Creative Corners For Winter Holidays

Create bright and engaging learning environments right in your classroom with these easy-to-use ideas for winter holidays. Even small spaces come alive with a few simple decorations such as bulletin boards, mobiles, and signs. This packet includes three themes: Happy Holidays, Happy Valentine’s Day, and Presidents’ Day. Use these ideas to make the classroom ready for students or enlist students’ help for a fun class project!

Create bright and engaging learning environments right in your classroom with these easy-to-use ideas for winter. Even small spaces come alive with a few simple decorations such as bulletin boards, mobiles, and signs. This packet includes three themes: Snow Buddies, Time for History, and Birthday Celebrations. Use these ideas to make the classroom ready for students or enlist students’ help for a fun class project!

Create bright and engaging learning environments right in your classroom with these easy-to-use ideas. Even small spaces come alive with a few simple decorations such as mini-bulletin boards, mobiles, and signs. Enlist the help of your students for a fun class project! Organized by season, this book includes 24 themes, such as Nuts About Books, Snow Buddies, and Weather Watchers.

Starcat's Corner: Essays on Pagan Living is about walking a reverence-filled spiritual path in the midst of a hectic modern society. Rather than rehashing the basics of Paganism, Shields shares wisdom rooted in her own experience. She answers the often-overlooked question, "How do you live your earth-based spirituality, day in and day out, particularly in a culture that doesn't share your values?" Shields offers insights to those who wish to enhance their personal spirituality, foster loving relationships, and live in harmony with the natural world. ,

You're no idiot, of course. You're not afraid to express your ideas or to stray from the tired and true. And you are known among your friends and loved ones for your great personal style. But when it comes to veering from the traditional nuptial path, you are starting to feel like eloping is the only answer. Don't book Elvis's Chapel of Love just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Weddings is here to help you make your wedding day more than just a cookie-cutter celebration. In this book, you'll learn how to plan the perfect creative wedding by hatching your own new traditions that express your personal style. You'll blend in the family rituals that you treasure and still make it to the altar in one piece. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you'll get:

Coloring the pictures in this packet encourages creativity and artistic expression, and lays the groundwork for skills such as coordination, attention to detail, and self-esteem. The simple images represent a variety of winter holidays, including Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and more! Also provided are ideas for how to use the pictures. Children will have fun and feel good about their finished works.

Preserve the magic of the winter holidays Celebrate the season by capturing special moments on film?from cherishing the warmth of family traditions to ringing in the excitement of the New Year. Scrapbooking Christmas Memories features hundreds of scrapbook pages, organizational ideas and more. You'll love using fresh page accents ideas or photo tips for the perfect finishing touch on favorite layouts of your loved ones. Glean inspiration from its pages for scrapbooking those priceless photographs from Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, and the New Year and make the magic of the season last forever.

100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints, from the author of The Making of a Story. When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt—for example, “you must use the words ‘cloud’ and ‘green’” or “you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store”—can get your brain working in unexpected ways. In this creative writing guide, longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares 100 original exercises that will simultaneously push you into a corner and give you the tools to write yourself out of it. LaPlante explains the purpose of each exercise—to sharpen your ear for dialogue, generate surprising images, or access intense emotions—and breaks down student examples to reveal how to achieve these goals. Whether you are looking to jumpstart new ideas or find a fresh angle on a work in progress, and whether you write fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry, Write Yourself Out of a Corner will strengthen your imagination and your craft.