Making a fabric cone doll
I was playing around with how to make a fun art doll for 1st grade. You will need to get either parent volunteers or older helpers to hot glue. I am lucky to have a K-8 school where there is…
Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!
Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!
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.
String Balls
I have this cool idea to make a mobile out of string balls. It’s a project where you blow up a balloon, dip strings in glue and place around the balloon. When the glue dries, you pop the balloon and…
How I organize my paints
I know many people have different ways to organize painting days. I just pour the paints into little cups with lids. I get them fairly cheaply from a local restaurant supply store. The kids share the colors with the kids…
Bubble Prints!
After experimenting with several ways of doing bubble prints, I think I found a way that works well. I poured some kids bubbles into small containers. Then, I mixed a few drops of food coloring into the containers. The bubbles…
New School Year
Welcome back to a new school year! Clean Classroom Origami Hanging from Ceiling Conduct Contract taped to inside of sketchbook Decorating the sketchbook covers with our names
What to do with all of your kid’s art?
Here is a post that I am putting on my school class website for parents: Children are prolific artists. I have found some interesting ways to document your child’s art journey and display favorite works of art. 1. First, you…
Paintings from my watercolor class
I’ve been taking a watercolor class this summer, which has been very useful in learning new techniques and basically how to approach painting. Here are a few paintings that I made this summer: I think it will be useful especially…
Women Artists
I would like to introduce to you some of my favorite women artists. Molly, over at Her Speak, posted about some of her favorites. Without further introduction, here are some to get you thinking, exploring and looking. Shinique Smith Media: …
Old School Throwback!– with YOUR LINKS
Here is a an OLD lesson that I taught about 6 years ago at my previous school. I think these turned out lovely. These chalk drawings were inspired by the Pueblo dwellings of the Native Americans. We read about the…
Buried Treasure
Old School Throwback!– with YOUR LINKS
Here is one of my favorite little clay projects I have done. We made clay monsters. I taught this project about 5 years ago and I haven’t done it again. I think I will do it again this year. These…
Book Review 3
Today I am going to share with you some pages inside the book Parade, by Donald Crews. This book would be excellent to illustrate the idea of showing depth through overlapping. The colors and pictures are so much fun!
Art Teacher SHOWCASE!! Installment #5
Today I am featuring Karen Bosch on the 5th installment of the Art Teacher Showcase. 1) My name is Karen Bosch and my blog is Pixels and Paintbrushes: I also have a personal blog called Clever Karen which features…
New Stand Alone Page
I figured out how to make a stand-alone page for the art teacher directory! If you haven’t added your’s yet, you must! It needs to be an art teacher blog, however. I will delete it if it is something else. …
Clouds Watercolor Painting
I am taking a watercolor class this summer at the local recreation and parks department. Our first real painting assignment was to paint a picture of clouds. No, it couldn’t be just a white cloud on white paper. This…