Triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights remains a mystery today. Many respected experts in late gothic iconography have tried to interpret it.
You can teach anything with children's picture books: Science. History. Writing. Math. Cooking. And Art. Especially art. Because picture books are an artform. I'll be writing a Five Day Series this week about connecting children's literature to art. Monday through Thursday I will be sharing four art project ideas inspired by children's picture books. On Friday I have …
This is one of my favorite projects for many reasons. One, they come out very unique and can push the creativity of individuals. Two, it involves many different skills and subjects making it a more…
From the 15th to 17th century, new forms of art, literature, music and architecture emerged across Europe. Read on to discover ten Renaissance masterpieces that stand out from the rest.
Celebrate Black History month with a colorful Jacob Lawrence art project for kids! Create narrative art with a few simple supplies.
Find creative and practical ideas for homeschooling families, especially when it comes to books! You'll find booklists, book club ideas, discussion tips, and more.
This simple painting lesson uses Leah Dorian's book The Giving Tree: A Retelling of a Métis Traditional Story and can easily connect to your Social Studies teachings about the Métis people of Canada. Students create a painting based on the style and theme of the book. This inspiring product includes: a complete lesson plan with step-by-step instructions with modifications to differentiate for your students (or your available supplies). photographs of student examples. instructions to minimize prep work and clean up. This project is included in our Indigenous Artists of Canada Inspired Art Projects. You might be interested in some of our other art projects: Plants Inspired Art Projects Artists of Canada Indigenous Artists in Canada Landscapes & Geography Light and Shadow Inspired Art Projects Winter Art Projects Upcycled Art Projects Halloween Art Projects * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FOLLOW US TO GET THE LATEST! Please let us know how this product works for you by rating it or providing comments. You'll get TpT credits to use toward future purchases. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What our customers have said about this product: ***Lovely resource. We need more like this! Please make more! (Thank you Tina A!) ***This is great! I had no trouble finding the book at our local public library and the projects look GREAT!! :) Thank you! (Thank you Imagine If!) Thank you for your consideration! Happy painting from the Brain Ninjas!
I have been fascinated by the caves at Lascaux, France, since I learned about them in one of my very first college art history classes. I wanted to see if my sons would find them equally fascinating. They did. Before we made our own "cave paintings," we read a great book that familiarized my sons with the discovery of the caves. The story is so appealing to kids because it was, in fact, some young boys that stumbled on these historic caves and discovered their paintings and engravings, which were made by some of the earliest humans. Art has a long rich history. Cave paintings show us its very origin. Our Artist Recreation Of course, we don't have a cave wall to use as our medium, so I grabbed a roll of brown packaging paper (like what you'd wrap a package in to mail) that was collecting dust in our basement. I cut a large piece. I crinkled it to give it more of a stone effect and swiped on a few areas of brown and white acrylic paint in an attempt to replicate the look of cave walls. Then my sons used taupe, brown, black, and white oil pastels and some stencils I'd made. To make your own stencils, print my free template onto office paper, overlay sheets of transparency paper (think thick clear report covers), and using an exacto craft knife, carefully cut away the animals shapes. The boys were able to position the stencils anywhere they chose and even flip them to make the mirror image for variety. Holding the stencil steady (and tightly), they ran the oil pastel along the inner edge of the stencil to make an outline of a bull, deer and her fawn, bird, and human hunter (complete with bow and arrow). This required patience and determination for our 5-year-old, but since the real paintings didn't have crisp lines, even his wavering hand seemed to add to the authenticity. When we were done, he told me all about what our "cave painting" was illustrating! More Books In the evening, the boys read two other great books to extend the learning even further. My husband read The First Drawing to our 5-year-old. It is a wildly imaginative tale of a child who invented art by drawing in caves. It starts "Imagine ... you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago." This makes the cave painters very relatable to kids! My 9-year-old read Discovery in the Cave on his own. While the reading level was much lower than he's used to, he was fascinated by the small maps that detailed all of the different areas in the caves of Lascaux. It contained enough unique information from the book we read before our art activity to keep him interested.
I'm a little addicted to timelines. I love them. I think they help students visual the story of history. I know they help me. Our most recent story: The American Revolution It takes us from the French and Indian War to the Treaty of Paris. It's an exciting story filled with heroes and battles. And now it's on our wall. I used twine strung between small finishing nails and mini clothes pin to make our timeline. Each card has the name of an integral person or event from the Revolutionary War. There's room on the back for students to write how the person/event impacted the war. We also shaded the Colonial people and victories blue and the British ones red. There are 48 cards in the set. They can be used individually as trading cards or put together in a flip book like this... I punched a single hole in the bottom right hand corner and attached them with a brad. They could also be stapled. Each card comes in three sizes and the set includes blank cards so you can add any person or event not included. If these cards would be a help in your classroom or homeschool, you can find them here. A Civil War set is also available here.
