This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more... →
This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more... →
How does ART fit into STEM? STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math This month’s Art Ed Blogger’s Network topic is STEAM. How do art teachers approach STEAM in the classroom? Should art teachers embrace STEAM? There are many different opinions on STEAM. Personally, I like to bring in different subjects to the art room. I think it’s great that so many of our art projects involve other disciplines. However, I also think art for arts sake is important too. … Read more... →
Art History 101: Early Elementary Response to the Masters. Paintings, Drawings and more inspired by Mondrian, Picasso, Van Gogh, Johnson and Kandinsky. Art teacher support RoundUP at RainbowsWithinReach
This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more... →
GUYS! I am SO EXCITED! Our new addition is complete and the physical space of our school has doubled. It is so nice to not have to push your way through the halls. It’s like there’s breathing room now. We also have a new art room, so I HAVE MY OWN ROOM NOW. I’m so thrilled that we don’t have to share a room anymore and all of our supplies can spread out. I have the old room and our … Read more... →
This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more... →
Alrighty. Here's a common Art Ed issue that tends to stress us out: What to do with those early finishers? Those kids who genuinely finished their work of art two weeks before everyone else? You know
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Try these fun and educational activities for kids. Make a volcano, a tornado, glitter jars (like snow globes), giant bubbles, dry ice bubbles, and more.
Earlier this year, my co-worker Jayne found the idea to make a collaborative school-wide paper mural based on the artwork of Thank YouX. The idea for a student mural originally came from Jenell Novello and you can see the lesson plan write-up on Artsonia. She also so generously provided the lesson plan and templates on Google docs. Thank You X got his name by accident. In 2009 Andy Warhol’s spray painted portrait was spotted on a city street in L.A.. … Read more... →
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This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more... →
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One of the best areas of my room is the free choice station. It immediately answers that usually tricky question, “I’m done. What do I do next?” Setting up a free choice station is a great way to make sure that the creativity keeps flowing in your art room, even when the projects are finished. […]
Fun and delicious edible atom models science project! Wonderful early chemistry for kids science experiment!
Looking for drawing ideas for kids? Then check out these fun fingerprint art easy drawings that feature Ed Emberley's Funprint Fingerprint Art book. The drawing frames paired with the start of a fingerprint are a great way to inspire kids to become more artistic.
Alrighty. Here's a common Art Ed issue that tends to stress us out: What to do with those early finishers? Those kids who genuinely finished their work of art two weeks before everyone else? You know
I've Got A Little Light And I'm Gonna Let It Shine! Do you study fireflies? I think you'll enjoy the following activities! Click on the link to view/download the entire Firefly Packet or click on the separate links below. Almost every night that my husband Daniel and I are out walking with our puppy, Chloe, we are amazed at the “dance of the fireflies”. As a child I enjoyed catching “lightning” in a jar and then letting these amazing insects go before they died. I was simply fascinated at their ability to illuminate. Firefly Art: 1. Print off my “You light up my life with LOVE.” bookmark, color it and leave it in a special place for that special someone to find. Click on the link to view/print the firefly bookmark. 2. Run off copies of my wax paper winged firefly. Students cut out their brown firefly and glue a yellow "glow" tip to the end. Add wiggle eyes with glue dots. Cut a black pipe cleaner in 1/2. Make it into a V. Scotch tape the V to the back of the firefly. Curl each end around a pen to make antennae. Accordion fold an 11x5 sheet of wax paper, round the edges, fold in the middle and staple to the center of the firefly. Cute as is, or hot glue to a clothespin. Click on the link to view/print wax paper-winged firefly. 3. Buy a package of Popsicle sticks that look like ice cream spoons. Paint the rounded side with neon yellow paint and then a coat of glow-in-the-dark paint. Paint the upper part light brown. Add wiggle eyes and tissue paper wings. If you twist a ½ piece of pipe cleaner around the middle and make it into a ring, you’ve just made yourself a finger puppet; or hot glue a clothespin to the back, add a magnet and hang on your refrigerator to leave love notes to light up someone’s life! 4. Print off my template and make a firefly keepsake jar by dipping your index finger in bright yellow paint, and then making firefly bodies by pressing your fingerprint all over your bug jar. Let the prints dry and then brush on glow-in-the-dark paint with a Q-tip. Add wings with a white pencil or crayon. Put an aluminum foil lid on the top and you have “lightning in a jar!” Click on the link to view/print the firefly keepsake jar templates. This is a great activity to do after reading 10 Flashing Fireflies. I only put 7 fireflies in this blue Ball Jar, but if you do this as a follow up to that story, have children do 10 fingerprint fireflies. 