Postage Stamp Art Project
My 4th/5th grade class designed their own postage stamps. I brought in a box of stamps for them to look through and see up close. I also showed them a short Powerpoint about stamps throughout history. There is…
Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!
Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!
Elementary Art Projects & Creative Lessons for Kids
Welcome to Art is Basic, a blog full of elementary art lessons, easy art projects, and teaching ideas for K-5 classrooms. Browse hundreds of engaging activities designed to inspire young artists.
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Line Windsocks for Kindergarten
Last week, I posted about line drawings that my kindergarten students made with oil pastels and watercolor paints. To finish these off, my students glued paper strip lines (folded to make zig zags, curled and pleated) to the…
See a Heart, Share a Heart: 3rd Grade Photography Unit on Hearts
We worked as a team to find hearts or create heart artworks indoors and outdoors. When I say we worked as a team, the kids collaborated and talked about how they could find or make hearts and they…
Kindergarten Line Paintings
My Kindergarten students learned about types of lines. They used oil pastels to draw a variety of line types and then painted over them with watercolor paints. We are going to turn these into windsocks! Stay tuned to…
25 Amazing Books for Teaching about Art
Missy left on comment on a previous post: ” LOVE that you’ve included some of your favorite kids books! Any other books you’d recommend to the mom for reference for trying to teach her kids basic art principles?”…
Lego Art Projects
Our school is building an addition, so I thought projects related to “building” would be fun. Legos are the perfect building blocks! So, we designed our own mini-figures with this template. I originally saw this idea from The…
Art Discussion Cards for Class Critiques or Art History Lessons
Hi there! I have a set of Art Discussion Cards that might be useful to you! These questions are great to use in small group discussions, individual writing responses and as a whole class critique. You can use…
Rules of the Art Classroom
I made a new poster for my room. Every couple of years I tend to tweak my art room rules. I struggled to come up with an “I” but settled on “Imagine new things!” I told the kids…
Dot Artwork by Kindergarteners
This is one of my favorite lessons and is a great way to start off the year. Many of you have seen the book The Dot (Amazon Affiliate link used, goes to support the costs of this blog)…
Colorful Mobile for Kids
We recently finished a mobile that will soon hang in our window wells in the hallway. Third, fourth and fifth grade students created single strand mobiles using Twisteez wire, foam pieces, feathers, beads and other random materials. They…
Back to School Bulletin Board
Well, another school year has begun! We’ve had one week of classes and I have been pleased with my student’s behavior, effort and creativity thus far. What I was not pleased with was catching strep throat the first…
Favorite Art Projects for Kids: Roundup of Kindergarten Lessons
Perhaps you are new to my blog or you would like to see some of my favorite kindergarten art projects from the past. Look no further! Here is a round-up of my 10 favorites. 1. Cool Hands, Warm…
A Visit from an Editorial Cartoonist
I still have some things to share with you from last school year. Towards the end of the year we had an editorial cartoonist visit our school. Every year our students draw editorial cartoons as part of the…
Why Art Teachers Look Forward to Going Back to School
There are still five more days to enter the back to school giveaway! I will announce the randomly selected winner on August 22. What are teachers looking forward to most about starting a new year? I picked…
Art Book for Kids Review: Too Much Glue
I was sent a free copy of this new children’s book to review and share with you. It is called Too Much Glue, written by Jason Lefebvre and illustrated by Zac Retz. It is a very cute story…