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Glue & Salt Painted Pumpkins: A Fun NO PREP Fall Project!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Here is a fun art project for fall that takes (almost) no prep at all, is super fascinating for most children!  It's glue and salt painting with watercolor paints, and in this case, we painted a pumpkin to celebrate Halloween!  Another great thing about this project is that it incorporates a bit of science in it, since the children get to see how the salt absorbs the water, and then how the colors diffuse and travel up the salt cove...
   

Word Building with Sticky Notes!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I am excited to tell you about a new idea I have been trying recently:  word building with sticky notes!  Did you know that you can print right on sticky notes with most printers?  I was able to print the entire alphabet and all of the Sounds Fun digraphs and vowel pairs on the tiny sticky notes fairly easily.  Sticky notes are much cheaper than purchasing magnetic letters and trays, too, which would be the l...
   

More Projects for the Beginning of the School Year, and Declaring War on Glue Bottles!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ It has been an eventful week!  Here are some more beginning of the year projects that I have been prepping.  They are very simple and easy to make.  But I am going to start with some tips on getting your glue bottles ready to go! 1.  Declaring WAR on Glue! Few things are more frustrating than having a great project ready to go, and then having it derailed by a bunch continuously clogged glue bottles.  One of ...