Ornaments made easy and a Giveaway!

I love this time of year! Making things with my kiddos and singing holiday songs! Listening to them chatter about Santa and what they asked for!

We made some beautiful ornaments and they used thin Kwik stix paint sticks to color them! The details were amazing and they were so bright! I found these wooden ornaments at Michaels. They came 12 to a package.

For those of you who have never heard about these paint sticks, you are in for a treat!!! They are paint in a stick almost like a glue stick! They work in all surfaces and the best thing is they dry within 90 seconds!! Paint without water! Paint without a mess!!! No brushes, no towels, no tears because their water spilled on their project!

Aren’t the colors amazing!! They are so vibrant!! The paint sticks my kiddos used were the thin stix! 

These are sold in target, bjs, toys r us, Michaels and online  They are amazing and a must have for classrooms, day cares and homes!!! 

Look one one more time at how amazing they are!!! 

These stix come in thick and thin and they come in brights, metallics and traditional colors!

Please enter below for a giveaway of a pack of thin paint stix!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck and happy holidays!! 

Kwik Stix- An Amazing Tool

I love Kwik Stix. They come in all varieties now. They come in glitter colors, primary colors, neon colors, thick sticks and now thin sticks.

Kwik Stix are amazing! They are paint in a stick. They dry within 90 seconds. They are bright and colorful. They last for a long time and kids love them!!!! Teachers love them! No clean up! No spilled water! No mess!!!

When we first used Kwik Stix in the classroom, all they had were regular and neon colors. When it is time to do our special projects or indoor recess when the weather is bad, my kids get so excited because they know that they will be using the paint sticks!

Look how bright the neon ones are!!!!!!

These are amazing!!!!

Then came the Metallix! These are amazing because they have glitter in them. The kids went crazy creating with these!

Then we got the privilege of trying out the thin paint stix. OH MY! These are amazing! My kids loved them! I love them!!!!!

easy to hold!

The thin paint sticks are so beneficial to my kids who have fine motor problems. I began using them to help them make shapes and pictures.  I use these with them to strengthen their hands.

These students can not have their picture taken so I will just post their art work before we began to use the thin Kwik Stix and after! You will notice a difference! The kids love using the paint stix!!!

Now, I let all of my kids use them and they love the thin ones because they can add detail to their pictures.

 I love them because I can write positive notes to my kiddos and they love receiving these randomly. 

Here are some of my Positive notes I have made for my kids!

Now for even better news!!!! Yes, you can find these amazing artistic, must have tools on Amazon. They are available 6, 12 and 24 packs.

If you click on the pictures of the paint stix above, they bring you to the Amazon link! 

So add these to your  Must Have list! You won't be disappointed!!!!!

A Winner and A Discount!!!

Hello, Everyone!!!

Well, it is time to announce the winner of the Kid Stixx Paint Stix!!!!!!   Drum Roll..............


And the winner is..........

But don't worry! Thanks to the awesome people at The Pencil grip, all of you are winners!!! 

Have an awesome day!!!

Kid Stix Paint Sticks and a giveaway

I first learned about this amazing product at the French Lick Teacher Blogger Meet Up (click on link to see my post about this awesome event)! I was like paint stix what are these!! So of course, I had to try them and do a review on them (click on the link to read my review)! This was on the primary color stix. Click on their logo to check them out!!!!

 Then I was given the opportunity to try and blog about the NEON paint stix! OMG!!!! These are amazing!!! They are so bright and colorful! My kiddos loved them.

Now for those of you who are not familiar with paint stix. These are tempera paint stix. They look like glue sticks but they are tempera paint! The kids just take the cap off and paint! There is no water needed! No mess! Doesn't spill or get all over everything! And it dries in 90 seconds!!!! YES! 90 SECONDS!!!!!! My kiddos loved these!!!!

Look how bright these are!!!!

My kids used these when we did directed drawing lessons in ELA!!!! This is the lesson we did on Snappsy the Alligator for point of view!!!! Click on link to buy the book!!!!!

Look how bright green the alligators are!! No smudges or paint all over their hands!!!!!! 

Then they used them during quiet time!!!!

They used them during social studies when they had to draw maps and pictures of their families!!

These paint stix are amazing if you have the HUe Animation Camera!!! They are so bright and they look amazing in the videos that your kids create!! We used them for our rainforest videos. Here is one of their pictures!!!

There are so many ways to use these in your classroom!!

Now how about a giveaway??? 

The Pencil Grip have given me a six pack of primary and a 6 pack of neon paint stix to give away to one of my lucky readers!!! Enter using the rafflecopter below!!!!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

And the winner is..................

My giveaway for the Kwik Stix paint sticks is over and the winner is.........

Kwik Stix- Amazing Paint Sticks!!'

I love art supplies! I love anything that brings out the creativity of my kiddos! So, I have to tell you about these awesome paint sticks from The Pencil Grip! When I went to the French Lick Teacher Blogger Retreat in March, every teacher received these awesome paints! So not only does this company create products that bring out my kiddos creativity but they also support teachers! yay!!!

These paint sticks are amazing! We had indoor recess and my kiddos wanted to paint! You all think you know what I was thinking don't you? You think I was thinking we only have 15 minutes, that's a lot of mess to have to pick up  and where am I going to put them to dry! Well, nope I wasn't thinking any of those because these paint sticks are mess free! Yes I said mess free! No water needed! No bridges needed and they dry within 90 seconds! Yes, you read it correctly 90 seconds! 

 On top of it all, they are so vibrant! I love how they make my kiddos work come alive!!!!!

Another great thing about these is the fact they last a long time! My whole class of 23 used them during recess. They all painted at least 3 pictures a piece and there is still enough left for I would guess 6 more indoor recesses like today if not more!

Here are some more photos of their masterpieces!!!

 So you have seen and read about how amazing these are! Now is your chance to win a set! Just enter the rafflecopter below to win your own set of Kwik Stix from the pencil grip company!!!!!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway