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Mosaic Trees
Another idea found on Pinterest........ Loretta Grayson is the artist who inspired this lesson, I love her colorful art. See lots here and more info. about her here.The original on Pinterest were...
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Easter Art Time
Easter Break started for us on Friday!Our artwork celebrating the holiday. My favorites are the Easter Lily flowers drawn by the 2nd/3rd graders & even though everyone else thinks they're...
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Inky Monsters
You know those art lessons that you really want to do, but continually move it to the back burner because you're really nervous about trying it? (Or maybe it's just me?)The first time I saw Stefan...
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Jazzy Guitars Grades 5/6
Doing this lesson really helped the kids get the concept of rhythm and movement in art. Diagonal lines and shapes for "movement". Patterns and repetition for "rhythm". I repeated that over and over...
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Mother's Day Hearts
Thank you KristinatFor the Love of Artfor sharing this lesson. My 7th grade students had fun using it for their Mother's Day cards! Splatter paint is always a hit, and so fun for me to find another...
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Mother's Day Hands
Okay, how is it that I've been an art teacher for 9 years and this is the first time I've done an art lesson where the kids have to trace their hands? Hmmm? These cute Mother's Day cards were done by...
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Mother's Day Weavings!
I saw a Christmas ornament idea using embroidery thread and cardboard circles. I decided to use this idea for Mother's Day with my grades 5/6 students. I used cardboard hearts though instead of...
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Food Play....
"Sniffy" the mole.Friday was a "Play with Food" day. Kids enjoyed it, so did I!These were done by high school students. They loved looking through the book, Play With Your Food, by Joost Elffers.The...
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Summertime means ICE CREAM
I've been having fun doing ice cream art with my students..........My 2nd/3rd Grade combo class each did an acrylic ice cream painting, then I put them onto a blue painted canvas for our auction last...
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Being Foodies in the Art Room
Have you seen this book? It's very entertaining.My high school art students made their own versions of food "beings". It was fun:)
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Father's Day "Heart Books"
These Heart Books were made by 1st graders. (Note, I folded paper and drew half a heart on the fold for each child before the lesson because many of the 1st graders would have had a hard time drawing...
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Drippy Art
I've been wanting to do some type of "Pour Painting" ever seeing this video a while back. I've been hesitant because I wasn't sure about using so much paint for a project that might not turn out well,...
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Penguin Pots
Have you seen the cute little clay penguins floating around Pinterest?I made them with some of my summer students, and they turned out adorable:)We just made 2 pinch pots, then added wings and feet to...
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Summer Sea Turtle Art
My summer students made these sea turtles recently.I gave the kids rock that I'd already painted with white acrylic paint. Then they drew their turtles on the rocks with a pencil. Then dotted around...
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Robots
I used the How to Draw a Robot pages from Blue Tadpole Studio to give the students inspiration for their robot paintings. I never get tired of seeing the color combinations that kids choose for their...
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Pinwheels for PEACE
Yea, this year my school participated in Pinwheels for Peace!!!It was so worth the time and effort. Next year I'll need to figure out a better way to attach our large, laminated pinwheels to the...
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Colors & Shapes
Whew!!! Finally posting.......too many plates spinning these days, can you relate????My 2nd graders did this lesson last week. I thought it was successful and I love the clean simple aspect of the...
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Owls for fall.....
My 6th grade class did Owl Drawings last week. We used black construction paper and chalk pastels. Also, I decided to tape down the sides on a back board to keep the edges of the drawing clean. This...
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Fall Leaves
Oil pastels on black construction paper never fails to impress, don't you think?!For this lesson we practiced a few different types of leaf drawings on scratch paper. We also talked about...
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POSTERS for your classroom!
Posters for your classroom, created by your students!"Poster", "Poster with Theme", "MEGA Poster" I can't tell you how long I've been working on these POSTERS! Lots of glitches along the...
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