All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

My 5-year-olds made some messy art to practice the idea of messy and neat. It's always good to save pieces of paper from other projects, you just never know when they may come in handy. They would have made things even messier if we had had time. This  craft was really simple to make because there was no right or wrong, just cutting and gluing wherever they wanted to. Beautiful messy art. 😉

 Had my bilingual group rip paper to create stems for flowers, a sun and part of a tree. They were doubtful but it worked. They used scissors for the flowers which they cut from paper circles into spirals and then rolled the paper up around a pencil to get a flower effect. They had first written about what butterflies need to survive on a white sheet of paper and glued it to the back of the black paper. I asked them to highlight the important wordds from the texts. Today they will read their texts to the class and present their butterfly houses. Here are some examples of their work. The text is mine, I forgot to take pictures of their texts.😬

This was an art project I did with my bilingual 4th grade class. We had been studying communities and they had to paint a cityscape but we did it with a twist. First, the students cut pieces of masking tape and taped them on a paper. Each piece of tape had a different size. Then, each student chose a color to paint their paper or rather city sky. The following class when the paint had dried, we peeled off the tape. It's best of you peel off the tape from top to bottom so the paint doesn't come off, too. So, now you have white rectangles of different sizes with a painted background. Students filled in the rectangles with windows and doors to make the city buildings. They also added airplanes, antennas and other details to their cities. Last, we glued their cities onto black creative paper for a more dramatic effect. At the end, you can have your students describe their cities to their friends, either in pairs or to the whole class. I love color and thought the final resu...