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Create a Music Maker | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Discover the benefits of designing for function by creating musical instruments!

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-great way to wrap up skip counting, different ways to group, different ways to track and graph data
-spend a week around Halloween doing groupings and skip counting
-model gathering data, making tallies, and graphing data
-some ideas are above

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Halloween Math Game: Roll a Jack-O'-Lantern | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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The holidays are the perfect opportunity to spice up learning activities! This roll a jack-o'-lantern game helps kids practice recognizing numbers, place values and patterns. It's flexible across ages and only takes a few minutes to put together.

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-every student gets budget of 100 pennies ($1.00) and then they can shop in a class store
-have to make change
-trade in pennies for nickels or dimes or quarters (that is a push)
-lead into 100th day mini unit this way

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Culminating Project: 1st Grade Olympics!

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Culminating Project: 1st Grade Olympics!

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-combine measurement (of distance and time), tallying, graphing, comparing values and working with larger numbers
-could loop in with Humanities and PE

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February: 3 Week PBL Unit on 100th Day of School

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February: 3 Week PBL Unit on 100th Day of School

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Tools: hundreds chart!
Content focus: Why is the number 100 to special and important?
-so many ways to make equal groups within 100
-chalk party out on the 100s chart and with skip counting caterpillars outdoors
-gather 100s collections and share them out in different ways (a couple per day); write about the collections in collab with Humanities
-collab with science for seashells; seeds
-line up with geology museum and suzanne
-use your 5 senses to explore the number 100: build with 100 things (build with 100 cups/straws, with 100 cubes, with 100 legos); taste 100 things (make 100th day trail mix); feel 100 things (make stamp books with 100 stamps in different groupings)

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-DIY fossils from PBS
-make visors
-leaf tree rubbings
-different footprints of different animals

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Homemade Fossils | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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With some basic kitchen ingredients, your child can have fun learning about fossils in this hands-on educational activity.

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-create a hanging banner
-making a pennant
-introduce your self and family

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Scratch off shapes and add to home office decorations

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Scratch off shapes and add to home office decorations

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-use magnets and create little mascots and toys

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-fine motor skills

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-draw on quilt square and have people mail it in
-tie the squares together

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-use wooden ones for 2nd grade
-have 1st grade make their own; or vice versa

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Fruit and Veggie Caterpillars | Recipes for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Does your child love all things nature? Add some friendly insects to your backyard party invite list by assembling these tasty fruit and vegetable snacks that look like caterpillars.

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READ ALONG with DWYANE WADE! | Welcome to the Party | PBS KIDS

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You Matter | Read Along with Christian Robinson! | PBS KIDS

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Rainbow Celery Experiment | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Learn about capillary action with this simple and colorful rainbow celery experiment. This experiment allows you and your child to talk about the circulatory system and "capillary" action. The small "vessels" in the celery stalks carry the water and color to the leaves, like the way blood travels through your body.

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Cereal Box Cityscape | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Make days of fun out of a few old cereal boxes with this easy cityscape craft.

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Make Edible Dirt Cups | Recipes for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Our world is filled with plants and animals that live and burrow in dirt and soil. Get your hands dirty as you learn about the different types of soil and make an edible "dirt" cup.

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Create Clay Animal Tracks | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Has your child ever discovered an animal track? Was it in snow or mud? In this activity, kids can turn their favorite animal tracks into art by imprinting on clay. When they're done, hang the finished pieces on the wall or gift them to someone special!

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Make Art With Nature | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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This art activity is all about exploration and expression. Your child will explore the world around them and express creatively using materials they find in it.

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-talk about pattern and shapes

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Make a Book of Trees | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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This hands-on activity will connect your child with the trees in her backyard and neighborhood.

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Culminating Project: Class "Pizza" Party

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Culminating Project: Class "Pizza" Party

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-order pizzas in real life
-model many ways to split a paper plate pizza into halves, quarters
-try to split other shapes and see if it's possible to split them into equal shapes
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-shape scavenger hunt
-patterns with shapes
-pasta necklaces and patterns

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create a constellation with alphabet stars

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create a constellation with alphabet stars

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Twinkle Twinkle Letter Stars | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Astronomers, the scientists who study stars, have divided the night sky into 88 official constellations. A "constellation" is a group of stars that form a recognizable pattern when viewed from Earth. Now you can create constellations in your home - while also teaching alphabet skills!

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Culminating Project: DIY Geoboard Town Map

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Culminating Project: DIY Geoboard Town Map

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-must use certain number of smaller shapes inside your map to make it
-inspired by tangrams!

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Make a Neighborhood Geoboard | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Explore geometric shapes, scaling, perimeters, and polygons with this homemade geoboard.

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class zine project - bring the life you created with corkboards to life! 

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class zine project - bring the life you created with corkboards to life! 

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Recommended for ages 5+¹
Estimated time: 30 minutes

Create your own zine about your community.

Think about...

Who is in your neighborhood?

What are important things in your community? Stores? Gardens? Parks? Family? Neighbors?

What would you like everyone to know about your neighborhood community?

A zine (pronounced zeen), short for "magazine" or "fanzine", is a homemade mini-magazine.

