Art projects that are fun for kids and bring in big bucks for your school auction!
Summer is almost over! How did that happen? Where did the last 2 months go? With a little under 2 weeks left until we go back to school my mind has been increasingly drawn to planning for the ne…
Easy Matisse Art Project for Kids - A Henri Matisse art idea for kids of all ages with inspiration shape templates to inspire, draw or cut out.
Last year, our most popular kids activity series by far was Exploring Art History with Preschoolers. We continue to add to it over time, featuring simplified artistic techniques and fun books about art for kids. Today, my friend Nicola from Crafty Kids at Home is sharing some awesome kids painting…
Art projects that are fun for kids and bring in big bucks for your school auction!
Art projects that are fun for kids and bring in big bucks for your school auction!
Art projects that are fun for kids and bring in big bucks for your school auction!
Hey, friends! Today I'm sharing what my students, all of 'em, kindergarten through fourth grade, are working on to kick off the school year. I am calling them our Getting to Know You Sculptures! If you follow me on Instagram, than you know I've been sharing a lot of info about this. I've gotten a TON of requests for the sheet...so I thought I'd share it with you. I know this sheet has been unavailable for some time...the link has been fixed! You can get two sheets now! Here's one! Here's the other! I wanted to create a lesson that the kids would love, would be easy for all to be successful at and help me out...I have to be absent for the next couple of days. So I knew I'd want something that would be easy and fun for my sub. I created a video for my sub (I always do...it just makes for much smoother sailing) and I thought I'd share it with you...just so you could see how I explain this lesson to my students. Note: I WILL NOT be using the sheet with my kindergarteners. Here is the lesson that I do with them...very similar but without the sheet of paper as their guide: So far the kids have been LOVING this project and I am enjoying getting to know them! They've also been chatting to each other about why they picked what and it's so fun to hear them talk about it. I cannot wait to share with you how this lesson will progress...so stay tuned. You might have noticed that I DO NOT use glue bottles. You can find out why here. Not gonna lie, storage is gonna be an issue until we get these hung up! I'm having some classes do theirs on a white background 12" square paper and others on black. For open house night, I plan to hang them in a checkerboard patter. The strips of paper are cut frmo copy paper. In an attempt to stay organized, I'm keeping them clipped according to table colors. PLEASE NOTE...I love sharing lessons with you all and I do so for free. All I ask in return is that, if you use ANY of my lessons, please give credit where it's due. If you share on social media, please let folks know where you go the lesson from...this way they can benefit from the free resources as well. THANK YOU!
Looking for the most efficient way to hang student artwork for a school wide art show? Well look no further! Click through to follow the 6 easy steps that will save your time and your sanity and are art teacher approved!
We love these Mexico crafts for kids & think they're perfect to learn more about this amazing country! From sombreros to tacos, we've got a lot here!
Grade 6 students finally finished their sunflowers last week. This is a fun and relatively easy project that all students can find success with. I find most 'glue lines on black paper' projects are great for all levels and abilities of students. Chalk pastels are very forgiving and easy to work with, so I tend to start out with these types of projects at the beginning of the year to help build my students' confidence in Art. I out some real and fake sunflowers on display for students to look at. I wanted them to really see what an actual sunflower really looks like, as opposed to what they think a sunflower looks like (ie: a circle with triangles all the way around). We looked at the various sunflower paintings created by Van Gogh and discussed what makes them unique. We discussed his color sense and how his 'trademark' colors of blues and yellows were inspired by his time living in Provence. Using a white or light colored pencil, students drew their sunflower on large black paper. I encouraged them to draw large and fill the page, even going off the page. my sample drawing Then, using Elmers clear glue (my favorite type of glue for these projects as it dries black and shiny), slowly trace all over the pencil lines. You can also use regular white glue. Let these dry on a flat surface overnight. The glue will end up drying flat, not really a raised line like you'll get with the thicker white glue. Then color the sunflowers using chalk pastels. I demonstrated to the kids how to use white, as well as darker shades of oranges and browns, to create shading and more realistic looking petals. Save at least 5 minutes time at the end of class for clean-up because chalk pastels are messssssyyyy!!
