cut a construction paper frame

Side view of the project

Brief Description: This construction paper frame stands on its own and is an affordable way for children to display photos of their family around their room. Mrs. Lewis, a paper craft enthusiast, made a template for my teen daughter to use in the cutting of the window.

Supply List:

• three sheets of solid colored paper
• markers
• an oval window template, included below (6 1/2 inches by 4 inches)
• a favorite photograph (4 inches by 6 inches)
• white craft glue
• scissors

Directions:

1. Use the template provided below to trace and cut out the front paper "mat" of your frame
2. Then color the mat using simple shapes and bold colors.
3. Cut a second mat just 1/8 to 1/4 inch larger than the first.
4. Glue only the corners of your photograph onto this mat. Use minimal amounts of glue
5. Then center the decorated mat on top of the second to frame your photograph as you like and glue down the edges only.
6. Fold the remaining sheet of paper 15 inches by 7 inches into three equal parts.
7. The end fold will have an additional fold of one inch so that this edge may be folded up and behind the frame and glued into place.

Additional Suggestions: I would advise using acid free papers and glues for this project in order to avoid damage to valuable photographs.

My daughter's finished version of the project.

This template may be downloaded and sized in a
word document to fit the above measurements.
Read the Terms of Use before using it folks.

photographs and written craft pages copyrighted by Grimm 2017 

More frames crafted from paper:

• Folded Paper Frame by Beate Johns 
• Origami Photo Frame
• Christmas Star Paper Frame
• A Quilled Valentine's Day Photo Frame

the golden rules of teaching according to peanuts!

The Peanuts gang by Charles M. Schulz. Top row: Woodstock, Snoopy, and
Charlie Brown Bottom row: Franklin, Lucy van Pelt,
Linus van Pelt, Peppermint Patty and Sally Brown

"Thoughts and Golden Rules on Education"
was found at a St. Louis Book Fair by my sister-in-law.
We couldn't bear the thought of seeing it tossed out!
It was apparently made for a very special principle, "Miss Hays."

Rule Number 1 - Don't Lose Your Cool.

Rule Number 2 - Answer every question no matter how strange,
inappropriate, or ridiculously stupid.

Rule Number 3 - Don't smile until after Christmas break.

Rule Number 4 - Encourage harmless fantasy
and creative goals.

Rule Number 5 - Recognize student accomplishments!

Rule Number 6 - Volunteer and expect the worst.
Then repeat the scenario frequently.

Rule Number 7 - Tell the student what to do by suggesting it
and then look surprised when he or she doesn't conform.

Rule Number 8 - Be prepared to reinvent yourself now and again.

Rule Number 9 - It's alright to get a bit excited
about the end of the school year.

Rule Number 9 - again

Rule Number 10 - Treat everybody the same,
even though their not,
the same that is.

Rule Number 11 - Establish your authority early in the game,
I mean school year.

Rule Number 12 - Education is always number one priority,
although education about life sometimes gets in the way.

Rule Number 13 - Educators know more about
meetings than CEOs do.

Rule Number 14 - Sometimes it is better to just "sleep it off."

Rule Number 15 - The joys of life should always be
remembered with great nostalgic affection.

Rule Number 16 - This rule is often forgotten.
What was that rule again?

Rule Number 16 - Oh, yeah,
never forget to butter both sides of your toast,
oh, I mean bread.

Rule Number 17 - Teachers and administrators should be best friends.

Rule Number 18 - Saturday is the principle's day off!

Rule Number 19 - Secretaries rule, the rest of us drool.

Rule Number 20 - Principals should answer all questions.

Rule Number 21 - Teachers get fired if they don't know everything.

Rule Number 22 - Integrity, tenacity, accuracy always.

Rule Number 23 - A happy administrator,
makes for happy holidays.

Rule Number 24 - Learners inherit the Earth,
even when you least expect it.

Rule Number 25 - Always at all times
and in all places
be
appreciative.

More Links To Peanuts:

• The Best Peanuts Gang Pinboard Ever!
• The Official Peanuts by Charles Schulz Website
• Peanuts at GoComics.com
• Peanuts Collector Club
• 'Peanuts' Turns 60 - slideshow by Life magazine
• Novelist Jonathan Franzen's long New Yorker article "The Comfort Zone: Growing Up With Charlie Brown"

Famous North American Painters Students Should Know?

Question: Could you list famous North American painters you think students should be able to identify by the time they graduate from high school and also show a sample of their work?
Answer: Well, if they could recognize these painters, they really would be well educated. Unfortunately, students educated in American public schools are far more familiar with Western European painters. There are many more painters I would include in this list but can not for fear of violating copyrights. Artists like Fritz Scholder, he is also an exquisite painter but I haven't any jpgs. of his work.

Albert Bierstadt, "The Rocky Mountains, 
Lander's Peak", 1863, Hudson River School

James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in 
Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother (1871)
popularly known as Whistler's Mother,
Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Read his letters here.

Edward Hicks, "The Peaceable Kingdom"
(1826), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

"A Bigger Splash", by David Hockney
1967, Tate Collection, London.

"Keith" by Chuck Close in
The Saint Louis Art Museum

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" is by German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. It commemorates General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on December 25, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. That action was the first move in a surprise attack against the Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey in the Battle of Trenton. The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There are many copies of the painting, one of which is in the West Wing reception area of the White House.

"American Gothic" is a painting by Grant Wood,

in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

"The Builders" by Jacob Lawrence

"Boston Cream Pies" by Wayne Theibaud
in the South Dakota Art Museum

"Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth is now
at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City

"Black Mesa Landscape" by Georgia
O'Keeffe in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
O'Keeffe painted the majority of her landscapes
at Ghost Ranch where she lived out the later part of her life.

"Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper is one of
his best known works, Art Institute of Chicago

"Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" by Mary
Cassatt is at The National Gallery of D.C.

Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
The Figure 5 in Gold (1928)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thomas Hart Benton's "Lord Heal This Child"
preliminary painting, in a private collection

"Beyond the Easel" self-portrait and boy scouts
of America by Norman Rockwell

abstract by Willem de Kooning (1957)

"Gloucester Harbor," 1873, oil on canvas by Winslow Homer.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg, untitled "combine," 1963.