Marcia

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.

Winter Collages

A vibrant blue background featuring an array of colorful paper snowflakes and other whimsical cut-out shapes scattered across it.

My posting is going to be limited for a little while.  I burnt four of my fingers on a hot glue gun yesterday and had to go to the urgent care.  Basically the glue dripped on four fingers on my…

African Cloth Painting– 3rd Grade

Child's colorful drawing of a green turtle with a brown shell and a red border, featuring yellow corner decorations, resembles an African Cloth Painting.

The Intermediates (grade 3) are studying Africa in their Social Studies class.  We learned about the African Korhogo Clothes.  See this link for more details. This project focused on how symbols are used in African art.  The students designed their…

Coloring Book

A coloring book with a vibrant, doodle-filled cover.

I just wanted to share with you this cool Doodlers Anonymous coloring book link.  I have a drawing that is going to be in the coloring book!  I can’t wait to see it.  (I haven’t been paid to promote the…