A Collection of 70+ Simple Paper collages that kids will love - A collection of craft ideas that kids can make at home. Frugal, Open-ended & a lot of fun.
The beginning of a new school year is exciting but can also be a little bit nerve-racking for children and teachers alike! The first days need to fulfil several objectives including allowing everybody to settle in, to begin to re-connect/make new connections and to be filled with enthusiasm for the year ahead. Whole school or class projects are a great way to start the year with a bang, so here are 16 ideas to inspire and make everybody feel part of the team.
Today I had a 2 hour Animal Art Fun workshop for children ages 6-12. This wide age range posed a challenge for me to create projects appropr...
An elementary art teacher blog with art projects and lessons, DIY projects and outfit photos as well as clothing I have made myself.
With Dot Day coming soon (September 15), I thought I would share another collaborative display that my students and I created a few years ago. For this display I decided to take Dot Day in a different direction and combine it with the amazing new book “I Am Human” by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds. If you haven’t re
Fourth graders got to do this neat mind bending project. We began by looking at the work of MC Escher who loved both math (geometry) and art. As you can see he did very planned and precise artwork! We talked about how visual illusions are artworks that tease your brain and make you think! MC Escher was a master of illusions! Students also pointed out right away that MC Escher is very good at using value (shading) to create the illusion of form (3D shapes). This was a concept that we studied earlier. Next we used pre-made tessellation animal stencils to tessellate 5 animals. It was a challenge to figure out how each of the animals fit perfectly into itself. There is always a good amount of head scratching on this step! Afterwards, I point out to the kids that it was tricky to use the pre-made stencils but imagine how much trickier it would have been to invent this art! The next class we actually created our own tessellation tile out of a square lined index card and used it to fill in the background! In order to reference MC Escher's "Drawing Hands" picture students were encouraged to cut out a photo of their own drawing hand or MC Escher's! Learning Goals: I can... - Tell about MC Escher (illusion, tessellations) - Create a tessellation - Use pattern - Use contrasting color families to make animals stand out from the background
Kids can make something pretty incredible when they pool their talents.
Once upon a time (in my first year of teaching), I taught a tessellation project to my 4th grade students. Just like any good fairy tale, at some point things took a turn for the worse. As great as some of the projects turned out, I was exhausted by the amount of hovering it required me to do as a teacher and left me yearning for a different project. But again, just like any good fairy tale, this story has a happy ending... After taking a 3 year break from tessellations, I have finally made my comeback with an awesome tessellation project for my 5th grade students. Yayyyy! I started this project by showing my students an awesome PowerPoint that I put together that explains exactly what a tessellation is, some famous examples from history, and then differentiates between the 3 major types of tessellations: translations, rotations, and reflections. After showing them the PowerPoint, I gave each of my tables a basket that contained a few 3"x3" pieces of tagboard, a written set of directions (in case students get confused), scissors, and tape. Then I showed them step-by-step how to create a translation tessellation piece using my document camera (see the directions to the left). **A trick that I used this time teaching was to have students draw their shape from one corner to the adjacent corner. That way they don't have to worry about lining up the cut-out piece directly across from the original cutout.. you just have to line it up on the side. (This sounds confusing.. just look at my visual below.) Once students finished creating their own pieces, I passed out large sheets of scrap paper and had them practice making tessellations with their piece. This was their opportunity to make sure that their piece was properly crafted and that it would work. This was also a great opportunity for me to be able to walk around and assist those that found that their piece wasn't working. Once they verified that their pattern piece would work, I asked them to turn their piece around and see if they could see something that they could make their shape into (some type of character or monster). Monsters are honestly the easiest to do because, as I explained to my students, you can take any type of blob shape and slap some eyes on it and call it a monster (just being real). :) Once my students knew what they were going to make their shape into, I gave them a sheet of 9"x9" white drawing paper to use for their final project. I advised my students to use the original edges of their tessellation piece to help them to line up their shape on their sheet of paper. Even though this cuts off part of the piece, it really does help to make sure that everything stays properly aligned. I also explained to them that just because you can't see the whole shape, doesn't mean that they shouldn't add the additional details