Art Lessons for Kids
This is a terrific lesson to teach the fundamentals of kindergarten curriculum basics: Cutting and Pasting! I discovered this lesson over at the Artsonia website. Camelback Desert School in Arizona provided the original lesson of which I altered very little. The kids are literally tracing, cutting and gluing. There is nothing else involved and what good [...]
This lesson was discovered on the Incredible Art Department website. For those of you who haven’t visited there, go now! it’s a great resource for teachers everywhere. This lesson, in particular, was submitted by Michelle Peacock of Mohave Middle School. Thanks Michelle for sharing! I thought this was a perfect lesson to do with my [...]
Searching through more archived photos, I thought I would post another one of my favorites. This art project is adapted from one the Arts Attack video art lessons. The main goal of this lesson is to teach the “double-loading” technique. As the students dip their paintbrushes first in one color, then another, a special affect [...]
Van Gogh’s famous Sunflower series is one of the most recognizable art subjects in a classroom. My students loved the flexibility of drawing sunflowers and enjoyed the opportunity to create many types of flowers. Using oil pastel to color is a mess-free choice, although not nearly as “fast” as paints. Drawing with Oil Pastels The [...]
If you don’t subscribe to Arts and Activities magazine, you should. It’s full of great lesson plans complete with great photos. I found this lesson in the March ’07 issue. Art teacher Jennifer Bowden submitted this lesson which I found extremely accessible to my fifth graders. I had done a Picasso Face Art Lesson before [...]
Sometimes inspiration comes in many forms. I was perusing one of the many art supplies catalogs that happen upon my desk and I saw metallic paint for sale. Gold, bronze, copper, silver…rich, showy colors. I immediately thought of Gustav Klimt. I picked up a copy of Klimt and His Cat by Berenice Capatti. The story [...]
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This is one of my favorite art lessons for kids. It combines a couple of my favorite techniques…double-loading of the paint and black paint outline. Inspired by the French artist Georges Rouault, the lesson is designed to teach the children about light and how to achieve it within a painting. First the children draw a still [...]
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This lesson is a fun substitute to regular portraits. First, the kids looked at pictures of Picasso’s portraits (Portrait of Marie-Therese and Portrait of Dora Maar) and studied the shapes and patterns Picasso used. They loved Picasso’s way of drawing the facial features. Then, following a directed-line drawing the kids drew a head, neck, body and [...]
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One of my favorite artist is Maude Lewis, an impoverished woman from The Anapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. She died in 1973 but left her mark on the world through vibrant, child-like paintings. They’re the type of paintings that are perfect to teach to kids because they are non-threatening and often don’t employ standard artist’s techniques. [...]
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