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Text “Art is Basic” in watercolor style, with colorful markers and foam star stickers on the top left and bottom right corners, against a white background.
Colorful Art Journal pages with butterflies and flowers. Text: "Awaken in your own time," "Summer takes flight,"

Create a Summer Art Journal

Isn’t this graphic the cutest?!  I am part of an Art Ed Blogger’s Network which is a collective of writers…

  • June 12, 2018
  • all grades, Art Ed Blogger's Network, art journaling, art teacher tips, art teaching, summer
Summer Art Challenge 2018 poster featuring art supplies and a colorful landscape with sun rays and flowers.

Summer Art Challenge 2018

About 6 years ago I came up with the idea to do a Summer Art Challenge, based on the fun…

  • May 21, 2018
  • 1 Comment
  • all grades, art teacher tips, art teaching, summer
A silhouette mural of children and a dog painted on a school hallway wall, depicting various activities and a tree branch with a nest and chicks.

Nest & Chicks added to our Silhouette Mural

We made a few updates to our mural at school. We painted the original in 2015. This year, after some…

  • May 16, 2018
  • 1 Comment
  • all grades, collaborative artwork, mural, painting
Colorful mirror frame featuring a mosaic of painted, raised circles creating a vibrant, rainbow-like border effect.

Class Project for Auction: Clay Mosaic Mirrors

Every year my students and I create artworks for our school’s auction.  If you look here, you can see some…

  • April 30, 2018
  • 33 Comments
  • all grades, clay, collaborative artwork, mosaic
Kindness coloring pages cover with a coloring section featuring a turtle and the quote: 'Be kind to every kind, not just mankind.'

Kindness Coloring Pages: Free Sample Page!

Coloring for kindness!!  Kindness and character education are important topics in the classroom. Unleash the therapeutic benefits of zen-coloring for…

  • April 15, 2018
  • 3 Comments
  • all grades, coloring, Teachers Pay Teachers
Activities for Early Finishers" text on lined paper with doodles of stick figures and art supplies.

Ideas for Early Finishers in Art

This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early.…

  • April 10, 2018
  • 2 Comments
  • all grades, Art Ed Blogger's Network, art teacher tips, art teaching, free time activities
Two colorful, decorated cubes with drawings and patterns. One side features a goose, resembling the style of street artist Thank YouX.

Cube Mural Inspired by Street Artist Thank YouX

Earlier this year, my co-worker Jayne found the idea to make a collaborative school-wide paper mural based on the artwork…

  • April 8, 2018
  • 57 Comments
  • all grades, collaborative artwork, contemporary artists, group artwork, mural
Zen Painting workshop with step-by-step images to create calming patterns using pencil, water pen, and marker.

Zen Painting Workshop

I went to a really fun painting workshop last summer for a weekend which I never shared on my blog….…

  • March 27, 2018
  • all grades, contemporary artists, mixed media, painting, professional development, summer
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