Subject Area: English Language, Expressive Arts, Information Technology
Software Application: Kid Pix or Kid Pix Studio
(Can be done with any painting and slide show program.)
Alternatively, pictures can be drawn and then scanned into electronic format.

Instructions:
* Open a new Kid Pix document.
* Choose an idiom from the list below.
* Use the tools and stamps to portray your idiom.

Teacher options:
* Put the student's creations into a slide show.
* Create slides with "answers" and then put the slide show together in a "guess and check" method. (Show the idiom slide and then follow it with the "answer" slide.

If you would like to submit your pictures to this site. Email your Kid Pix files to the following address:

Keep it under your hat.
Walking on air.
Burns the candle at both ends.
On cloud 9.
Put your foot in your mouth.
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Between a rock and a hard place.
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
By the skin of your teeth.
Break a leg.
You're pulling my leg.
You're in the dog house.
Barking up the wrong tree.
Let the at out of the bag.
Can it.
Jump the gun.
Drive me up a wall.
My hands are tied.
Stick your neck out.
Play it by ear.
Out on a limb.
On your high horse.
Paint the town red.
Without turning a hair.
Shed some light on it.
Up in the air.
Roll with the punches.
Have a heart.
Lion's share.
Elbow grease.
Butter her up.
Pulled strings.
Turned a deaf ear.
Sill wet behind the ears.
Hold down the fort.
Over the hill.
Walking a tightrope.
Up a creek without a paddle.
Skating on thin ice.
In over your head.
Bury the hatchet.
Get off my back.
Beat around the bush.
Kick the bucket.
Raining cats and dogs.
Butterflies in your stomach.
Eyes are bigger than your stomach.
Spitting image.
Give a cold shoulder.
Keep a stiff upper lip.
Don't lose your head.
Foot the bill.
Break the ice.
Put your nose to the grindstone.
Off the hook.
Left high and dry.
Out of the woods.
Pass the buck.
Swallow your pride.
On the right track.
Wild goose chase.
Talk a mile a minute.
Eats like a bird.
Keep your shoulder to the wheel.
Clear sailing.
Blow your top.
Six feet under.
Running on empty.
Too many irons in the fire.
Hit the ceiling