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Sand Castles 🏰
Grade 4 students had so much fun creating these under the sea sand castles. Read more
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Heather Galler inspired Bouquets 💐
My Grade 2’s absolutely loved drawing these enlarged flower 🌺 🌸 bouquets. This lesson comes from one of my amazing art teacher friends Cassie Stephens~ you can find more of her projects on her blog cassiestephens.blogspot.com Read more
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Kandinsky 🎵🎼🎹🎶🔴🟡🔵 Grade 3
Students learned about Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. Students learned about abstract art and how to express feelings through color, shapes and lines while listening to music for inspiration. Students created a Kandinsky inspired painting using all elements of art in one composition. Last students used yarn adding actual texture and emphasis to lines. 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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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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Native American Art
After discussing the history of Native Americans and their art, totem poles, tee-pees, dream catchers and watching a quick introduction video, we began our projects. 1st Grade Tee-Pee Project: Involved lines, shapes, foreground, middle ground, and background. They first used crayons to draw different lines on manila paper. Then they painted white paper using brown for… Read more
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Collaborative Line Project
My second grade did this line project using the crayon resist technique. I painted the boards with the thick black lines and each team of students was given a board to use crayons to draw “The Lines of Design” (some were using color pencils) on the white space. Once the boards were all filled with… Read more
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Bugs in a Jar
My 2nd Graders learned how to draw different types of insects. They first traced a template of a jar. Then they drew their bugs inside the jar. I then had them trace their drawing with a black oil pastel/ black crayons will also work. Then they used watercolors to paint their bugs and their jar.… Read more
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