Summer musings

I have no idea if i use cookies or not. I just write a blog. However my business bank account was hacked and it is still such a mess. personal consumber accounts are protected but not business!!  My advice is Yall be careful now ya hear? If any cookies are in use here I sure dont know it! I am not that computer savvy.
 I have been busy making candles, bath bombs, soaps, and lotion bars for my business, but  I have made one nice batch of lessons for out door art. I hope you all will enjoy it. Here it is:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Art-Lessons-for-the-Outdoors-3849980

Valentine TPT Sale

That's right- You heard it here! Treachers pay TEachers is having a Valentines Day Sale! So when you are tired from those class parties and cant make to Ash Wednesday service, come go shopping with us! Everything in my store will be 20% off and Tpt takes an additional 5% off your entire purchase.
Click on this link to get to my store:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Gena-Mcwilliams

Valentines Day is coming!

I have Valentines Coloring Sheets, Valentine Collages, Valentines connected to Symmetry and Valentines and the art of Jim Dine. Here are the links:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentine-Coloring-Sheets-2979429

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-and-Symmetry-534034

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easy-Valentine-Art-Projects-1090267

Snow and Valentines

Well last week we got snow! It was only for one day and it wasnt much but enough for schools to be cancelled. The next day some schools were still out because the snow melted and then the roads had ice. It was my birthday too. At least the weekend before I went to Saint Simons Island- my birthday gift to myself.
So now it's time to start preparing for Valentines Day and Black History month and Presidents Day. That's a lot for one month. My store has lessons for all three. One of my favorite lessons is the one about colonial art and the Limners who were really house painters. They also would paint portraits. They would take boards and paint bodies of people and children in various poses, all holding something. They would let the customer choose which pose he liked and paint the customers portrait on the body and also whatever personal object the customer would be holding.
Here's the link to the lesson:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ye-Olde-Colonial-Portraits-a-cross-curricula-drawinghistory-lesson-422600

Snowflakes

Ok I 'm here in the South. Last week or so ago the snow missed us and went to Atlanta. This week the snow went to South Georgia and turned to ice on the beach of Saint Simons Island. Again we were missed here in Middle Georgia.
 Monday is the big Georgia/Alabama game and they are calling for rain but a low of 33. I wonder if we will get any ice or snow? It usually happens when its not predicted.
I still have a cool product for cutting snowflakes, linking it to symmetry(both math and an element of art design) and some cool ideas about creating art with those snowflakes. Here is the link:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Snowflakes-and-Symmetry-1007433

I also have Winter coloring sheets. Here's the link:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Coloring-Sheets-2197096

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everybody! Ready to go back to school? Snow Wonderful snow? I wouldn't know. Here in the South we rarely get any. We usually get the dreaded ice. However it's a good time to teach cutting out snowflakes. My art lesson on Snowflakes and symmetry not only teaches how to cut out snowflakes but also gives suggestions what to do with those snowflakes.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Snowflakes-and-Symmetry-1007433

thanksgiving

Wow! I haven't blogged in awhile! So what's been going on with me? My grand children started a new school. We were hit by Hurricane Irma on September 11. My husband had back surgery already scheduled for the end of October so I had to help him clean up on the weekends and get the yard and any of his projects completed. Now we are in the recovery stage. I still have to help him because he cant bend. lift. or twist or drive a car or even ride in a car until December.
Our candle business has had some huge orders come in lately so that has also kept me away from blogging.
Thanksgiving and Fall art is one of my favorite times of the year. I like to introduce and study Native American art. The National Ocmulgee Indian Mounds is in my town. There is a lot of history here and over the years children have found scads of arrowheads.
A favorite lesson is my Easy Native American art lesson. It tells a bit about early Native American art  and can be taught as a review of geometric shapes.
Click on the following link to find the lesson:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easy-Native-American-Art-Project-1545675