Fun and easy art activities for kids. Learn about famous artists and be inspired to create your own masterpieces with our step by step guide.
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Hey, friends! We are currently up to our elbows in chalk projects in my art room and it got me thinking...I should share my Top 12 Chalk Pastel Projects with y'all AND my tips and tricks. I steered clear of chalk for the longest time because of the mess; the lack of understanding how to set the stuff and because the chalk I had on hand for my kids was, well, crap. So I'm gonna debunk all of this chalk nonsense and hopefully help you get excited to bring this beautiful and vibrant medium into your art room. In this post, I'll share my fave projects but if you want even more details, check out this podcast episode: Sandra Silberzweig Inspired Abstract Portraits I don't often repeat lessons, but this one is a hit year after year. Follow the link to a video that you can share in your art room. Symmetrical Butterfly Project with Second Grade This lesson includes a video! It was a fun project that I did with my second graders and each one was a beauty. Claire West Inspired Landscapes with Chalk and Liquid Starch If you've never used liquid starch with chalk before, oh boy, y'all are in for a treat! This hack is magical and I cannot wait for you to give it a go. More details in this blog post. Faux Stained Glass Project We did this a few years back and the results were so striking! You can find more details here. Sandra Silberzweig Inspired Fish! I love Sandra Silberzweig and her work as do my students. Anytime I can share her with the kids, you better believe I'm gonna. This project did just that. Video included! Crayon Chalk Collaborative Working together, my students created these large pieces that were so fab. You can see all the details here. Fourth Grade Fauve Portraits This project uses the chalk and liquid starch trick and the results are so vibrant. More details here. Desert Landscapes with Third Grade Stencils and chalk go so well together. More details on this fun lesson here. Floating Chalk Prints! Behold! This is the coolest thing you can do with chalk. Don't believe me? Check this link! James Russo Inspired Animals with Chalk and Oil Pastel We're the tigers at my school so this project was just perfect. More here. Glennray Tutor Inspired Marble Project This one was fun and had the kids so excited to work in the third dimension! Annual Ceiling Tile Legacy Project! This is a massive undertaking I do every year with second-grade students. They create chalked ceiling tiles that are then placed in the ceiling permanently. How fun is that? More here.
James Rizzi is a American Pop Artist, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His neighborhood of tall buildings, busy streets, taxi cabs etc, can be seen in many of his colorful paintings. …
Looking for a fun James Rizzi cityscape art project? Here's one that uses mixed media & a fun twist with markers. Did I mention there's a roll a dice game?
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Thi Jean-Michel Basquiat art history lesson introduces elementary-aged kids to the colorful world of New York art with a project-based lesson plan.
These all about me, back to school art activities for kids are engaging icebreakers. Encourage creativity and build community during the first week back
Printmaking is magical for kids and adults as well. The process of creating an image then transferring that image to another piece of paper is so exciting. There are so many different ways to print…
This year my school adopted a new schedule. Now, instead of seeing my classes daily for 47 minutes, each day we drop one period. In addition, each class has one weekly “long block” that is 68 minut…
Art Lessons For Kids By Artist This is a directory where I keep links to all of my Art lessons sorted by artist. Through the Charlotte Mason method, we study 3 artists and 3 composers
NEW for 2020! 5 kid-friendly art activities for ages 5-10 years in a downloadable 44-page PDF ebook format. Featuring an art history lesson about the life and art of Contemporary Japanese POP Artist, Yayoi Kusama . This PDF contains supply lists, estimated lesson times, and detailed step-by-step
The kids and I loved doing this project. First of all, I love combining collage with painting and drawing, and I love big bustling cities. Secondly, this project was an opportunity for my students to visually communicate where they, or their families, comes from. Always big points for personalizing art. The New York artist, Elizabeth Rosen, was the inspired for this project. See her work here. Elizabeth Rosen Objectives were: creating a layered cityscape using various collage and book papers; overlapping buildings; variety in text, color and shape; balance and harmony; perspective (smaller and higher in back, bigger and lower at bottom); and creating depth with charcoal sticks, which we smudged with our fingers. We added personalized symbols which represent our home city of choice. We began by painting our sky in an opaque color. We only painted half way down, because we knew that our collage papers would cover the bottom up to middle portion (saving on time and paint is always good!) We then cut out various collage papers in simplified building shapes and were mindful of varying our shapes and sizes of our building, as well as choosing papers with different fonts, coloration and design, so as to achieve a well balanced and dynamic cityscape. We arranged and then glued, starting at the back of the city and moving down, so that those in front overlap those in back. We then drew symbols, signs or other indicators of the city we were representing (a shopping mall in Dubai, the City Hall in Zagreb, building top water tanks, yellow cabs and a bagel shop in New York, a church and clocktower in Prague are a few examples the kids came up with the identify their city). We cut these out and pasted them on our buildings. Lastly, we used soft vine charcoal to run a black line along the edge of all our buildings, and then smudged lightly with our fingers. This gives immediate and stunning depth and 3-dimension to our city. Represented in the below collages are Berlin, Prague, Milano, NYC, Minneapolis, and an invented city. Kids 7-9. Kids 7-9 Represent in the below collages are Dubai, Budapest, New York, an imaginary city, Zagreb and a Chinese city. Kids 7-11
Whether you have dreams of singing in front of a crowd or just want to hone a new skill, here is a step-by-step guide on how to sing for beginners.
