Art Lessons for Kids
My Kinder classes embarked on painting animals last month (owls, cows and sheep). Basic drawing skills were enhanced plus I shared what little knowledge of holstein cows I had. I talked a small bit about cow anatomy…big heads, all those stomachs, hooves and the best part of all, udders. They giggled a bit about the [...]
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This just might be the most adorable owl painting ever. Inspired by 4Catslife’s owl painting I saw on Pinterest, I took no shame in trying to copy the piece as best I could. My kinder classes were the lucky recipients, but this lesson is easily adaptable to any age group. Supplies The supplies are simple: [...]
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I’ve been admiring this art project for a while now. VK Bowerman’s Laurel Burch Cat project is colorful and fun. VK doesn’t have a website, only a Flickr account, so I can’t provide a website. But please visit her Flickr page and prepare to be inspired by wonderful work. I studied VK’s project and visited [...]
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Based on the books by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle, my What Do You See? Art Lesson booklet contains three adorable art lessons for the younger set. Children create their own painted paper for either a brown bear, panda bear or polar bear and use templates to create their own bear. Alternatively, the polar [...]
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Artist James Rizzi has been providing my art students with fabulous inspiration this Fall. After finishing another James Rizzi art lesson before class was over, some students continued on the Rizzi path and created these adorable birds. The 2012 James Rizzi Wall Calendar (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch Edition) is a great visual aid [...]
If you have some extra corrugated cardboard and a few bored kids, try creating these abstract fish and owls. I won’t lie. It took a while to cut out 65 fish and owl shapes plus the notches and mouth openings, but my Kinder students loved creating this cute project. Very hands-on, creative and fun. Kinder [...]
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Art and Literature is a natural combination. Art lessons flow directly from the illustrated pages and right onto my student’s art tables. For this 23-page Art Booklet, I have chosen three beautifully illustrated books and created kid-friendly, classroom-tested art lessons for you to use. Each lesson has a supply list, photo-tutorials, gallery of actual student’s [...]
This is an adorable, skill-loaded art project that you can do with your little ones. The book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? is a perennial favorite in Kinder classrooms. The book is about as perfect as you can get but strangely enough, really hard to incorporate into an art lesson. I racked [...]
Is there anything more adorable than watching little kids paint? Only if its watercolor paint! The brushes might be the smallest these five-year-olds have ever worked with and I sense the paint feels dainty to them. They are oh-so careful! This art lesson is a great introduction to the world of color. Paint mingles, spills [...]
Love zebras. From an art teacher’s point of view, zebras are a sure thing for an art lesson. Doesn’t matter how you draw the body, put some black and white stripes on it and you’ve got yourself a zebra. Easy Peasy. Zebra Art Lesson Ideas I have a hodge podge of zebra projects. Here are [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll said it again; don’t underestimate Kinders. Yes, they can be a tad bit rambunctious at times but reign them in and you got an eager audience. I love teaching this grade level. When the line of twenty tiny bodies walk through my door in September, the reason I teach [...]
It’s no secret that I love owls. Kids do, too. For this lesson, I gave my sixth grade students a few “owl” options. They could draw a realistic owl, a whimsical one or an owl in flight. I demonstrated basic drawing techniques for all three and provided a few black and white illustrations that I [...]
Phyl at “There’s a Dragon in my Art Room” has a fantastic Lesson on Fauves. I’ve never really thought about doing this type of lesson before, so as soon as I saw it on Phyl’s blog, I bookmarked it and filed it away for a time when I needed some extra help. My art program [...]
Chalk pastels give the dramatic color intensity of tempera or acrylic paint with almost no prep time. Chalk gets a bad rap as being too messy. For the little ones, it can be. Persuading mounds of dust into intricate corners is not for the impatient student. That’s why most of my chalk projects occur after [...]
We all love dogs, especially 1st graders who have TONS of personal stories to tell. For this dog art lesson, we began with a simple, almost abstract dog drawing, using oil pastel on white paper. I did a directed line drawing very similar to the drawing below and the kids followed along. They painted their [...]
