Repeated Shape Designs
This is a simple challenge that leads to a variety of creative artworks! Choose one shape to repeat throughout your…
Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!
Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!
Designer Tree Houses
Hi! One day when I was sick I left a sub lesson plan for my students to design their own…
Art Using Train Tracks
In my last blog post, I reviewed the book Old Tracks, New Tricks. It is a super cute and creative…
Primary Color Hands for Kindergartners
Here is a simple lesson to introduce your students to the primary colors. We started out by reading the book Mouse…
Animal Personality Drawings
Here is a really fun twist on self-portraits! I teach the grades K-4/5 at my school and the middle school…
Googly Eyed Sticker Monsters
With Halloween coming, this is an especially fun open-ended project for little kids. I did this with kids up to…
3-D Bedroom Constructions and Perspective
This is an example of how teacher-directed projects (perspective and interior models) can include lot of student choice and opportunities…
Doodled Drawings, Collages and Sculptures
It’s summer time! This wrapped up my 10th year of teaching at my current school and 13 1/2 years teaching…