WELCOME December: Crafts & Creativity

DECEMBER! It's already DECEMBER!!!

It seems like we've just barely pushed our chairs back from the Thanksgiving table of gratitude and now the calendar announces December. How is that even possible? Are you scratching your head? Or is it spinning? Let the official countdown begin. 

I'm headed to the airport to zip up to Atlanta momentarily. I get to give the opening keynote for the SDE conference for PreK & Kindergarten teachers. So today's sharing will be a visual buffet of ideas, with links to their sources. Now that our blog is our third December -- we have oodles of ideas already catalogued here. 

Let's get started with a couple of classic Santas. STARS!

Gather up your cotton batting, cotton balls and all things COTTON! 

Here's a winter-alternative possibility. 
Open-ended. 
Process art. 
Marble running paint, creates the snow globe appearance.

Got paper plates? 
Here's another classic! 
Easy-peasy. 
No matter what the age of your peeps. 

I have a RoundUP of over 20+ Christmas and December themed Bulletin Boards 
over on my own "Rainbows Within Reach" blog. 

There are quite a few ideas that will serve as inspiration for these few short weeks ahead. 



Now let me go back through some of our incredible, earlier December articles around here. 
This one is just as classic today as it was when it first appeared. 

{Click the pictures below to go to the earlier articles} 

Dr. Danny Brassell offered ways to keep reading through the holidays. 

Need all the info to build your own Lego-table? 
Here's the link to everything you need to know! 
{click the pic} 

I tell you my head has been spinning. 
Last month was the ultimate month for me professionally. 

I had a school visit in Virginia...... 
where EVERY student in attendance received a copy of my picture book, "Tall Giraffe." 

If you're looking for an entree for your Non-Fiction studies, 
or if you need a gazillion giraffe arts ideas, 
you'll want to click the pic to go over to my blog. 

NAEYC was incredible. 
So incredible, I forgot to take very many pictures. 
Here's a couple as they relate to our authors here at the collaborative! 

Moi, Mimi Chenfeld, Deborah and Lisa Ooey-Gooey Murphy

Moi, Jenny Spencer (newest contributor here) and Miss Carole -- from the 16th of every month

Have you been to the Frog Street Press' summer EVENT? SPLASH!!!

Would you be a dear and help spread the cheer? 

Every pin from this article will help circulate it to a broader audience 

and we are so grateful!

THANK YOU. 

Have an amazing December!