Holiday Art Lesson Planning and Gift Giving Ideas
Amontessoric
Discover traditional recipes and crafts celebrated by many around the world.
You will find the free lesson planning located in the middle to last half of
<A HREF="http://www.amonco.org/1fall_winter2001.html">Part I</A> and <A
HREF="http://www.amonco.org/2fall_winter2001.html">Part II</A> of the
Fall/Winter 2001 online newsletter. You’ll find the free lesson planning in
the middle to latter portion of Part I and Part II. You’ll want to visit
http://www.amonco.org for additional holiday lesson planning ideas. Click on
the green holiday lesson planning icon.
Ruth Dilts Design ~ Quilting and More...
Does your older teen show an interest in needlepoint, embroidery or quilting?
Are you
looking for an activity that the two of you can do together? What better way
to show that special teacher, relative or friend just how much you care by
creating a treasure that will be used during the holidays for years to come.
Designer Ruth Dilts' Christmas ornaments have adorned many Christmas trees
including the ones at the White House and Buckingham Palace. Visit <a
href="http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthdiltsdesign/index.html">Ruth Dilts
Design</A> today to see the beautiful projects you can make. Ruth
is also available for workshops!
Art Supplies Wholesale
Stop by <a href="http://www.allartsupplies.com/">Art Supplies Wholesale</A>.
You'll find the paintbrushes, clay, crayons, charcoals, pastels, acrylic
paints, easels, and the other items you need for your home and school
classroom art presentations. Your students will soon be busy creating
holiday pictures, clay ornaments and other goodies. Let the Art Supplies
Wholesale online store be your stop for the supplies you need.
The following is from Art Supplies Warehouse: "Art Supplies Warehouse has
been a catalog and warehouse facility supplying daycare centers, summer
camps, public schools, private schools and art teachers for over 60 years.
The buying power fueled by competitive municipal bidding, a national catalog
and an 8000 foot self-picking warehouse open to the public permits us to
offer a wide range of fine art supplies to support art education at all
levels." Visit <a
href="http://www.allartsupplies.com/">http://www.allartsupplies.com/</A> today!
The Crafty PC
The upcoming holiday season is a perfect time for children and teens to
start designing their holiday gifts. Several holiday projects on The Crafty
PC's website offer children and teens the enjoyable experience of creating
the Dreidel Favor Box, photo Christmas candles, or personalized Christmas
tree ornaments. Why not involve the children in your school and home
classrooms with making a clock face with a holiday motif, or even a winter
village made entirely from paper? Visit <a
href="http://www.thecraftypc.com/">http://www.thecraftypc.com/</A>
and be sure to click on the http://www.thecraftypc.com/projects.html
Projects Page!
Harrisville Designs
Julie from Harrisville Designs has the following news to report:
"Harrisville Designs is pleased to update the Montessori community about the
success of our two most recent products.
Our Quick to Knit Scarf Kit ( for ages 7 and older) is a beginner's project
that results in a beautiful long and skinny mohair and wool scarf. The
knitter gets to choose from blue, purple or red- each color features
colorful nubs and fuzzy mohair. The kit comes with a pair of short and
thick wood needles with adorable red wooden balls on the ends, and an
instruction booklet. Children love to knit and this is a great way to
introduce them to it! Tell them that all the wool is spun right here in our
mill in New Hampshire - from a friendly merino sheep to you!
Also right out of our spinning mill is the colorful wool fleece that is a
part of our Felted Snake and Egg Kit for ages 7 and older). This kit is for
beginners and it comes with four beautiful colors of fleece, wire to make
bendable felted snakes, egg shaped forms to make egg shaped felt containers,
nubs and wiggly eyes to decorate your creations, and complete illustrated
instructions. Felting is hot right now with a number of books and project
ideas just becoming available. Once your child starts felting, he or she
won't stop. You can make felt around a beach rock, a wood block, a
bowl,etc... Once you become comfortable with felting, Harrisville Designs
has a great Felted Hat kit (for ages 12 and over) with refill kits
available. For those who wish to do murals and other larger projects, we
have over 50 colors of fleece in 1/2 pound bags for you to play with. Get
started with the Felted Snake and Egg kit - it's unique, easy to do, and
fun!
If you are interested in any of these products, or any of our other weaving
or fiber products for children, please visit <A
HREF="http://www.harrisville.com/">Harrisville Designs</A> " These kits
would make marvelous gifts as well.
Kids Kits - Creative Craft and Sewing projects in Kit Form
Helga and Gerry from Kids Kits remind all of us that the holidays are indeed
upon us.
“Christmas is coming! We have a super range of Christmas kits to make and
to give as presents.
We at Kids Kits provide a variety of creative handcrafted kits. They are
reasonably priced with easy-to-follow instructions. Each kit comes complete
as a unit, with all the necessary components to design, create and complete
a project.
The kits are geared educationally for the right age at the right stage.
We start at a very elementary level. Kits for the 5-6 year olds include
basic skills like counting, cutting, glue-ing and straight stitch. Clear
instructions are included so that the child and mother/teacher can enjoy and
finish the projects together. Kits in this field include our activity
packs, puppets, snugbugs and our Zulu dollies where the children also learn
to plait and thread beads.