Today, we continue our Exploring Art History with Preschoolers series, sharing the first preschool reproduction using one of the masters’ techniques: Matisse Cutouts! Painting with Scissors – Exploring Matisse Cutouts This represents a number of firsts for us: the first Kids Activity in our Exploring Art History with Preschoolers series…
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Lesson idea from Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue! 3rd graders started a conversation about what textile arts are by reading the book "Tar Beach" by author and artist Faith Ringgold. We talked about how the book and its illustrations were actually inspired by a story quilt that Ringgold created (the original work is pictured in the back of the book I had). The story in the book brought up the themes of both inequality (which works well since February is Black History Month) and imagination. The book's main character 3rd grader Cassie Louise Lightfoot discovers she has the ability to fly and in doing so, finds a sense of power and ownership over whatever she flies. She flies over the George Washington Bridge (a structure her father helped to build), an ice cream factory, and the Union Building (a building which housed an organization her father was not allowed to join because of his skin color). After reading and discussing the themes in the book, I asked my 3rd graders "Where would you go if you could fly (real or imaginary) and why?" This question was the inspiration for our very own patches on our 3rd grade story quilt. Students created their own "story patches" by creating a border using squares of 1.5"x1.5" decorative paper along the edge of a 12" x 12" piece of white drawing paper. Students then attached a strip of grey paper to the bottom of their picture squares and wrote about where they would go and why. Then in the remaining space, they used colored pencils to illustrate their ideas. I got a huge range of responses from Candyland (naturally to eat a ton of candy), to Columbia (to visit friends and family), to the Twin Towers in New York City (which prompted an entirely difference conversation). Students really enjoyed working on this project (which took between 4-5 class periods -- including one day for sketching ideas). I really love the finished product - and even more so when they are all hung together to make a giant story quilt! :)
Lesson idea from Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue! 3rd graders started a conversation about what textile arts are by reading the book "Tar Beach" by author and artist Faith Ringgold. We talked about how the book and its illustrations were actually inspired by a story quilt that Ringgold created (the original work is pictured in the back of the book I had). The story in the book brought up the themes of both inequality (which works well since February is Black History Month) and imagination. The book's main character 3rd grader Cassie Louise Lightfoot discovers she has the ability to fly and in doing so, finds a sense of power and ownership over whatever she flies. She flies over the George Washington Bridge (a structure her father helped to build), an ice cream factory, and the Union Building (a building which housed an organization her father was not allowed to join because of his skin color). After reading and discussing the themes in the book, I asked my 3rd graders "Where would you go if you could fly (real or imaginary) and why?" This question was the inspiration for our very own patches on our 3rd grade story quilt. Students created their own "story patches" by creating a border using squares of 1.5"x1.5" decorative paper along the edge of a 12" x 12" piece of white drawing paper. Students then attached a strip of grey paper to the bottom of their picture squares and wrote about where they would go and why. Then in the remaining space, they used colored pencils to illustrate their ideas. I got a huge range of responses from Candyland (naturally to eat a ton of candy), to Columbia (to visit friends and family), to the Twin Towers in New York City (which prompted an entirely difference conversation). Students really enjoyed working on this project (which took between 4-5 class periods -- including one day for sketching ideas). I really love the finished product - and even more so when they are all hung together to make a giant story quilt! :)
Printable totem pole templates provide an engaging way to introduce you or your students to the rich cultural history and artistry of Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
I formulated this lesson after seeing Mrs. Sturgill teach something like it at the Frist one summer. We read the story "Roberto the Insect Architect" to inspire us to "Be Creative!" The students created blueprints and designed a house or building for a bug! After they painted their drawings blue, they sculpted their 'bug' out of model magic. Once those dry, we'll add bright colors. Here's that worksheet about Architectural Details...I found it in a green book called Art Starters? (I think.)
Enjoy homeschool art appreciation with famous artists! Our Horace Pippin homeschool lesson with art is great for any age.
Bring history to life for middle school students with hands-on American Revolution activities. These are a fun way to add writing and art into history studies.
Find creative and practical ideas for homeschooling families, especially when it comes to books! You'll find booklists, book club ideas, discussion tips, and more.
Such a perfect angle to look at things.
Behold the magic of the elementary art classroom. This blog is intended as a venue for parents and students to check out what is going on in the art room at Thomas Elementary. Also, possibly more importantly, it is a place for other educators to find free art lesson plans and share ideas. Art, art education, art classroom, bottle cap, mural, elementary art blog, painting, ceramics, fun, awesome, interesting.
Cubing is a technique used by teachers around the country. It can help prepare students for reading or writing activities by having them think about a specific topic on six levels of cognition. It …
When you think of a guillotine, your mind usually pictures a medieval setting with a castle, a crowd of peasants and villagers ready for a spectacle.
This week we're celebrating art! We've got free art lessons, notebooking pages, lesson plans, art history, and even sensory recipes related to art! We also
Queen Elizabeth I gave her name to an era. Your young student can read about Elizabeth's life in this biography worksheet.
This Famous Artist Lapbook features ~ Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Lodovico, Raffael Sanzio da Urbino, Sandro Botticelli, Anthony van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goy…
Philip and the Ethiopian activity to accompany the story in Acts 8, full instructions and downloadable templates. Part of a whole lesson onsite.
The name of Mary Anning has been virtually erased from the history of science, despite the fact that this industrious woman made a fundamentally important
Pin this post BEST History YouTube Channels for Kids! I'm always searching for ways to supplement my kids' education. One of the most amazing aspects of teaching them is that I'm always learning! I get excited when we find material to enjoy together. History is one of those subjects that our family is very passionate about and that we can't get enough of. Fortunately for us, there are channels on YouTube with dedicated historians and educators, creating incredible content for us to enjoy, all a few clicks away! Disclaimer Some of these channels contain strictly history-based content, and some of
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