Kid Lit Inspired Lessons

1. Celebrate International Dot Day with this amazing color wheel augmented reality Quivervision activity!

2. Use this step by step resource for a collaborative class project to celebrate Dot Day

1. Cardboard Robot Stop-Motion Animation detailed lesson guide for three projects centered around an expressive robot.

2. AR Emotional Robot Lesson and Poster Set and Discussion Starter Game

1. Create a spooky hologram effect that lifts from your screen reflected in a prism (template included).

2. Download this Haunted ARt activity that makes the book cover and famous artwork haunted with AR.

1. Draw and paint corduroy- REMOTE learning tutorial video

2. Step-by-Step Teddy Bear Painting inspired by Corduroy

3. Bundle with both remote and in-person lessons

1. Collaborative poem from self-portraits using Chatterpix.

2. Download my AR book covers to make this and other Dr. Seuss books come to life.

1. Step by step clay penguin lesson focusing on the math concept of division.

2. Create a stop motion animation. See my blog.

Help students reflect on the story with coloring pages, drawing pages, and reflections on interrupting with this activity packet.

Watch the author read her book during the TeacherGoals WRAD event.

1. Apple still life lesson that teaches foreground, middle ground, background, and overlapping in a concrete and stunningly beautiful way.

2. Take a quick mini-course to learn all my teaching strategies for this lesson.

1. Color, draw, and dive into the story with this fun activity packet

2. Try this 2 frame animation lesson to make a moving creepy carrot.

3. Try my free creepy carrot landscape Seesaw lesson

1. Grab this step by step Lesson guide to draw dinosaurs, color with analogous colors, and set them in imaginative environments as the book suggests.

2.Try my how to draw dinosaurs packet to customize your learning adventure.

1. Keith Haring inspired template to cut out and assemble for drawing/painting projects. Use them also for stop motion animation.

2. Digital drawing and animation tutorial inspired by Keith Haring's action figures using Do Ink app on the iPad.

1. Grumpy Monkey activity packet with drawing guide, SEL reflection, coloring page, and bookmark template.

2. Use this link to download my Eyejack Edu QR Code to make the book cover come to life with augmented reality. (Download app)

1. Step-by-step pumpkin landscape that teaches overlapping, foreground, middle ground, background, color mixing, and visual texture to young students.

2. Digitally assign students my easel activity that helps them visualize their composition before they begin creating.

1. Recreate a scene from the story by flying on a paper airplane in search of friendship while practicing empathy using this lesson that combines green screen, animation and a paper airplane.

2. Learn an exciting way to display this digital animation with augmented reality (also here).

1. Use this template and step by step guide to create an expressive moveable color monster while exploring how color and facial expression communicates feelings.

2. Use the monster to create a collaborative stop motion animation that further expresses emotion (also in this same lesson).

The activity packet includes

• a step by step drawing guide for Celeste the mouse
• Speak like an Osprey chart to find your new name
• Draw along with Henry Cole in my exclusive video
• Download my illustration to recreate a scene from the story

1. Learn to make a big (any color) monster with while learning about additive/subtractive methods of paper construction.

2. Learn to make your monster come to life with a simple animation technique using this free tutorial.

3. Take a free mini-course to learn this lesson step-by-step

1. Design your own alien for these resources and creative prompts.

2. Animate your alien with this tutorial and drawing guide using the Do Ink Animation App. This lesson could also be used to create an animated gif that moves across a path using the animation tools in Canva or keynote.

1. Image life in a snow globe with my drawing sheet

2. Then, use my snow globe template in Do Ink Green Screen App to set up a live green screen photo booth

3. Learn step by step how to make a digital snowman for a animated snow globe all in this one lesson

This book is one of my favorites for its play on words, clever homophones, and super fun illustrations. Teach your students to draw Olive as you read or as they watch the animated musical version of the book using this resource and step-by-step drawing guide.

This Mouse Paint Activity Packet is closely connected to the concepts demonstrated in the story: primary colors, secondary colors, and color mixing. Students learn to draw mice, fill in a color wheel using only the primary colors, and mix secondary colors as they enjoy the story.

1. Make a monochromatic fish with visual texture with this step by step resource for young artists.

2. Animate the fish painting and (optional) display it in a flipbook kit.

3. Sculpt a fish out of clay (Perfect for a stop motion animation).

1. Learn to draw a snowfriend in the style of Briggs' with and color it with highlights and shadows using color pencils.

2. Use green screen and stop motion animation to recreate the flying scene in the story with this amazing lesson. Display it with augmented reality.

1. Color robots then scan them with the Quiver app to see them come to life with AR

2. Draw, animate, and voice robots that express their feelings with this fully packaged mini-course

3. How to draw robots - step-by-step guides.

This book is great for introducing portraits to young artist for their first self-portrait lesson.

This concept would also introduce the Exquisite Corpse collaborative project since it has a similar structure but for the body rather than face.

Teach your students that giraffes CAN dance with this comprehensive lesson that leads you through drawing, painting, and optional glow art experience! There are also directions for a digital animated dance party using Do Ink (or canva animation tools).

This book inspired tons of fun experiences for my young artists. We made our own veggie monsters. Then we collaged them on ourselves to make Eat Your Veggies posters. Then we animated little monster gifs. Check out this free AR cover too!

Grab this activity packet based on the book full of activities that will help kids dive into the mannerly content as they draw, color, & reflect. Want to dive deeper? Check out the Mannerly Monster book.

This book is a perfect introduction to a self-portrait color mixing lesson where students draw and paint their portraits. Use this drawing guide to get started. Or, keep is clean with this digital verison.

Use this glowing cityscape lesson in one-point perspective to create the city that you would want to fly over as seen in the story. Honor the author with this LEGO MURAL of Faith Ringgold.

Create ghostly holograms that lift from your screen and dance in your plastic prism (template included). This lesson is a great way to teach animation, reflection, duplication, rotation, and prism.

Use this book to challenge your students to use their imagination and creativity. The Ink Blot Creativity Challenge would be a perfect match. Explore the free activity packet from TeacherGoals.

Reflect on manners while coloring scenes from Monsters Have Manners. Learn to draw the monsters and explore two with augmented reality using the free Quiver app. Or, try this activity packet.