they were planning to add for their character - they just need to add what they can see. Once their pencil drawing was done (including adding details), students were asked to outline everything with a sharpie marker, and then add color with either crayons or color sticks. Many of my students decided to take their tessellation patterns and make each shape into its own character in a series (instead of just repeating the same thing over and over). Doing that really helped to keep more of my kids engaged in finishing their project because it made it a little more creative and a little less repetitive. If you are interested in this lesson, I have an incredibly awesome package posted up in my store. Seriously.. it has EVERYTHING. Included in the package: 1. Tessellation PowerPoint: An introduction to what tessellations are, a brief history, M.C. Escher (with a link to a interview he did), his influences, his artwork, and the three main types of transformations used in making tessellations – translation, rotation, and reflections. This PowerPoint includes animated slides, which make it easier for students to visualize the shape’s movements. 2. Color Your Own Worksheets: Grid-filled pages that students can demonstrate how to draw translation, rotation, and reflection tessellations on. 3. Practicing Transformations Worksheet: Worksheet asks students to reflect specific shapes over horizontal and vertical axes, translate shapes, and rotate shapes. 4. Step-by-Step Direction Sheets: Three step-by-step instruction sheets with visuals showing how to create stencils for all three transformations. These instructions also match up with the included videos, which also demonstrate how to create them step-by-step. 5. Practice Tessellation Sheet: This page includes the base stencil for all three transformations shown in the videos and step-by-step sheets. 6. Transformation Videos: 3 videos demonstrating how to create a reflection tessellation, translation tessellation, and rotation tessellation (including how to do a graphite transfer or light table/window transfer for complex details). Also available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.
First Grade Eric Carle Collages First Grade Eric Carle Seahorses Third Grade Weavings Second Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing Third Grade Weavings 1st Grade Eric Carle Butterflies 2nd Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages 1st Grade O'Keeffe Paintings 2nd Grade Wild Thing Watercolors Third Grade Weavings 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages 2nd Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings 3rd Grade Dot Paintings 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing 2nd Grade Wild Thing Watercolors 4th Grade Perspective Drawings Kinder Jasper Johns Paintings Kinder Picasso Guitars Kinder Jasper Johns Paintings
Learn about Andy Warhol and the pop art movement that started in the mid-1950s. Step-by-step instructions are also included for kids to create their own Andy Warhol strawberries.
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Kids can make something pretty incredible when they pool their talents.
Let me start out by saying this has been one of the most successful and visually stunning projects that I've ever done with my students. It is definitely the most exciting printmaking project that we've ever done at Thomas. I wrote the lesson and went into the project thinking that it would probably be pretty good. I told my students that I'm absolutely blown away by the results of their talent and hard work. This lesson is a keeper. My previous 4th grade printmaking lesson was decent, but not outstanding. It was too similar from an art-making perspective to the Wild Things I do with my 2nd graders. This year, I really wanted to push the medium a little more by printing with multiple colors. I ended up deciding to push it to three colors and add in a little vocab by also bringing in the use of complimentary colors. Check out the lesson plan here! Close up of the piece above. Wow. Whew. That was a lot of examples, right? I just couldn't help myself this time. They were all so good that I had to show them off. If you're still reading, you're in luck. I'm going to tell you how I did this project and I'm going to use pictures! Let your inner kid rejoice. Start with a drawing of whatever you want to print. I had my kids do animal portraits. I gave them each a piece of the foam they would be printing on, then had them trace around it to give them the size of the final artwork. I then collected the foam for use the following week. Tape your drawing over the printing foam and use a dull pencil or other blunt tool to press down on the lines of just the outline of the subject. Take the paper off and press down again to make sure the marks are deep enough to make proper prints. I had my students make sure they ended up with three good prints of the background on the first day of printing. Re-tape the original drawing the following class. Press down any remaining details. Cut out the subject along the line that was pressed down last time. Now print with this piece directly on top of the original prints. I had my students use at least one set of complimentary colors. On the final day of printing, cut out a small detail that makes sense to print in a third color. Then, you guessed it, print this piece right on top of the original prints. This was my demo piece I did with the materials above.
