Finished Pocket Pots

Here are a few of the final glazed pocket pots. Kids were in grades K-6. It was an afterschool class. For full directions, see earlier post about this project. Yay! I love them!

Here are a few of the final glazed pocket pots. Kids were in grades K-6. It was an afterschool class. For full directions, see earlier post about this project. Yay! I love them!

This was another good lesson I found on someone’s blog. Claim it if it was yours.. sorry can’t remember who. It was an old Halloween lesson.

Turkeys!I found this lesson on Mrs. Art Teacher’s blog: Thanks for the fun idea!! I don’t normally do crafty-type projects with my art classes, but these were so cute. At the beginning of the year, the kindergartners need a…

I am not a sewer, let’s just put that right out there. I think it is so fun though to use the sewing machine as a tool for collages. I just started doing it and wow, is it so much…

To connect with the Science, the Primaries are learning about how artists can use recycled and cast off materials to make art. We are watching a video about an artist who goes to the scrap and junkyard to find art…

This is a dreamcatcher ornament that will be sent to the Governor’s Mansion in our city for the Christmas tree. A group of kids in a 3rd/4th grade class made this.

Today I held an after school clay class for grades K-5. I had 11 kids sign up and we made pocket pots. These are so fun! After painting them, we will attach a wire to the top and they can…

The other post were pictures I took night. My brother and sister-in-law came over tonight and we played a game called Konexi and then had fun playing around with the letters. They were given this game as a gift by…


Collage with beeswax, raffia, paint, burlap, random flowers, paint markers, copper foil


The students learned how to identify realistic, abstract and non-objective art. The 3/4s worked on a non-objective graphite drawing. Using only shapes, lines, texture and value the students drew an interesting non-objective design. Non-objective art is art that has no…

Acrylic paint, watercolor paint, stencils, foam stamps, muslin fabric, fake leaf, spray paint The best part about being an art teacher? Being able to play around with art materials all day to test out new things! Does anyone know…

I have been busy making art. Most of it ends up being scrapbook type pages or random collages. I’m SO excited.. my sister-in-law gave me her old sewing machine that she never uses. It is a huge improvement on my…

The 5th/6th graders made fabric and fiber representations of microorganisms. This is a great tie-in to Science class. These are actually going to be displayed in a real art exhibition! To make a fiber microorganism, the 5/6s are cutting a…