In the context of art education, Surrealist games can be a useful tool to disinhibit students and unlock their creativity.More so, they are a valuable component of any open-ended art exploration and a wonderful addition to project-based curriculums.
Teach children art history through a variety of fun art projects and lessons. We love using artists as inspiration for our own creations.
Scribble monsters are a favorite in my adapted art class! If you follow me on Instagram you probably know that I am absolutely head over heels in love with teaching adapted art! I love teaching and creating lessons that meet the individual needs of my students in order to provide them with their own authentic, enrichin
Here’s a fun Mona Lisa art project, starting with her very famous face and then filling in your own background with lines, just for contrast.
Here at Hodgepodge we are passionate about reminding you that You ARE an Artist! And in doing so, Nana and Tricia have shared more than 100 Free Art Lessons for All Ages! Seasonal, fun, favorite characters, nature studies, astronomy and more. Just add chalk pastels and paper! You ARE an Artist!
Your new source for art history related coloring pages. Famous artists and art movements included. Grab your own printable PDF.
Summer is a season of sunshine, warmth, and relaxation. It's also a great time to capture your own image through self-portraiture. Whether your students are in kindergarten through 5th grade, drawing a self-portrait can be a fun and rewarding way for students to express themselves and document their unique features. In this fun and easy drawing guide students will draw themselves living their best summer lives!
I made these dinosaurs with Kindergarten, but this lesson is a very engaging lesson that could be used for any elementary grade! The first page of this download is of the Basquiat-style dinosaur handout that I used with students to draw the dinosaur inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting "Pez D...
Use this collection of Paul Klee teaching resources and complete Klee Famous Artist Unit lesson plans to teach elementary art class.
Fun Art Lessons for the First Day of School. 12 ideas to choose from to make students first art lesson fun and memorable.
Looking for a fun James Rizzi cityscape art project? Here's one that uses mixed media & a fun twist with markers. Did I mention there's a roll a dice game?
Happy Fall! I don’t know about you, but for me, at this time in the year, the back to school rush of adrenaline has worn off. Students have settled into their classes, behaviors start to escalate and as an art teacher, you’re just plain worn out. But after classes are done for the day, you have to attend to all of the cleaning, organizing, school duties, meetings lesson planning & prepping for the next day. . Art teachers are really AMAZING. The amount of work you do on a daily basis is unreal a
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Have your students demonstrate their understanding of many different math concepts while designing a map of their own town! This hands-on math activity is a project that will definitely engage your students. File Type PDF
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These all about me, back to school art activities for kids are engaging icebreakers. Encourage creativity and build community during the first week back
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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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These all about me, back to school art activities for kids are engaging icebreakers. Encourage creativity and build community during the first week back
Roy Lichtenstein name art, featuring Ben-Day dots
It's 6:00 in the morning and something has come up! You have to call off work. The stress starts mounting.... what are my students going to work on today?! What easy materials can I have them use?! How will the sub know what to deliver?! Ahh! Hath no fear! Below are 10 straightforward, ready-made sub
