Art Class Room Set Up
Today was our first day of school. Would you like to see a glimpse of my room? Paints Paintbrushes Free Draw Cart View of the classroom. We have small rooms because we have small classes. This is the…
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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Fun Blog
I just discovered a fun blog from a kindergarten teacher who does lots of way cool art projects. These kids are so lucky to have such a creative teacher! I’m impressed with the felted balls she made with…
I really like these drawings
I really like THESE drawings. (they are not mine, but they are making me want to pick up my sketchpad.) Drawings in a crowded cafe. If you click on the link above you can see them up close.
woah!
While searching the internet for some clay how-to’s I found this picture. Woah! That’s crazy! It’s on About.com
Pinecone Crafts
At our church garage sale I picked up a large bag of pine cones for $2. I suppose I could have found pine cones on the ground, but hey, they were all in a bag right in front…
Creativity Exercise
I’m going to have some of my students do a creativity exercise on the first day of school to get their juices flowing. Creativity TestDirections: Use your imagination to invent something that we could add to the school. …
Clay Figures
So, you may remember that I made a couple clay figures as demos for a kids’ clay class that I taught. I painted the girl and put her in a chair that I had. This is a chair…
Making Pendants
Making jewelry is one of the hobbies I enjoy. When people ask me what kind of art I do on my own, I have a hard time saying what I do… I love photography, jewelry making, collages, drawing,…
Photography from the Dells
We went to the Wisconsin Dells the other weekend and of course, I took about 300 pictures. My theory is that if you take 300 pictures, one of them is bound to look great! Playing around with photo…
Weaving on Burlap with Kids
Weaving on BurlapWeaving camp has been over for a couple of months now and I’m finally getting around to updating the last of the lessons I taught for the camp. Just a refresher, the weaving camp was for…
Collages I made for the baby nursery
Duck Collage #2, 2009 I thought I would post some pictures of collages I made a year ago for my soon to be born baby girl, Daria. We were trying to think of a theme for the baby’s…
Really Cool Drawing Site
While reading Mini Matisse’s Blog I learned about this really cool online drawing program that allows you to draw with different types of marks: fur, webbed, squares, ribbon, sketchy and others. I’m in love with how it looks! …
Cute Artsy Baby Blog
This blog shows pictures of a baby on top of towels arranged in an artful scene. They are so adorable!! These pictures are gorgeous, but they make me mad for two reasons. 1. My baby NEVER slept peacefully…