5. Cut 5x7 rectangles of yellow construction paper. Cut out the template of my firefly out of cardstock and trace around it with a yellow crayon on the yellow construction paper. Place a Dixie cup of diluted black tempera paint in the middle of the table. You should have enough tempera so that the paper will get covered, but enough water so that the water-paint mixture will bead up on the waxed crayon and reveal the firefly and not paint opaquely over it. Have children “wash” paint over their entire middle of their paper. I do this activity after I read Eric Carles’ book The Very Lonely Firefly. I tell my students: “OK let’s go find some more firefly friends for this firefly.” I ask them: “When do fireflies come out?” They respond: “At night.” So I tell them: “The sun is shining on this paper. It is bright yellow. You have to make night come by painting it black, so that the fireflies will come out.” They are amazed to see their firefly appear! 6. For an adorable firefly bulletin board done with Christmas lights click on the link. Firefly Language Arts Activities: Firefly Bibliography: "What do we see in the summer night? Ten flashing fireflies burning bright!" Click on the link to view/print other firefly books that I recommend. I've highlighted in yellow my favorites. Click on the link to view/print a copy of my firefly bibliography. {amazonWS:itemId=1558586741} 123 Count Fireflies With Me: Read, trace, write, count, and then cut and glue the group of fireflies to the matching numbered boxes. Have students use a yellow bingo dot marker to fill in the appropriate amount of dots in the squares. For an easy reader counting booklet click on the link. Firefly counting booklet. Don’t be “bugged” by the –ight words! Get a jump-start for fall and study them with my cute lightning bug flashcards. Click on the link to view/print them. Make the cards even more fun, by painting the letters with glow-in-the-dark paint! Firefly flashcards Click on the link to view/print a firefly fan book of trace and write the firefly vocabulary words & a firefly life cycle fan book. Firefly Fan Books Cut out the strips, punch a hole in the middle of the bottom. Put the pages together with a brass brad so they unfold like a fan and you have a cute way to review words and science! Click on the link to TRACE and put the -ight words in ABC order. Firefly skill sheet. Print off my lightning bug silly story poem, hang it in your room, turn off the lights and pretend you’re a lightning bug and read it in the dark by pointing at each word with a flashlight. Firefly story poem + notes home. Click on the link to make a firefly class book. Click on the link for my firefly prose poem. For another cute lightning bug poem click on the link. Math Practice: If you’re teaching summer school and doing fireflies with your students, or home schooling, clink on the link to view/print a firefly graph. 123-Count fireflies with me skill sheet. Click on the link to view/print firefly counting skillsheets + an addition subtraction skill sheet. Etc. For a firefly life cycle wheel, click on the link. For a fact sheet on fireflies and a firefly to label and color, click on the link. Firefly stuff For a "bright student" firefly certificate of praise, click on the link. For some awesome firefly photographs of real fireflies, click on the link. I hope you enjoy these fun firefly activities, and I hope you get to see some real fireflies this summer! As always, if you have a firefly activity you do with your children, I’d enjoy hearing from you. [email protected] Feel free to PIN anything you feel might help or interest others. Until next time try saying this tongue twister: Fifty-four fireflies friskily flitted frantically from the frog’s ferocious feast!
Kindergarten artists read the book "The Five Little Pumpkins" and thought about the way that each pumpkin was feeling in the story. We looked at the way the illustrator showed those feelings by the way that he drew them. We recited the book's poem and acted out those emotions so that we could see and feel what our faces were doing when we looked surprised, scared, bored, sad, and happy. We drew these expressions on each of our pumpkins. On the back, students wrote, "Cartoon Expressions" so that they could share with mom and dad what they were learning about and some even added the poem linked below: Learning Goals: I can recognize what different facial expressions look like and make them with my own face. I can draw like an illustrator. I can draw 5 different cartoon expressions.
