Does anyone else look at their stats and become confused by them? One of my pages, the Clay Viking Ship lesson was viewed about 800 more times than any of the other lesson plan pages. I didn’t realize clay viking ships were so popular! 🙂 Of course, the blog directory was a big hit, receiving the most page views.
I’m at 185 followers now! So exciting. Anyways, once I reach 200, I’m going to do a book giveaway. This summer I need to have a garage sale and sort through all my books on my book shelf. I, of course, have oodles of art books to get rid of, so I think I will offer a couple of them up here for a random follower! Please also sign up for my ART TEACHER SHOWCASE. Just send me info about … Read more…
So it’s summer time! I’ll still try to post a bit here and there. What are my plans? 1. I’m doing a mini art camp next Monday and Tuesday for 2 1/2 hours each day at school. I have 10 kids signed up! I will post pics of some of our art work. I have a TON of fun stuff planned. It’s going to be focused more on personal expression and creativity and the kids will have choices. I think … Read more…
This is a worksheet from Carla Sonheim’s Art of Silliness class. I recommend this class, it’s very fun. The worksheets she sends you each day are very unique drawing activities. What I am doing with these is photocopying them for kids in my class to work on when they are finished with their regular art projects. (She allows photocopying for classroom use in schools, which is awesome!) Some of the kids did a drawing exercise on Friday in class where … Read more…
Hey! I received a Versatile Blogger Award from Katie Morris, Adventures of an Art TeacherThanks for this award! I know these awards go around the blogs and it is a really great way for people to connect and find new blogs. Here are 7 crazy, exciting things about myself: I’ll try to add some different things besides the usual. Daria and I at church on Easter One of my watercolors 1. This will be my 9th year teaching art, my … Read more…
Everybody loves to paint! This is Daria, my 18 month old baby girl.
It’s been a couple weeks, but we had a regional Youth Art Month show at the mall here. Here are my panels.
Thanks to Laura from http://paintedpaperintheartroom.blogspot.com and Mrs. Hahn from http://minimatisse.blogspot.com for the Stylish Blogger Award. Both of these blogs I LOVE to read and both of these ladies are wonderful art teachers. The recent ATC trade I did was with the mini matisses! 🙂 Stylish Blogger Award Here are the request of the game. 1. Link back tot he person who awarded you. 2. List 7 things about yourself. 3. Pass the award along to 5 other blogs that you … Read more…
The winner of the book is: SPIRITMAMA Congrats!!!
Here’s a fun little way to get kids excited and looking at an artwork closely. I printed out small copies of a picture I was introducing to them and then laminated these. Next, I cut them into little pieces and placed them in envelopes. Each kid (or pair of kids) got an envelope and had to try putting the picture together as neatly as possible. If they finished, they put it back in the envelope and switched with another … Read more…
One World One Heart One World One Heart was created in 2007 by Lisa Swifka as an event hosted to connect bloggers with one another. Each of the blogs participating hosts a giveaway. You can find a list of participants/blogs here. This year, I am participating! Welcome to anyone who has stopped by my blog through this blog hop.Here’s a little about me: My name is Marcia. I am a K-6 Art teacher in Madison, WI. I’m 31 years old, have a husband named … Read more…
True Random Number Generator Result: 1 Powered by RANDOM.ORG Pam Speaker you are the winner. Please email me your address! you can email marciadotcom @ yahoo . com (no spaces). Congrats! Pam Speaker said… This sounds like a neat book! I’m a first year teacher and new to blogging! I find myself looking for books often to spark creativity in my lessons and in the art room. This giveaway is a great idea :]
For those of you who sell prints of your artwork or your own original photographs (like on Etsy or at shows) where do you get them done? or do you do it yourself?
If you’re interested in signing up for a chance to win a book see this post. Just post a comment there. Last chance to sign up!!!
A blog I recently discovered : Talking to Volcano Another big favorite blog of mine: Grrlscrap I’m having another giveaway of a book I no longer look through. The book is: Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity If you are interested, post a comment here and then I will randomly choose a winner on Tuesday. Sign up by MONDAY! Also a link to the blog that has linked to me and has given me the most traffic this … Read more…
