Second grade students sure had fun making their aliens with marker and pastel. We talked about different shapes for their bodies, different...
4th graders loved creating these illusions. I demonstrated how to use the 3 primary colors to create secondary colors. We started with a 9 x 12 piece of white paper. They chose a primary color for …
My Grade 4 - 6 class recently finished these colourful portraits using Sharpies and bleeding tissue paper. I was inspired by THIS project t...
Easy Halloween handprints that are the perfect Halloween card craft for kids. A handprint frankenstein, pumpkin, ghost and vampire tutorial included!
Get ready to be dazzled making wet-on-wet watercolor planets! These are quick, simple, and absolute stunners every time.
We made farms, colorful farms, crazy farms with rivers running through them - complete with bridges, and ponds, and bunnies... Well, best just to show you. We started with stamped rectangles, 5 paint chips and a river... then we added texture on each square with stamps dipped in paint, stamps in ink, watercolor dots, zig zags and swimming fish... and bridges connecting the colorful islands over the river teaming with fish... and houses made of paint chips... and happy rabbits jumping in the trees... and smelling the roses... and happy bushes... and happy students... and a happy teacher... ahh what a perfect little world... Here was the original that I made using a monochromatic scheme, but of course their dynamic colors look oh so young and imaginative! The goal was to experiment with layers and different media and to keep going until it seemed just right. We analyzed the pieces as we worked and persevered until the art finally seemed happy. FYI remember the giveaway on the blog right below here - The fur balls will choose Tuesday! I am loving all the comments with the definition of 'crafty'. Check them out to be inspired.
From the Blogger: "When October arrives kids (or even the whole family) can spend an afternoon making this mosaic paper Jack o' Lantern. It is a great project for the fine motor skills and will keep everyone busy for a while. Once finished, it is a spooky one of a kind wall art to hang as a Halloween decoration for the room. The pumpkin shape on the website can be printed out. Black cardstock, construction paper in shades of orange and green, scissors, two sequins, and glue will be needed."
The origins of this art lesson came from a pin that I found on Pinterest connecting to the blog B Art Z - Elementary Art. I have been SO excited to blog about my new and improved cup weaving lesson! So last year I attempted to do cup weaving with my some of my students.. and while I loved the results.. the process was infuriating! For some reason I thought it was a great idea to weave with plastic cups - which made sharp jagged edges when cut by children. When that didn't go smoothly I thought myself sooooo clever to switch to styrofoam cups - which ended up making spokes (warp strips) that snapped off when pulled on to much. FINALLY I figured it out - PAPER CUPS!! These work PERFECTLY!! It is easy for the kids to cut the strips themselves AND they are surprisingly very durable. **Get them in bulk here! The first thing I had my kids do was write their name on the bottom of their cup with a sharpie. Then they placed their upside-down cup onto a template I created and made a tick mark on the rim of the cup everywhere where they saw a triangle poking out - this gave them evenly spaced points to cut from. When cutting out the spokes/warp strips, it is extremely important to remember to cut out an odd number of strips so that when you are weaving your AB pattern, the pattern alternates each consecutive time around. I found that with the 9oz cups my kids were using, 9 strips turned out to be the perfect number. Once the strips were cut, students double-knotted a piece of yarn to one of the strips, then began weaving! This particular class worked for 5 days straight on this (they really are a wonderful group).. and I had a few students who even completed 3 very well done cups in this amount of time (a couple even got pulled for our county art show)! :)
April is the perfect month to discuss rain with your students.Here are a few simple ideas that can be easily added to any lesson plan. Science Make Your Own Rain Make your own rain with this simple experiment. This experiment demonstrates what happens in the clouds during the water cycle. When a cloud accumulates too many water […]
These fall art projects showcase the best the season has to offer. These simple fall crafts use simeple materials to take advantage of nature's beauty!
I adapted this pirate ship project for two age-groups. The younger class ranges from almost-three to just-turned-four, and the older class comprises four to six year olds, plus one eight year old. …
Explore the magical properties of watercolor paint with these easy snowflake watercolor & salt paintings. Kids love this fun winter art idea!
Hattifant Kaleidocycles - such a fun paper toy to color, craft and play with. Also called Flextangle, its a papercraft free to download.
Who is ready to make some Halloween torn paper art? We have some wonderful collage art ideas to share with you to get you inspired for a fun filled Halloween creative crafting session. *this post
Well this is another great pinterest finds and also a spin on one point perspective. We did the drawing in pencil. Then outline in sharpie. It keep my 5th graders guessing what it was going to be until we painted all blue. Some of the figured it out. Then we draw sea life and colored that in with color pencil and glued them on. It was something different then the city. Well like I said I found this on pinterest, but here is the link from where it really came from. http://www.onceuponanartroom.com/ Thanks so much Chani for the great project
Am I the only one who is ready for this Winter to be over? Spring Break is right around the corner and we still have freezing temperatures ...
This was a paper collage lesson I did with my Grade 4,5,6 students for our last project in June. It's that chaotic last week when some students are missing, they're hyper, I'm tired, so us teachers need a simple yet engaging art project to get us through the last days. So this project only needs scrap colored paper, scissors and glue sticks. I keep a big box in my room where kids put any leftover pieces of paper we use in projects. It fills up FAST yet I still find it difficult to purge this crazy box of scrap paper, lol So I asked students to choose a colour scheme and then simply cut out organic shapes and try to really fill their paper with lots of shapes. Once everything was glued down, they had the option of adding some lines with markers. I didn't get many pics of finished pieces but hopefully you can get the idea.
This lesson combines many techniques: drawing, cutting and shaping with paper, painting waves and composition. I chose to do this lesson with an upper grade class but it’s suitable for much younger children as well. Supplies: Brown, black, white and gray construction paper (I cut the white, black and gray paper in 4″ x 6″
One of my favorite Halloween crafts for kids when I was a classroom teacher was this jack-o-lantern paper craft using the art technique of positive and negative space. It’s a simple Halloween project to prep and always ends up looking so stunning! Follow our Halloween for Kids Pinterest board! This Halloween craft is so much fun, and …
These marbled Christmas trees are really pretty, and they’re SO EASY to make! Simply press cardstock trees into shaving cream and swirled paint to create this festive Christmas tree craft. These paint swirled paper trees make awesome Christmas decorations on their own, but they also look great turned into a DIY ornament or attached to a homemade Christmas card. They're so cheerful! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which helps us run this website. How to Make Marbled Christmas Trees These marbled Christmas trees are so pretty
A torn paper Spring Flower art project for kids.
We love glue resist art projects, one of our favourites was the watercolor leaf garland we made last Autumn and this year we decided to ...
Getting ready to make masks in art class? Start with this worksheet - students get their hand at 6 different masks. Included on top are some examples and an explanation of what Polynesian/Hawaiian masks are.***********************************************************************Hope Creek Studios spe...
Canvas is a learning management software that allows each student to access material and submit assignments. Read more tips and tricks here!
An elementary art teacher blog with art projects and lessons, DIY projects and outfit photos as well as clothing I have made myself.
Check out these 20+ pirate activities for kids. Toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners will love these pirate themed play ideas.
We're having a scrap art pool party, and YOU'RE invited! Don't you want to just dive right into our vibrant pool art?! This summer art project is full of simple visual art tricks that make
Get creative on rainy days and snow days with this HUGE list of winter art projects and winter painting ideas for kids and adults!
We're having a scrap art pool party, and YOU'RE invited! Don't you want to just dive right into our vibrant pool art?! This summer art project is full of simple visual art tricks that make