A zine can be about anything you're interested in! What it's about and what it looks like is completely up to you. Zines often include writing, drawing, and collaging but the sky's the limit! It can be as simple or as complicated as you want. What all zines have in common is that their creators feel like they have something important to say that they would like to share with others.

Today, we challenge you to create a zine about your neighborhood. What are your favorite things about your community? What makes your neighborhood special? What would you like everyone to know about your community? Share your ideas in your zine!

¹Got kids under five? Fold two pieces of 8.5"x11" paper in half and staple the edge. Even for very young children mark-making in their own book offers great writing practice!

Materials

Paper - blank or printed zine template

Things to draw with - markers, pencils, crayons

Scissors

Any other art supplies you have at home (stickers and stamps are fun)

Steps

Take a photo of your zine!

Share it with us, and see what others have created.
#OMCA " make your own zine

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Recommended for ages 5+¹Estimated time: 30 minutes Create your own zine about your community. Who is in your neighborhood? What are important things in your community? Stores? Gardens? Parks? Family? Neighbors? What would you like everyone to know about your neighborhood community? A zine (pronounced zeen), short for "magazine" or "fanzine", is a homemade mini-magazine.

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Create a Cardboard Guitar | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Making music is even more fun with a homemade instrument.

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read-alouds about harlem musicians and others

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read-alouds about harlem musicians and others

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Recommended for ages 5+ (with adult help)
Estimated time: 30 minutes

Share your story by creating a woven masterpiece inspired by California-based textile artist, Diedrick Brackens!

Diedrick Brackens, Untitled, 2014. Hand woven and sewn fabric, nylon, cotton dyed with tea and commercial dyes, 84 x 81 in. Gift of Oakland Museum Women's Board. © Diedrick Brackens

One of the vibrant textiles in OMCA's Gallery of California Art is a weaving by Diedrick Brackens. Brackens is a Black, queer, Texas-born, and California-based artist who weaves together his identity in his artwork by combining different textile traditions such as European tapestry, strip-woven kente cloth of Ghana, and the quilts of the American South. His weavings show us how textiles can tell stories about ourselves and our histories, and start important conversations around identity and political issues in our community. Hear more from the artist about his work and inspiration in this video and this video. In this activity, you will be inspired by Diedrick Brackens and share your story in your own unique weaving.

This activity challenges you to share who you are through the colors, patterns, and materials you choose for your weaving. Think about what these different things might represent. Yellow yarn might represent happiness or how much you love sunny days. Star-patterned fabric from an old t-shirt might represent your love of space or the stars in the American flag.

Think about...

What is your heritage? How do you share your heritage with others?

What colors, patterns, or materials would you like to use to represent yourself? How about your family, community or culture?

What yarn, fabric, or other textiles could you use at home? These could be items like clothing, flags or banners, carpets, or even sports jerseys. What colors, textures, and patterns do you notice?

Once you have done some thinking, it's time to start weaving. While Diedrick Brackens uses a large wooden loom to create his weavings, you can create your own using simple materials like cardboard, scissors, fabric strips, and yarn!

Materials

Cardboard

Yarn in different colors

Pieces of fabric that help tell your story

Scissors

Ruler

Tape

Markers

Steps

Make the Loom:

1. Cut out a piece of cardboard. We used a 6 inch x 6 inch square. This is your loom.

2. Cut small notches on the top and bottom sides of your loom. We made our notches 3/4 inches apart using a ruler.

3. Use a long piece of yarn to thread each notch from top to bottom, making sure to keep the thread tight and leave the tails on the back of the cardboard. Tape these ends to the back side of the cardboard. This is your warp!

Front:

Back:

Weave

1. Cut several pieces of yarn and fabric scraps about 2 inches longer than the width of your loom.

2. Move the yarn pieces and fabric scraps over and under the warp one at a time. This part of your weaving is called the weft.

3. Make sure to push up your yarn and fabric pieces as you go. Keep going until you get to the bottom. Once you're done, tape the edges of the yarn and fabric pieces to the back of your loom.

4. If you'd like, color in the cardboard on the top and bottom of your loom.

5. Create a hanger by tying or taping a piece of yarn to the back.

Want to make a weaving that comes off the loom?

Rather than taping your fabric and yarn strands to the back of your loom, knot the ends on either side.

Once you've finished weaving, carefully cut the warp threads from the back of the loom.

Tie the loose top threads to each other, or to a dowel or twig.

Knot the loose bottom threads together two at a time.

Add your hanger thread

Lastly, cut off or tuck in any access thread and put your weaving on display!

Take a photo of your weaving!
Share it with us, and see what others have created
#OMCA

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Recommended for ages 5+ (with adult help)Estimated time: 30 minutes Share your story by creating a woven masterpiece inspired by California-based textile artist, Diedrick Brackens! Diedrick Brackens, Untitled, 2014. Hand woven and sewn fabric, nylon, cotton dyed with tea and commercial dyes, 84 x 81 in. Gift of Oakland Museum Women's Board.

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Make Leaf-Imprinted Ornaments | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Beautiful nature is all around us - even in cooler weather when many plants and trees lose their leaves. These hand-pressed pieces of art are sure to "leaf" an impression on kids and inspire an appreciation of nature all year long.