Instead of doing all of the work I needed to do before returning to school tomorrow, following the Thanksgiving Break, I made this guy!
- Get some green poster board and use a pencil to free-hand the Grinch. Outline everything with a Chisel Tip Sharpie marker. I love Sharpies!! Also, the best eraser of all time is the Staedtler Mars Plastic eraser. I am NOT an artist and I do a lot of erasing. This eraser erases like magic!!! See the links below for these products on Amazon.com.
- Use fade-less construction paper to make his hat and crazy eyeballs!
- In Target's dollar section, I purchased these place-mats sometime ago. They had green polka-dots and blue/white snowflake patterns as well. At the time, I had it in my mind that I would eventually use them for some sort of signage at school.
- This is what I made using this place-mat!
- Create the Title using your word-processing program. Print on patterned cardstock and tape on the place-mat.
- Using your word-processing program, make a heart shape and add text. Print on white cardstock and tape on place-mat.
- Using your word-processing program, make directions for the kids to follow in order to take part in the "Spread Some Kindness and Grow A Heart" campaign!
- Using your word-processing program, make a sheet of hearts. Print out a bunch and cut out.
- Take to school and laminate the Grinch and the place-mat sign. Hang in the hallway. Put the paper hearts in an envelope and and hang near the Grinch.
- As the hearts start to come in, hang them up near the Grinch. Enjoy reading all the kind words!
Now go - Spread Kindness and Grow a Heart!!
Love the idea! I'm so unsure about the drawing of the Grinch though!!!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea and I'm doing it with 2nd grade! I am also hesitant about drawing/tracing the grinch. Do you have a picture of what your final bulletin board looks like?
ReplyDeleteLove this!!! I did with a first grade class as a lesson on Caring and read with the story "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" it was great!
ReplyDeleteThis is AWESOME!! I just completed a school wide project for World Kindness Week and this makes a great transition through the holidays. There has been a tremendous amount of negative energy in my school (kids and staff) since Thanksgiving. This would be a great school wide thing to do to change the mood... Thank you for sharing!!
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