Showing posts with label Spring Kit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Kit. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2008

Spring Kit For Sale Now!

I am now SOLD OUT of spring kits.
Be sure to check my sidebar for items I am currently selling!!!
The Hearts and Trees
Spring Themed
Art, Nature Study and Handicraft Kit

Each kit includes the instructions and materials to complete easy and fun handicraft, art and nature study projects with a minimum of effort. (Please note that you will need to provide common art supplies such as paper, markers, colored pencils, crayons, etc.)
I am so excited to introduce my newest kit. We have a number of new types of projects in this spring themed kit. For the first time, we have included a woodworking project! We were inspired by these handmade wooden animals. The kit comes with a wooden bird pre-cut and ready for you to sand and finish. The instructions page for this project also includes information about the different types of sandpaper.This kit also includes the materials and instructions to sew a plastic canvas bookmark--a favorite project of the kids at the school where I used to work. Another project in this kit is an origami jumping frog, which is sure to be a favorite. Our 4"x6" art print for this kit is Henri Rousseau's Exotic Landscape. We have again included a notebooking page for our featured artist. There are also the instructions for a Rousseau inspired art project. There is an art element notebooking page discussing the line family.

I had some help from my mom designing the nature study part of this kit. We decided to focus on birds as our nature study project. There are two pages of instructions, helping you to identify parts of a bird, bird sizes, and helping you to know what to look for so you can identify a bird later. Then we put together a bird observation page ready for you to use when you go out to observe birds- a place to record your observations so that you can identify the birds later. We also have included a laminated 3"x5" bird nature study card designed to be used for beginning bird watchers or younger students.

Complete Contents List:
1. Art Print: Rousseau’s Exotic Landscape
2. Henri Rousseau notebooking page
3. Art Element Worksheet: A Family of Lines
4. Materials for a woodworking bird project (poplar wooden bird and 2 pieces of sandpaper)
5. Materials for a plastic canvas bookmark (plastic canvas, variegated yarn and tapestry needle)
6. Paper to make an origami jumping frog (1 5½” square of green paper)
7. 2 Bird Nature Study Observations pages (½ sheets of paper)
8. Laminated 3”x5” bird observation card to be used for bird nature study
9. Instructions for plastic canvas bookmark/origami jumping frog (not included in additional materials kit)
10. Instructions for woodworking bird/Rousseau jungle landscape (not included in additional materials kit)
11. Instructions for bird nature study (2 pages- not included in additional materials kit)
12. Cardboard to be used as clipboard for nature study observations
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These kits were gathered with children ages 6-12 in mind. Parents may need to help their students, especially younger children, with some aspects of this kit.


SOLD OUT!!

THANK YOU!!!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Free Bird Nature Study Notebooking Pages

My mom just told me about a free download at CurrClick.com:


For all of you who are going to be focusing on birds with my spring kit, you might want to head over and check them out.

You will need to register your email address with CurrClick in order to download the notebooking pages. Enjoy!

Monday, March 31, 2008

Bird Book Suggestions- Spring Kit Links

Here are links to Amazon.com to the bird books suggested on page 2 of the Bird Nature Study instructions in my Spring Kit.






If you cannot see the covers of the books for some reason (we think it might be an issue with Firefox) you can click through to Amazon to see the book covers. We're not sure what is up.

Friday, March 21, 2008

One More Week of Pre-Ordering

So there is one more week of pre-ordering for the Hearts and Trees Spring Themed Art, Handicraft and Nature Study Kit. Be sure to check it out if you haven't already. I am really excited about this kit.

I have been really busy cutting and printing and laminating and doing all sorts of other things to get the kits ready to ship on the 28th. I have had some help from my mom, dad and brothers. They all pitch in when things get crazy.

I had to learn to use the scroll saw to cut out the birds.

Stacks and stacks of cut poplar birds for the woodworking project.

I am also putting together another Art Show like the ones on my sidebar. So, be sure to check back in Monday for that.

Have a great weekend everyone. Hope it feels a little like spring wherever you are. Spring sure has arrived in my neighborhood! I love it.