Art Lessons
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Andy Warhol “Campbell’s Soup” Pop Art
Grade 4 students learned about Andy Warhol and his contributions to the Pop Art movement. Students learned why Warhol was inspired by Campbell’s soup and used it for his print making technique. Students learned about form and how to draw using this element. Students began by designing their Campbell’s soup can. Some invented their own… Read more
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Landscapes
Here is an animated Video I created with my Bitmoji to help my students learn about landscapes with a cool song to help them remember where and how to place objects in the Foreground, Middle ground, and Background. I also teach them a cool dance along with learning the song 🎵 💃🏽🎨❤️ Read more
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Viva la Frida 🌺🌼🌸💓🙌🏽
This is one of my favorites! My Grade 4 students learned all about Frida Kahlo and her brilliant self portraits. This was a multi-media lesson beginning with a guided demonstration on how to draw Frida. Students used oil pastels and watercolors to design their portraits and background. Lastly students created tissue paper flowers for her… Read more
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Pop Art -Andy Warhol Prints
My Grade 4’s created Andy Warhol inspired prints of themselves using transparency paper and neon acrylic paints. I took their selfies and printed them out. They then made a stencil of their portraits and used contrasting colors to paint the positive and negative space of their images. My Grade 3’s helped by painting the Jackson… Read more
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Astronauts in Space
Grade 4 learned how to draw an astronaut through a guided drawing tutorial from Art for Kids Hub YouTube channel. Students then developed skills in drawing and blending using chalk and oil pastels as they created an outer space background on construction paper. Once students finished their backgrounds we mounted their astronaut using card stock… Read more
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SnapChat Filter Selfies
Students loved creating self portraits using snap chat filters. Move over Instagram we all know Snapchat has the best fun filters. To make our selfies even more real we mounted them on a cell phone drawing. This lesson is inspired by Cassie Stephens she has a tutorial on her blog as well as her YouTube… Read more
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Geometric Cats
My first grade did an amazing job drawing their cats and adding geometric shapes in the background. They developed skills in flow drawing which is an art technique developed by artycrafykids.com to encourage children to understand shapes and create them in a freer way. Students were encouraged to discover a natural flow, bringing mindfulness to… Read more
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Grade 5 Still Life
This unit incorporated a variety of elements and principles of art. The students began learning about Value and how to shade from dark to light and vice verse. I then taught them about form and how using value can transform a fruit from appearing flat to round. I did this with an apple, showing them… Read more
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