Phonics Word Builder

Hello Crafty friends, today I have an educational craft. I have made a Phonics Word Builder for a grade one or grade two child. Our kids are at camp and I am doing "those extra little things" while they are away. The Phonics Word builder teaches spelling and reading at the same time! This Phonics Word Builder can be found at the Snails Trail Blog.

Before putting the Phonics Word Builder  I did some strategic thinking about: How can I use other academic factors in this activity.  Colour coding was my answer. So I proceeded to colour code the pieces as follows.    Root word = yellows, blues and its hues

Consonants = red and its hues

Prefixes = purple and its hues

Blends = Green and it's hues

 The kids came home from camp for the weekend and tried it out! Our grade one-to-be wanted to build a word that she can write in a greeting card. {handmade card, perhaps? lol!} I made a fun little note for them to write the words that they create with the Phonics Word Builder . I was very excited to see how much fun this was for them. They giggles at words that "sounded" funny and squealed when they built word that they knew.

Recipe:

Tools: Stapler, 1 3/8 inch circle punch

Paper:

Paint chips

Stamps: 

Embellishments: 

Ink: Permanent ink marker.

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Homemade chicken-pot pie

Ingredient:
2 uncooked packaged pie shells
1 can of cream of broccoli soup
1/2 teaspoon curry powder{preferably red}
1/2 cup Mayonnaise
2 Chicken breast diced in 1 inch cubes
3 cups Broccoli florets
Dash of salt
1 cup shredded cheese

1) Preheat the oven as directed on Pie shell  package.
2) In a bowl whisk Mayonnaise, Cream of Broccoli soup and curry powder throughly. Set sauce aside.
3) In a non-stick pan cook the cubed chicken breast. When the chicken is white add salt and broccoli florets. Fried until chicken is fully cooked.
4) Use 1 pie shell as your base and prick the bottom with a fork.
5) Layer cooked chicken and broccoli, sauce, cheese and top shell in the base pie shell.
6) Use a fork to pinch the pie shells together all the way around to seal the layers in.
7) When sealed cut an "X"into the top of the pie and place on a cookie sheet.
8) Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Wow! that's some pretty paper...

This is one of those times where I had no idea what I was going to make and then it was perfect!

I just used random things on my desk and this wonderful card made it's self.

Also! We have a poll going over on Facebook. To share your opinion, "like"Handmade by Shaz on Facebook look for the question: What kind of paper craft and Scrapbook classes do YOU like?

Recipe:

Tools: paper Trimmer, EK Success. Martha Stewart Scalloped circle

Paper:

DP by Webster's Pages and SU! card-stock

Stamps:  SU!

Embellishments: Pop-dots

Ink: razzleberry, ink SU!.

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Rad Rocker Card

Recipe:

Tools: paper Trimmer, EK Success. Martha Stewart Scalloped circle

Paper:

DP and SU! card-stock

Stamps: "You Rock" SU!

Embellishments: Stickles Pop-dots

Ink: Stazon,black ink and Ruby Red ink SU!.

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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July 2011 Classes

I have four great workshops happening this month at the Burlington,Ontario Michael's Art's & Craft Store.  Here is the Google map for Burlington, ON Michael's.

Workshops are a 2 hour event and 4 cards are completed in this time.

Birthday card workshop {shown above}: July 6th, 2011

Martha Stewart~Punch Around the Page workshop: July 13th, 2011

Martha Stewart~Glitter Art butterflies workshop: July 20th, 2011

 

Hope to see you there with your glue!

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Teacher appreciation gift

This a craft referral... I made these frames for only $3 with tax for my kid's teachers.

Frames $2.00 and Crayons $1.00.  It took about an our to make two.

And my little girl used the scraps to make one for Daddy.

  

The full tutorial can be found at DIY: Crayon Initials! from frugal life project.

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Happy Krafting, Shaz

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