Learn how to integrate art into your plant science activities by having students make chlorophyll paintings. Similar to leaf rubbings, this simple science based art project is a fun and creative extension for teaching kids about photosynthesis.
These landscape watercolor paintings inspired by Claude Monet and the Impressionists are sure to bring calm to your classroom ! When goin...
Halloween Painted Skeletons. This middle school art lesson is perfect for Halloween Art or Dio Los Muertos Art.
Road-scapes Grant Haffner Style.... Elementary and Middle School ArtMixed Media Road Trip Landscape Art Lesson, Grant Haffner styleI have been preparing art lessons for the next school year. Recently, I gave this lesson a test run... I taught it online to my art club students in Vancouver, BC. They are elementary students (ages 6-12) They enjoyed the introduction to one point perspective and learning about contemporary artist, Grant Haffner. Here you can see what they created in one hour. This a
Art Festival and Family Art Night- How to run a Family Art Night. Increase attendance and promote your art department with engaging art activities.
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In this “classic” Calvert project, sixth graders first learned about the history of tessellations (and artist M.C. Escher, who is famous for his unique tessellations like the one pictured here) before creating one of their own. Tessellations, which have been around for thousands of years, are a special kind of pattern/design made from repeating shapes called polygons (closed shapes with three or more sides). In tessellation designs, congruent polygons fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces that repeat again and again- they could go on forever! Students painted their unique tessellation designs using acrylic paint in a warm or cool color scheme of their choice. To create the portrait, on a separate piece of paper, students traced the light and dark areas of their faces using a projected digital photograph. Using the opposite color scheme from their background, they painted their portrait, making sure that the light and dark areas were highly contrasting. Here are the colorful finished pieces!
A blog about how a failed painting made me rethink the theories of composition in my painting of Donegal, Ireland.
Halloween Pastel Project: This is a Halloween Project we did in Art Class to prepare for Halloween. Materials: White Construction Paper Any 2 watercolors (Not Black or yellow) Paint Brush Water Yellow Pastel Black Pastel Pencil IMAGINATION
Download our free tree template that's perfect for making seasonal crafts for kids - or a whole four seasons craft!
Nōtan (濃淡?) is a Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark elements as they are placed next to the other in the composition of art and imagery. Positive/Negative Sp…
Learn how to paint starry night! This is an easy version of the famous painting in the style of a paint night type of painting. For beginners and kids!
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…
I did this project with my 8-13 year old kids around Halloween. We used thick and thin permanent black markers to draw and color the spooky houses. We were sure to make our houses look wonky with slanted sides and windows for that creepy, abandoned house feel. We went for variety in our windows, creating different sizes and styles, and added lots of little details on our roofs like spires, weather-vanes, cats, chimneys and spider webs. At the foreground we added graves, carved pumpkins, fences, etc. The sky, path and interior window lights were painted with liquid marker ink, which I saved from dried markers. Simply place your dried markers, uncapped and felt tip down, in a jar of water and let soak for a day - you will have beautiful marker ink that you can use for painting. The moon was simply drawn with round tracer and left unpainted, though you could paint it in with white acrylic paint. These turned out so beautifully spooky and with such great contrast. The marker ink has a way of cauliflowering when it dries on the paper, which creates interesting texture, and adds to the night-time, spooky feel.
Learn how to paint this colorful beetle with this simple and easy to follow art tutorial!
This project was sort of the low-rent version of something I saw on the Martha Stewart Show. Ok, not sort of. It is low rent. I don’t have a staff of 15 and a craft coordinator and a controll…
High School Art Projects that Students LOVE!
Michaelangelo is an incredible artist that children study at school or as part of a homeschool curriculum. We spent all our art lessons in the month of March this year...
Thank you Elmer’s for sponsoring this post. All opinions expressed are my own. Today we're experimenting with salt, glue, and watercolors to create some colorful ocean art. You'll only need a few materials to create
This is one of my FAVORITE art lessons for 2nd grade!! I LOVE each and every one of them!! (More info. and how they were created below! Plus a little virtual gallery walk video!) &nbs…
Print this FREE 10-page Summer Q Tip Painting set to enjoy this summer with the kids! This set includes a variety of summer sheets to paint.
Take a look at self portraits made by kids to get an idea of what they think of themselves, and their personality traits.
OCEAN WAVE ART LESSON can be used for grade K-8. Large or small painting surface, acrylic or tempera paints. Perfect for in class or studio art lesson.
Create the look of stained glass with bottle lids, kids' paint and wax paper. An easy, gorgeous art project for kids of all ages.
We are currently starting our final projects of the year. [I can't believe it!] But for now, let me catch you up on what we just finished... 5th and 4th grade have been working on the same concepts for the past two projects. Both grades participated in a school wide Egyptian art unit by creating Egyptian sarcophagi. They reviewed SYMMETRY, and learned about hieroglyphics. After that, they learned about creating TINTS and SHADES by making an undersea painting. You can find these handouts here- http://www.teachandshoot.com/2015/02/art-room-handouts-round-3-value.html I would have let the students have more freedom with other colors, but I really only had blue left, and underwater came to mind. Thanks for visiting! 3rd grade also participated in the Egyptian art unit by creating Egyptian PORTRAITS! This might be my favorite project from this year. What a wonderful job the students did! After that, 3rd grade made ORIGAMI frogs, but I forgot to take photos! After origami, 3rd grade started creating ASSEMBLAGE art like the artist Louise Nevelson. They are just starting to paint their sculptures this week! 2nd grade created a fun pyramid COLLAGE as part of the Egyptian art unit! After that, 2nd and 1st grade both created ABSTRACT Picasso PORTRAITS. 1st grade and kindergarten created Egyptian necklaces and learned a little bit about PERSPECTIVE by drawing the pyramids. Kindergarten just finished learning about weaving by creating some alligator WEAVINGs!
Negative Painting means that you paint around the areas you want to preserve; Think of it like carving stone, chipping away until only ...
Innovative creativity from PaperArtsy. Paint, stencils, and techniques galore for any mixed media enthusiast to enjoy.
Simon and I recently finished reading Charlotte’s Web together (meaning I read a bit of it to him every night before bed). We both really enjoyed it. My older
Painting on tin foil using cotton buds (Q tips) is an easy process art idea for kids. Foil painting is great for working on fine motor skills as well as colour mixing for toddlers and preschoolers. This art technique was inspired by Van Gogh's painting the starry night.
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I LOVE these flowers!!! I also think this may be my new favorite art lesson to teach! 2nd Graders did such a fabulous job creating them– SO proud of their work!! Step-by-step directions with…
How to Shoot Cinematic Interviews / 10 Steps Art Vocab Words from Phil Hansen The Elements of Art Videos Elements of Art: Line | KQED Arts Elements of Art: Color | KQED Arts Elements of Art: Space …
Our latest art project for kids is inspired by Elmer the Elephant! Kids will use sponges to stamp patterns and colors and then turn their artwork into an elephant! Follow our Art for Kids Pinterest board! We’re back again this week with our final post in the Preschool Book Club Series. This week’s book is Elmer by David McKee! After reading …
I was introduced to this lesson by Claire Kirk & Katie Flowers. Both amazing artists and art educators I have had the honor of knowing and working with over the years. From observational drawin…
Fizzy art is a fun process art activity for the kids that requires just a few basic supplies. This colorful STEAM project is low prep and engaging!