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Alrighty. Here's a common Art Ed issue that tends to stress us out: What to do with those early finishers? Those kids who genuinely finished their work of art two weeks before everyone else? You know
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This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more... →
Looking for some good iPad apps to teach STEAM in your classroom? This collection created by We Are Teachers is definitely a must see. It provides about 60 iPad apps categorized under different subject areas, all of which are geared towards enhancing your kids' STEAM knowledge. The app recommendations are also arranged in such a way that you will be able to access apps for different grade levels (k-12). I have spent sometime going through this collection and find it really worth sharing with you here. Have a look and share with us what you think of it.
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We began this lesson by reading the book "Iggy Peck, Architect" by author Andrea Beaty and discussing what exactly an architect is and does. Then we looked at a Powerpoint I put together showing a variety of interestingly designed structures. As we view the images, the students and I discuss the interesting shapes and architectural details they see on the structures. Then I have the students go back to their desks and give each of them a large brown paper bag (they write their name on the bottom flap). I explain to students that using construction paper crayons and scrap paper they are to design their own buildings. How they want their building to look is entirely up to them! It can be a house, an apartment, a skyscraper, a store, whatever... At first I was a little unsure about doing this lesson with my first graders.. but I'm so happy I took the chance and did it with them! I LOVEEEEEE it! My teacher sample
There's so much more to do with kindergartners than finger painting.
This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more... →
I can remember my earlier drawing experiences as a child was copying other art (to be precise...Super Mario Characters) and I was very focused and determined to make an exact replica. These copy art inspired drawing prompts are simple but yet require focus and attention to detail. There are 40 drawing prompts in color, black/white and blank ones, an intro page, and 3 differentiated lined writing options. The blank prompts are for you or your students to create your own copy art (2 versions, full color and black and white with a hint of color). Student's are able to work on drawing skills. Great for critical thinking and early finishers. Like this listing? Grab COPY ART SET 2 or buy the BUNDLE. Check out more DRAWING ACTIVITIES. For more creative ideas and freebies: VISIT DOODLE THINKS WEBSITE FOLLOW ME ON PINTEREST Terms of Use: Files are for personal use or educational purposes only and they cannot be redistributed (posted for others), copied, or sold. All graphics, unless otherwise stated, and resources are creative property of Saroum V Giroux. Please view my complete TERMS OF USE for more details. Have fun drawing! Earn some TpT credit for your future purchases by leaving a review on downloaded resources!
Share & Help Me GrowIt’s Science Saturday! Can you believe we are getting close to the end of our study through Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology? Wow. Sharing my weekends with The Homeschool Scientist has been so much fun. This week we studied the skin. In my craft supply cabinet, I keep […]
Alrighty. Here's a common Art Ed issue that tends to stress us out: What to do with those early finishers? Those kids who genuinely finished their work of art two weeks before everyone else? You know
My kinderartists learned about mixing two primary colors to create a secondary color this week, and we practiced by painting or scribbling a big round circle with our mixed colors. Next we talked about geometric shapes and how to cut them out. The goal is to be able to glide the scissors across the paper like a pencil - free-cutting. Some students tried this method and others who felt less confident with cutting tried drawing the shapes first and had good luck with that. The shapes became the faces of our favorite animals when glued to the big circles. We were behind one day due to a teacher workday so that class tried the scribble technique, making it possible to complete in just one session. I really like the energy in these - such a great effect from simple scribbles and shapes.
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Geometry for Young Children. Creative Shape Projects: arts and crafts using simplest of shapes. RoundUP via RainbowsWithinReach
Alrighty. Here's a common Art Ed issue that tends to stress us out: What to do with those early finishers? Those kids who genuinely finished their work of art two weeks before everyone else? You know
This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more... →
Ecco una nuova ed interessante attività ideata dal collega Giovanni Perdicchia, che ha già contribuito al sito arteascuola con un suo lavoro sulla conoscenza delle opere d’arte attraverso la …
