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.

Valentine’s Projects

Children weaving colorful threads on a large cardboard loom in a classroom setting as part of their Valentine's projects.

 Both of these ideas I borrowed from other people’s recent blog posts.  You caught me red-handed!  I’ve gotten so many good ideas from other art teacher’s blogs.  Go ahead and check my blog roll on the side of my page…

Pipe Cleaner Weaving

A colorful pipe cleaner weaving of various yarns on a rectangular frame with a pinecone and holly design near the bottom.

  We made this with my first grade class.  I took mat board, and the kids stapled their own pipe cleaners to the ends and then weaved in yarn, ribbons and feathers.  The kids did a great job on their…

Pointillist Trees

A pointillist painting of people relaxing on a lawn near a river with trees; there are umbrellas and a black dog.

  The 3/4s painted Pointillist Trees.  They have studied trees in Science.  We learned about the artist Georges Seurat by reading Scholastic Art magazine.  Students identified and described Pointillist paintings.   They created a Pointillist painting of trees showing dimension…

Kindergarten Penguins

Handmade penguin figurine on paper with a drawn blue sky and fish, making it a delightful kindergarten project.

The kindergartners are studying penguins in their classroom, so we made penguins out of model magic modelling compound.  One trick to get the parts to stick better is to use just a bit of regular hand lotion on your hands…

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Crusade #47

A colorful journal page features red and green peppermint candy drawings with the words "under the tree," and "Christmas 2010.

Another challenge I recently discovered is Michelle Ward’s street team crusade.  There is a new technique every month and then you post your results.  This month the challenge is “It’s a Wrap”.  You are supposed to incorporate wrapping paper, tags…