Styrofoam Weaving for 1st Grade
Weaving on styrofoam is really easy to do! There is a great restaurant supply store near my school where I can buy meat trays in bulk and have them last for years. 1. Cut slits on the edges of two…
Marcia
Marcia is an elementary art teacher and loves painting, drawing, sculpture, art journaling and clay. Her blog, Art is Basic, features many exciting art projects for kids.
Chinese Landscape Scroll Paintings for 3rd Grade
This 3rd grade lesson was related to the Chinese scroll paintings. I have taught this lovely project for several years and I know I saw a version of it online when I first started teaching it. I did some internet…
African Adinkra Carved Stamps & Art for AUCTION– 5th and 6th grade
My 5th and 6th grade students studied Africa and the African Adinkra stamped cloths. I showed them a slide show of images. Examples of Adinkra symbols were shown for inspiration. Check out my African Adinkra Pinterest board for handouts of…
Happy Easter!
Penguin Paintings with Kindergarteners
Greek Vase Chalk Drawings– 4th and 5th Grade
We are on Spring Break now, so I’m going to use this time to catch up on some blog posts! I have a lot of projects that are finished that I have started writing posts about. How about you? How…
On Teaching Art #3: Integrating Art with Other Subjects
Welcome to the 3rd post in my series On Teaching Art. The first post and the background behind this series is On Teaching Art: Art vs. Craft. The second post was On Teaching Art #2: Organizing Curriculum. The question posed…
Clay Bowls– 3rd and 4th grade
On Teaching Art #2: Organizing Curriculum
Welcome to the second post in my series On Teaching Art. The first post and the background behind this series is On Teaching Art: Art vs. Craft. The question posed for this installment is: How can we organize planning for…
On Teaching Art: Art vs. Craft
I received an email from Carrie Birmingham of Pepperdine University about teaching art. She teaches a general education course. She proposed a number of questions about teaching art that she would like to share with her university students. Here is…
Polar Bears and Snowmen
I was inspired by the polar bears at We Heart Art so I taught a painting project with my 2nd graders. The students could choose to paint either a polar bear or snowman with white paint. Hats, scarves, snow and…
Daria’s in my art journal
This is what happens every time I try to take out my art journal when Daria is awake! LOL. She never wants to color in her own sketchbook, just mine! We are both LOVING these new RoseArt Neon Gel Crayons,…
A Day in the Life of an Elementary Art Teacher
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an elementary art teacher? Maybe you are interested in becoming an art teacher. Maybe you are curious how my day compares to yours’. I know I would love to…
Studying African Masks: 3rd Grade
The 3rd graders studied Africa in their social studies classroom and we learned about African masks in art class. The students watched a video that explained about the functions of masks, celebrations, rituals and materials used to make the masks. …
State Art Show
There’s my student’s artwork in the upper right corner of this panel: the lion watercolor on muslin cloth. Every year our state has a state wide art show in the capitol in Madison. This weekend, I went with my…