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Text "Art is Basic" in a purple watercolor style with paint splatters.

Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!

Abstract artwork featuring symmetrical yellow and black geometric shapes, with yellow shapes forming face-like profiles facing each other on a black background—an Inside Out Design masterpiece.

Inside Out Design

This is a fun, one-day project for kids that teaches about positive and negative space and is good for spatial…

  • May 13, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • 1st grade, second grade, shapes
Nine square-shaped Notan designs on a white background, each in a different color and unique pattern.

Notan Cut Paper Designs: Third Grade

I have several art lessons that I did not post about yet from this past school year, so look forward…

  • July 27, 2015
  • 1 Comment
  • collage, third grade

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