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New Release and Product Review: Distress Stickles

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image by Heather Holbrook

image by Heather Holbrook

 Tim Holtz has posted a look at  his new products made for Ranger that are coming out this week at CHA. My favorite are the new colors of Distress Stickles!! I love this product, it’s a glitter glue like regular Stickles but the glitter is more random and chunky so it has the look of German glass glitter, it’s so cool!

Above is an Artist Trading Card (ATC) I made and I used Distress and regular Stickles on the stamped deer and bird. Use the nozzle , a paint brush or your finger tip to spread the glitter glue around, you can make thin or thick layers with it. As you can see in my sample you can add it on top of stamped images and some of the original ink color still shows through under the glitter. It does take a little while to dry, lay your project flat and try to resist touching it until it dries:)

-Heather

image by Tim Holtz

image by Tim Holtz

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There are lots of things you can do with leaves in the classroom and at home, and fun ways to learn about leaves as they start changing color in the fall. 

Learn about different kinds of leaves and match them to their trees with this printable from Montessori Nature. It includes 10 kinds of trees and their leaves to match with. If you have those trees nearby you can also find the real leaves to match with. 

Of course if you’re going on a leaf hunt yourself, you’ll want to save some of those leaves the kids find in their own leaf collection and identification books. You can learn how to make your own from Dappled Skies and DIYs. Or turn your leaf peeping into a sticky leaf scavenger hunt with this idea from Little Pine Learners.

There are a lot of easy art activities you can do with leaves, such as the classic rubbing (check out a tutorial if you need it from Laura Radniecki), complete a picture with half a leaf and learn about symmetry (like in this post from NurtureStore) or drawn in, on and around leaves to make fun art as shown in this idea from Artful Parent. 

Make your leaves into people, paint on them or with them; there are so many possible ideas!

Trace your leaves, label them with what kinds of trees they came from, and then play a matching game like this one from Preschool Toolkit. 

Early Learning Ideas has some great printables on the parts of a tree and a leaf, the life cycle of an oak tree and leaf sorting that you can find on Teachers Pay Teachers. Or check out the leaf investigation worksheet from Turner Tots. 

Looking for more leaf fun? Check out these ideas for leaf activities that don’t use real leaves, and these that do. And let me know what your favorite way to play and learn with leaves is!

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