5 Valentine’s Day Projects for Kids
Each year, I tend to try something different for Valentine’s Day. I like to spice things up, don’t you? Here are some from the past that I have done. 1. Valentine’s Heart Collages 2. Cool Hands, Warm Heart…
Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!
Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!
Elementary Art Projects & Creative Lessons for Kids
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How to Paint Gorgeous Clouds with Watercolor Paints – 5th and 6th Grade
Clouds. Aren’t they amazing? Two years ago I took a very helpful watercolor painting class. One of our assignments was to paint clouds. Connecting Art with Science I love to make connections with other subjects. This one is…
Cross Hatched Animal Drawings- 3rd and 4th grade
These lovely cross-hatched animal drawings were made by my 3rd/4th grade class. The students used pictures from Zoobooks magazine for reference and practiced hatching and crosshatching techniques. I love using illustrated books to connect with our curriculum. For…
Celebrating 2012– Highlights of My Year
I read Carin’s post today about her creative achievements of 2012 and it got me thinking “what would be on my list if I were to make one?” At first I thought, well, I don’t have a whole…
Papermache Masks– 3rd and 4th grade
This is an art project that I repeat every year, because it is such a great process for the kids… starting with an initial sketched idea, building an armature, applying paper mache, painting and adding embellishments. I tie…
Holiday Round Up
Two of my classes made pictures frames like these: They turned out really cute and I did not take pictures until after the kids glued their pictures in, so I did not want to post any of the…
Glass Fusing
The fourth-sixth graders made these glass fused pendants. We are gluing the “bails” on the back to make necklaces. The kids are going to give these as holiday gifts to a family member or friend. They each made…
Free Printable Holiday Card to Color
Free Printable Christmas Card! Marit, founder of Featuring magazine, suggested that we all make print and color holiday cards to post on the website. This was perfect, because now my holiday card is done for school. For the past…
Prayers and Love
Prayers and love to those in Connecticut. I pray for peace, I pray for love, I pray for our country and world. As a teacher, parent and human my heart is heavy today.
Mixed Media Canvases with Kids
As you might know, I am a lover of all things mixed media! I also enjoy occasionally teaching an after school art workshop for my students (I’d love to do more, but since my daughter goes to daycare…
Egyptian Clay Sarcophagus Art Project
These are the fun sarcophagi the 4th/5th graders made from clay. We spent a few days learning about Egyptian art and drawing them on paper. See my previous post about the drawings. We traced the template onto slabs…
Found Object Faces– 1st grade
(these are the projects I burnt my fingers on!) USE LOW TEMP GLUE GUNS!!! Anyways, these are really charming and fun projects. The 1st graders learned about recycled art and how to use unconventional materials in art. We…
Winter Collages
My posting is going to be limited for a little while. I burnt four of my fingers on a hot glue gun yesterday and had to go to the urgent care. Basically the glue dripped on four fingers…
Frogs in a Pond (with Monet) 1st Grade
I love lessons where I can tie in different areas of study, art history and art techniques! This is a project I developed that incorporates study of frogs, Monet and watercolor painting. To start this project, we learn…
African Cloth Painting– 3rd Grade
The Intermediates (grade 3) are studying Africa in their Social Studies class. We learned about the African Korhogo Clothes. See this link for more details. This project focused on how symbols are used in African art. The students…