Artolazzi: Aboriginal Dot Art

Artolazzi: Aboriginal Dot Art: In Art class, we have been studying Australia and aboriginal artwork. Aboriginals were the first people to live in Australia. 5th graders c...

we heart art: organic shape MONSTERS!

we heart art: organic shape MONSTERS!: This is a great lesson I do every year with my Kindergartners and I never get tired of it! It is a great lesson to teach about geometric-vs...

Mrs. Erb's Art Page: Line

Mrs. Erb's Art Page: Line:  abstract art inspired by Paul Klee  First grade students learned about the art element of line and about artist Paul Klee. First grad...

Mrs. Erb's Art Page: Drawing 3-D shapes

Mrs. Erb's Art Page: Drawing 3-D shapes: Second Graders at Birch Meadow are learning how to draw 3-D shapes. Today we focused on how to draw the shapes and to make them look like...

ARTASTIC! Miss Oetken's Artists: Arcimboldo Self Portraits

ARTASTIC! Miss Oetken's Artists: Arcimboldo Self Portraits: We looked at the very famous vegetable and fruit portraits of Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo! We pointed out all ...

Stuck in the Mud Pottery: Christmas Carolers

Stuck in the Mud Pottery: Christmas Carolers: I saw this lesson over at ArtClassWorks and knew I had to do it!! Every year the middle school students at our small public school go C...

Stuck in the Mud Pottery: Winter Trees

Stuck in the Mud Pottery: Winter Trees: Pre-K students created Winter Trees! Materials White Drawing Paper White Crayon Blue Watercolor Paint Green Tissue Paper Glue S...

Fine Lines: Watercolor Practice Puzzle

Fine Lines: Watercolor Practice Puzzle: Last year my students loved a set of cardboard quilting squares that could be assembled in a variety of ways to create different "quilt" top...

Panther's Palette: Life Skills: Spring Flower Collages

Panther's Palette: Life Skills: Spring Flower Collages: My life skills group made these bright spring flowers! First, we glued mosaic squares around the paper to create a colorful border....

Happily Ever After...An Art Teacher's Fairy Teal: Fall Printmaking

Happily Ever After...An Art Teacher's Fairy Teal: Fall Printmaking: First grade students used printmaking techniques to create these beautiful fall leaf prints. We applied white and silver paint to the leave...

Art is Basic: Kindergarten Apple Trees

Art is Basic: Kindergarten Apple Trees: An apple explosion! Apple Tree Painting Step One: Pass out watercolor paper to kindergartners. Step Two: Write name on back! Step Thre...

Splish Splash Splatter: ABC I Like Me!

Splish Splash Splatter: ABC I Like Me!: After reading this book by Nancy Carlson, students created self-portraits. I walked them through a step-by-step demonstration of drawing a ...

Chesterbrook Academy Elementary School, Raleigh, NC: (PS) Exploring lines

Chesterbrook Academy Elementary School, Raleigh, NC: (PS) Exploring lines: The objective of this lesson was for our little friends to learn about the variety of lines. I drew a variety of lines on the board and aske...

B Art Z- Elementary Art: Thankgoodness for Pumpkin Pie!

B Art Z- Elementary Art: Thankgoodness for Pumpkin Pie!: I love, love, love this kindergarten project. I started doing it three years ago and I do it every year. One reason I love it is it has ci...

Art is Basic: What can you do with a dot?

Art is Basic: What can you do with a dot?: What is art? What materials can be used to create art? How do we properly use art materials? These are the questions that the Nest (gr...

Fairy Dust Teaching: Turtle Art

Fairy Dust Teaching: Turtle Art: This is so easy and turns out so lovely. It is a guided drawing using white oil pastels and then painted with tempera paints. The last ste...

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: One Project Down, Many more to go... Under the Sea...

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: One Project Down, Many more to go...
Under the Sea...: One Project Down, Many more to go... Under the Sea First project the kids did for the year was aimed to please the parents with our annual...

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: Monsters

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: Monsters: My K-1 kids were getting a little antsy and needed a meaningful quick project. This two day project painting monsters came after reading a ...

