Thinking with Mrs Thigpen

This STEAM project includes directions for students to create a recycled robot to help celebrate Earth Day! Or you can decide when to give this project to your students and change up the directions as it is editable! It also includes a robot commercial planning sheet for students to be able to share about their robot. Students could then decide how to produce their commercial whether just getting up in front of the class and reading it or recording it using apps such as imovie, shadow puppet edu

Let students create their own minecraft selfie uisng graph paper and integrate with a math lesson on fractions and/or area and perimeter! Direct instructions as well as two different templates can be found with this project. A fun and engaging lesson for all!

This is a bundle of 14 different drawing starts to go along with almost each month of school. There is also a blank for student to be able to create their own drawing start and then have another student finish it. A great way to introduce this activity is reading the book Not a Box by Antoinette Portis. Use these as creativity warm-ups, fast-finishers or enrichment. You will be amazed by what your students create!

Thanksgiving Enrichment activities for your early finishers or as a morning warm-up! You will enjoy finding out what your students are thankful for during this school year. Activities focus on creative and critical thinking in order to help students with their fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration.

This digital choice board gives students several prompts but also allows for choice using the free app Scratch Jr. Students who have never used Scratch Jr. can scan the qr code to learn some of the basics! A great enrichment activity for the Hour of Code.

Halloween is a fun holiday to get kids thinking! This packet contains Halloween themed activities that focus on Fluency, Flexibility, Originality and Elaboration. No prep, just print and use as a morning warm-up or fast-finisher!

This set of gift tags comes with three different words of encouragement as well as both colored and black and white. Your students will appreciate the encouragement! When printing click fit to page in order for all of the tags to print correctly.

Does your school subscribe to PebbleGo? If so, these are two great animal research guides for your students to use! One allows for the students to draw a picture to go along with their research while the other excludes having them draw a picture. A QR code can also be found at the bottom for easy login access! Your students will be able to independently research on their own in no time with these guides.

This BUNDLE contains my creative and critical thinking activities for January, February, and March! It also contains my Winter Creativity Packet! Students will have the opportunity to use their imagination and creativity skills! Easy, low prep, just print and you are ready! *************************************************************************************************** This packet focuses on the four components of creativity using fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration! **********

These positive tags can be used for Valentine's Day or even motivational testing treats! You will find two different sets both with color and black &white versions! Click on the fit to page to print out all four correctly.

Have you introduce coding to your students with Scratch Jr.? This choice board is filled with different prompts for students to code and create a story that is themed around Fall/Halloween!

Flexible thinking allows students to look at things from different angles and produces many different kinds of ideas. This set of task cards can be used in conjunction with my Fluency task cards. This is a set of a total of 28 different flexible thinking questions, 7 colored and 7 black and white. Students will be able to see things in different ways after using these task cards!

This packet encourages creative thinking! You will love seeing your students imagination work as they complete these challenges! Perfect as a morning warm-up or enrichment activity!

These September creativity printables are great to use as a morning warm-up or for your fast finishers! Each one is themed around the month of September and focuses on fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration.

This packet contains creative and critical thinking activities based around Valentine's Day! Students will have the opportunity to use their imagination and creativity skills! It also contains a heart craftivity that includes instructions for students to use their imagination and create a picture out of only hearts that are provided. *************************************************************************************************** This packet focuses on the four components of creativity u

This set of popsicle themed tags includes 2 different says in both color and black and white. A positive note to attach to a special treat!

End of Year is always a fun time to ask your students to reflect about the past year! This packet contains creative and critical thinking activities for students to look back on their school year! No prep required, just print and enjoy finding out your students thought on the school year!

This packet will provide your students with the opportunity to work on their creativity skills! Each creativity challenge provides the opportunity to work on fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration!

Back to School is always a great time to learn about your students! These printables are ready to print, no prep required! One of the printables (Three Truths and a Fib) can be easily used with the website plickers as a way to get to know one another! I have given instructions on the next page of how to use the printable and website.

This packet contains creative and critical thinking activities based around St. Patrick's Day! Use these as warm-up activities for students to begin the day or even early finisher activities. *************************************************************************************************** This packet focuses on the four components of creativity using fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration! *********************************************************************************************