incorporating self and peer assessment.

All the hard work is done so you can relax and enjoy some art with your students.

Click on the pic! Happy Friday! (New TES purchasers, also look for the NOVEMBERNEWBIE code)

Jump on the Picasso Express

Need an art lesson in a hurry? Addled by assessment requirements? Perplexed by Picasso?

Problems solved!

This Picasso Artist Study for Primary (Elementary) / Middle School years has everything a time-poor teacher needs to introduce the great artistic innovator, inspiring creativity and confidence in students, while ticking all the planning and assessment boxes, and maintaining and demonstrating curriculum and syllabus alignment.

Each comprehensive, flexible and adaptable lesson can stand alone, but for great value, pick up the bundled Picasso Artist Study Unit.

Each lesson pack includes resources for the lesson, a detailed and fully editable lesson plan, including a Learning Intention and Success Criteria, as well as an editable rubric and assessment recording sheet for implementing and recording the formative and/or summative assessment of your choice.  All the hard work is done so you can relax and enjoy some art with your students.

Follow the text link above or click on the picture. Have fun with it!

Get Moving in Art!

With terrific timing, the good people at tes.com have scheduled a Bundle Bonanza with 20% off all resource bundles this weekend, October 28-31. Good of them to coordinate their sale with the kick-off of the Tick the Art Box Shop!

Get your art students moving (and talking and writing) with the  Use Your Art Words bundle. Games, activities and challenges for teaching about Line, Shape and Form as Elements of Art include engaging physical movement games, as well as Quick Draw and Quick Sculpt challenges and activities integrating technology. So with links to PE, Maths and ICT these games work across the curriculum while reinforcing Visual Art and Literacy concepts. Each set of challenges include suggestions for variation and differentiation, and can be implemented as individual, small group or whole class activities. They can be used as "station" activities, warm-ups, brain breaks or form the basis for entire lessons. Use them to spark your students' creativity or your own. Make some art, or make some more games!

An extensive set of Vocabulary Cards for all Seven Elements of Art is included, as well as an editable template for creating more. 

Selections from the Line Games and Activities pack (included in the Use Your Art Words bundle) can work as warm-ups for the Get in Line with Picasso lesson, looking at Picasso's animal line drawings.

Get in Line with Picasso can be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as part of the  comprehensive Picasso Artist Study  (Bundle also on sale this weekend). 

Slip over to Tick the Art Box to save yourself some planning time this weekend.