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: Picasso took over the Art room!!

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: Picasso took over the Art room!!: All of my students created a Picasso inspired project this semester. K-1 students created Picasso's Flowers, by tracing their hands and ...

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: K/1 3D Lines

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: K/1 3D Lines: All year we have talked about LINES!!! you can draw them a million times but some kids (like me) need to do something more hands on to trul...

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: K/1 3D Lines

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: K/1 3D Lines: All year we have talked about LINES!!! you can draw them a million times but some kids (like me) need to do something more hands on to trul...

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: Paul Klee Meets MJ

Brightest Crayon in the Box!!!: Paul Klee Meets MJ: For this 2/3rd grade Project we were inspired by the work of Artist Paul Klee, and in a way the music of Michael Jackson. The students fir...

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY ART: 1st Grade-Owl Moon

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY ART: 1st Grade-Owl Moon: The 1st Grade students created artworks based on the book, "Owl Moon" by Jane Yolen and John Schoenherr. They worked on creating a collaged...

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY ART: 2nd Grade-Jasper Johns Number Quilt

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY ART: 2nd Grade-Jasper Johns Number Quilt: The 2nd Grade students created a brilliant numeric artwork through the study of Jasper Johns. We looked at examples of Johns' work and noti...

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY ART: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY ART: The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Taking inspiration from Eric Carle, the 1st Grade classes have created giant caterpillars that are climbing on the walls. I like to begin...

Art Project Girl: Easy Project You Can Do Tomorrow: Crazy Color Whee...

Art Project Girl: Easy Project You Can Do Tomorrow: Crazy Color Whee...: I know we've all agreed (most of us anyways) that Kindergarten is one of the toughest grades to make good lessons for. This was a hit. For b...

Art Project Girl: Monarch Lifecycle Illustrations

Art Project Girl: Monarch Lifecycle Illustrations: This is for MJ who couldn't wait to see the lifecycle part of the project (see how to make the monarch prints in previous post.) I can't wai...

Art Project Girl: Easy Project You Can Do Tomorrow: Monarch Prints

Art Project Girl: Easy Project You Can Do Tomorrow: Monarch Prints: This project I guarantee will get you some ooooohs and ahhhhhs from your first grade artists and some squeals of excitement when they make t...

Art Project Girl: Easy Project You Can Do Tomorrow: Line Fish

Art Project Girl: Easy Project You Can Do Tomorrow: Line Fish: I found an old art book in my room with a picture of this. . . Example from old art text book. I had to try it with my "extra" 1/2 hou...

Chumley/Scobey Art Room: 2nd Grade: Morris Louis"Drips"

Chumley/Scobey Art Room: 2nd Grade: Morris Louis"Drips": Well, I decided to do this at the last minute today because I keep getting bored! Anyway, we looked at the Color Field painter, Louis Morri...

Chumley/Scobey Art Room: A Rainbow of Faces

Chumley/Scobey Art Room: A Rainbow of Faces: Monochromatic S e l f - P o r t r a i t s ! For our first project, I've decided to test the waters and do a pre-assessment project with a ...

Clutter-Free Classroom: Listening Look - classroom management series

Clutter-Free Classroom: Listening Look - classroom management series: This post is part of my Classroom Management Series. Click h ere to read other posts from the series.
Listening Look At the start of the...

Field Elementary Art Blog!: 1st Grade Suns with Personality

Field Elementary Art Blog!: 1st Grade Suns with Personality: First grade artists enjoyed learning that different cultures sometimes have different kinds of folk tales. We talked a little bit...

Field Elementary Art Blog!: Ugly Bugs

Field Elementary Art Blog!: Ugly Bugs: To start these "ugly bugs", the kindergartners first listened to the story The Very Ugly Bug by Liz Pichon . In the book, an "ugly"...

Field Elementary Art Blog!: Alexander Calder Inspired Circus Animal Sculptures...

Field Elementary Art Blog!: Alexander Calder Inspired Circus Animal Sculptures...: Our second grade artists just completed a unit about American sculptor Alexander Calder's Circus. Before introducing the lesson to the...