A fun and creative elementary school art lesson plan for K-4th grade. This lesson plans is perfect for celebrating International Dot Day. Art teachers and educators can teach students creativity, courage & collaboration with Kandinsky inspired artwork.
This post covers tips to designing a successful middle school art curriculum. It's all about scaffolding, building confidence, and having fun
Unlock the Power of Art Exit Slips! Explore 9 creative ways to use these formative assessments in your elementary art room. Engage young artists and enhance learning with practical ideas!
Welcome to the How-To Guide for First Year Art Teachers where I give you my 10 Steps for Success! Congratulations! You got your own classroom. OH MY GOSH, you have your own classroom. Your mind and stomach start racing, both with extreme excitement and panic because now, it all just got real. You will have a lot of students, a lot of planning, and a lot of classroom to keep organized. Figuring out where to even start is a huge stress and will require a tea (or a beer) and a nap (probably some Netflix too).
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Teach children art history through a variety of fun art projects and lessons. We love using artists as inspiration for our own creations.
In this Aquarium Perspective Lesson, Middle School students will dive right into learning about the principle of perspective while designing an aquarium.
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The Artists and the Elements is a year long art curriculum that combines the elements of art, art history, and hands on art projects that make art fun!
Try these middle school drama lessons and ideas.
The Circle Game asks students to come up with as many different things as they can from one circle. I thought this activity was really fun! However, my elementary students were not that interested. Most of my kids' papers were dull circles with a scribble on them. I think older kids might "get it" better. I have included the handout from Ande Cook's Art Starters as well as my lesson plan with all the directions for a sub. The Ande Cook handouts were part of a SchoolArts subscription, or you can get her book: Art Starters
Teaching the elements of art to elementary school children can be a rewarding and challenging experience for educators. The elements of art are the building blocks that form the foundation of visual arts. These elements include line, shape, form, space, texture, value, and color. Understanding and mastering these elements can help children create beautiful and meaningful art.
Choose from 58 fun STEAM art projects and activities for kids to explore art while learning science, technology, engineering, and math, too!
Drama games & activities in your classroom or drama club as warm-ups, ice breakers, or as fun activities to start any class!
If Montezuma had an Instagram account, what would he say when Cortez arrived in 1519? My fourth graders have some ideas. We are finishing our study of the conquests of the Inca and Aztec empires and have been reading about … Continue reading →
Check out the 12 most thorough and exciting art lessons on YouTube for your budding artists. From sketching to acrylic paints, there's something for all!
If you are looking for an art rubric for your elementary students, here’s one created with real teacher feedback.
Have you ever thought about using wordless videos in your speech therapy lessons? It increases engagement! Start with these videos...
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Imagination Workout Printable Click the link above to download Attalie’s Imagination Workout free printable art worksheet.
Surrealism - This one-page Surrealism Art Lesson asks your students to create a drawing that combines 2 drawings together - you end up with a set of 3 drawings. This task is within keeping of Surrealist movement where artists would transform or morph one object into another. This worksheet creates a...
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Being out for even a single day is more work than actually teaching! Scrambling to figure out engaging, no tech art sub plans for elementary kids can be incredibly stressful and time-consuming. There's nothing worse than being sick and thinking, "And now I have to write emergency lesson plans?"
Teaching empathy is important. In the simplest of terms, empathy is the ability to notice, understand, and share the emotions of others. It is a critical social skill for all people to have. In many ways, empathy is the social skill that paves the way for all other social skills. It helps us to take
We've all used exit tickets in our classroom for informal assessment, but sometimes it can become boring. Read this post to get exit ticket ideas on how you can engage students with exit slips and still assess your students!
Free Readers' Theater PDFs 4-Little-Pigs, Carnival of Animals, Summer of Riley, Thanksgiving A to Z, Whipping Boy, Chicken Little, Little Red Hen, and The Moorchild, 3 Billy Goats Gruff
Students learned how to mix tints (a color + white) and shades (a color + black) then used this skill to create an atmospheric landscape with tempera on paper.
Hi! I recently finished rewriting my K-6 art curriculum plan. We are required to do this every 4 years. You can see my first blog post about organizing curriculum that I wrote a few years back. I use the curriculum plan as a guide for my yearly planning. If students are interested in one area of art more than another, I tend to adapt my plans. If I have a brilliant idea for something new I want to try with … Read more... →
Easy art lesson for Kindergarten through Fifth Grade.
This is a really quick little artwork. Credit for the artwork that inspired me goes to Sedef Yilmabasar . Its something I would use for w...
These landscape watercolor paintings inspired by Claude Monet and the Impressionists are sure to bring calm to your classroom ! When goin...
Integrate art and literacy with no prep or background knowledge with step by step tutorials for art history and art around the world!
A whole month of daily low-prep STEAM activities for kids. You are going to love all of the low-prep STEAM activities that we have in store!