The other day my mum (and the kids' beloved Nana) came over to hang out. I thought that we could all do some art, as being creative together provides time for chatting, learning, connecting and bonding. Not only would we end up with some lovely artwork but also memories of togetherness that will last a lifetime. I'd been saving some watercolour paper to create something cool with for a while, and thought we could use it to paint some vibrant watercolour spider-web designs. You'll need watercolour paint, permanent marker and paper. A ruler could be handy as well. We all used watercolour paper except for the youngest as he wanted to do multiple paintings so we just stuck to regular paper for him. (Special watercolour paper is not super cheap but is lovely and thick and holds watercolour paintings just beautifully. For general watercolour painting we just use regular paper but for special pieces of art like this, a good watercolour paper will really make it special) The design of your spiderweb is up to you but a simple way to draw one is by using a ruler for your straight lines. A basic web could have 4 crossing lines like above. Add extra lines for a more intricate web. Then it is a matter of filling in the inside of the web. You can join line to line with straight or curved lines and make the gaps as big or small as you choose. When you've completed your spider-web template, it's time to paint. You don't need to worry too much about going over your lines as you can go back over them again when the paint is dry. The great thing about using water-colours is that you can clean areas by adding extra water and can blend and change colours easily. When you've finished all the painting, allow to dry (doesn't take long with watercolours) and then trace back over the original lines with your permanent marker. Both adults (myself and Nana) finished our pieces in the one sitting but they did take quite some time. Maddie (aged 6) did her piece over 2 sittings as she lost patience with it in the first sitting so we put it aside for her to come back to when she felt like it on another day. She was very proud of herself for finishing. I helped her trace back over the lines and she was completely delighted with the result. Maddie's spider-web art. Aged 6 Noah's spider-web art, aged 3 Nana's spider web art, age category 50-60 years ;) How's that mum? My spider web art. Aged 32 ;) Handy Tips: - Simplify this activity for younger children by drawing their spider web for them and encouraging them to choose different colours to fill each of the gaps. Talk about the colours they choose as they paint. - Extend this activity by having children make their own spider-wed designs. They might want to try multiple spider webs or include other details like branches or insects in their design. Adding these details in 3D later to the piece could work well. - Take it further by using books and the internet to look at pictures of spider-webs for inspiration. Do different types of spiders use different designs? - Mix it Up. Take your art to the next level by stitching over the spider-wed lines of your finished piece. This is possible if you've used a good watercolour paper like we do as it is nice and thick and will hold your thread. It will probably be not as effective if you've just used a regular piece of paper but still doable. - Creating works of art that are aesthetically pleasing can give children a real sense of pride and accomplishment. Children learn a lot about complimentary and contrasting colours when faced with placing colour after colour beside one another. - Art Teachers will love this one as it can be done by children of all ages but can look spectacular, especially if done with a whole class and displayed together. It's amazing how different all the designs end up when they often start looking very similar. As easy way to bring a very vibrant splash of colour to a hallway or classroom. - Talk with your child about what they are doing while they are creating. This will help them understand the physical and mental processes they are going through as well as giving them the vocabulary to describe it. While children are being creative and focused, it can be a great time to talk about sensitive issues and their feelings. - Use new language and descriptive words like, "space," "contrast," "complimentary colours," "design" etc. This will help with their language development. - Still feeling creative? Here are some of our other arty ideas for kids. You can see more in our Arts and Crafts category in the sidebar on the right-hand side. Squirty foaming paint Frozen paint cubes Invitation to paint with recycled materials Glue and paint canvas Comb painting Painting with spices Shower sponge painting Flower stencil canvas art Plastic food painting Cardboard comb painting Painting BIG Exploring paint on a mirror Toddler name art Happy creating, Debs :) Look where else we are. Are you following along? :)
This elementary art lesson for kids will feature adorable color chameleons while focusing on color theory and the science of chameleons. Grades K-2.
After having watched this interesting video of Arte… in pratica del canale circoloarci hm I proposed the activity with tessellations to the 6th-grade students. We followed the instructions in…
