Pumpkin directed drawing preschool

I have become a little obsessed with directed drawings lately. It all started last year with Proud to be Primary and her Franken-Buddies. I made them with my kids and they were adorable–but I also saw something amazing happen with my students. They were drawing Franken-buddies on their own–all the time–and they were so proud of themselves. I saw the same thing the next month when we made her Turkeys. This year, I knew I wanted to make directed drawings a regular practice. I started out with…

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Big funny pumpkin drawing for October.

Looking for a fabulous October art project to hang in your classroom? These are seriously SO beautiful! My entire team of six kindergart...

Pumpkin Directed Drawing

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In this blog post: Download a set of decodable readers based on your favorite fairytales and folktales including The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. If you’ve been around for a while, you know that one of my favorite […]

If you're interested in my full Fall Art Lesson Pack, you can find it in my TpT HERE! An art teacher friend of mine asked me about a couple of lessons I did last year, so I decided to blog a little bit about them. First of all, the book "The Runaway Pumpkin" is SO cute. I think any pumpkin book would be great to go along with a pumpkin lesson, but this one is rhythmic, rhyming, and funny. I only read this with kindergarten, but it's pretty funny for k-3. I did the simple pumpkin lesson with…