As the children advance in abilities and skills we offer a wider variety of
kits which incorporate different techniques. These increase their dexterity
and fine motor coordination and give each child a broad range of skills from
which they can draw. Kits included are tapestries, candle wicking,
embroidery, quilling, mobiles, basket weaving and applique.
For the older child, we have kits that further enhance design and
creativity. These include our Samplers and Weaving kits.
To view any of our kits, please come and visit us on or web page: <A
HREF="http://www.kidskitscrafts.com">Kids Kits</A> We
send airmail all over the world, and this is included in the prices that you
see.”
Visual Manna
Sharon Jeffers recently authored Geography through Art an innovate guide for
parents and teachers planning lessons in geography. Even the most reluctant
art student will want to participate in these meaningful activities, many of
which are keyed to an interdisciplinary study of Asia. This delightful book
would make an excellent holiday gift as well. You’ll want to visit the
website <A HREF="http://www.rollanet.org/~arthis"> Visual Manna</A>/ to see
the complete line of products and services available. Be sure to check out
the <a href="http://www.rollanet.org/~arthis/">Visual Manna</A> Christmas
specials and the free lessons http://www.rollanet.org/~arthis/lessons4.htm
as well.
Do you have a an addiction to create?
The owner of Creative Addiction comments:
"We all know that creativity is an important key to learning. We, at
Creative Addiction, provide a different sort of canvas to create on. We
supply textiles, on which you can paint, stencil, rubber stamp, embroider or
use any other medium which strikes your fancy. Imagine the little ones using
their hands as a rubber stamp and printing their hands on a non-terry dish
towel, or painting a rainbow on an apron. How about sewing their first
embroidery work design on a linen handkerchief. There are many items to
choose from and only your or their imagination sets the limits. Please come
to see what we offer at <A HREF="http://www.CreativeAddiction.com ">Creative
Addiction</A>
Fun Felt
Children love to work with felt. Karen of Fun Felt recently shared the
following with us:
We offer a wonderful variety of storytelling aides, including a
multi-cultural selection of dolls and story characters, science and math
felt boards, and other educational items for preschoolers through upper
elementary grades. All items are made of durable, washable felt. Free felt
figure sample and catalog on request.”
Visit http://www.funfelt.com/multicultural.html to see some of the new
multicultural and other marvelous items. Here is just a sampling of what
you will find - Create a Face, King and His Court Puppet Set, Where is
Thumbkin?, Funny Fingers Finger Plays, Felt Paper Dolls, International
Costumes, International Heritage Collection, and Rainforest offerings.
You’ll find online, mail, fax or phone ordering available. Be sure to
subscribe to the Fun Felt monthly teaching ideas newsletter when you visit
the <A HREF="http://www.funfelt.com/">Fun Felt</A> website!. Read the
http://www.funfelt.com/fwfholiday.html November issue for some excellent
holiday lesson planning suggestions. Each newsletter issue is filled with
many creative ideas that can be adapted for both school and home classroom
use.
Creative Care
Daycare providers have shared their desire with Jaye Leazer to have kits
designed that could be used in daycare and family day care centers. Jaye
has been busy fulfilling the needs of these busy professionals. She wants
to assist you as well!
Updated News About Creative Care Products
Jaye from Creative Care wants our readers to know that a new website will be
built soon. Visit the company’s former site at <A
HREF="http://www.craftedgifts.com/jleazer/">Creative Care</A> to see some of
the products available. Many daycare educators find the Creative Care
product line to be a lifesaver. With the holidays now here, the Creative
Care packs can make this season both fun for you and your students.
The craft packs teach simple concepts to the children while they are having
fun as well as building self-esteem and pride in their accomplishments.
Twelve new ideas are offered each month and they revolve around the
holidays, seasons, and preschool learning activities. There is a color,
letter and number introduced monthly. The crafts are a business booster for
the day care home showing concrete evidence of the quality care provided.
Contact Jaye at her new e-mail address jnjl...@home.com for current
pricing information and additional information about the complete product
line.
BIGGWOOD - The Community Puzzles
The Community Puzzles continue to be applauded by teachers, homeschoolers,
community groups and other parents. Just think of a holiday theme and
invite members of your class or community group to create a special
masterpiece!
Biggwood has added another product to its line of Community Puzzles. Based
on the same concepts as The Community Puzzle of decorating blank puzzle
pieces and creating a collage, The Community Puzzle "Junior" is now
available for individuals and smaller groups. It's great fun for birthdays,
holidays, rainy days, travel, sleepovers, class projects, etc. "Junior"
puzzles can be linked together to form a larger puzzle or added to a
standard Community Puzzle. The "Junior" consists of 16 pieces and its
finished size is 12" x 12". See <A HREF="http://www.communitypuzzle.com">The
Community Puzzle</A> for more information.
Be sure to visit the AMC Bookstore. You'll find some wonderful new additions
to our science section. Find the astronomy, gardening, biology,
nutrition and physical science books you need at deeply discounted prices by
visiting <a href="http://members.aol.com/AMCNEWS2/science.html">AMC
Bookstore</A>
Frances Henderson, Manager
American Montessori Consulting
Serving School and Home Educators Since 1988
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