Deep Space Sparkle Art Lessons for Kids
Composition is hard. How do you know when a picture “looks” right? That’s what I asked my fourth graders today. We talked about what grabbed our attention and how our eyes travelled around the page. I used student art to demonstrate compositions that were effective. Creating a balanced picture was our goal. Fish were our [...]
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This is a super easy project for middle elementary kids. I like to demonstrate how to draw a tropical bird using the steps below. As I’m drawing, I explain how it’s easy to alter the shape of the body, shape of the beak or the expanse of the wings, etc. Depending on how well the [...]
Have you ever wanted to experiment with different supplies with the same project? Of course you have! You are an art teacher! I wanted to add a new spin on my favorite scarecrow collage. For one school, I used the standard watercolor paint technique but for the other, I used tempera paint outlined in black. [...]
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All successful watercolor projects begin with a great drawing. Use the how-to-draw handouts to help your students to their best work. This 19-page art booklet features four Watercolor Projects that are suitable for all elementary school grade levels. PROJECTS INCLUDE: Tweet! Tweet! An easy directed line drawing turns into a stunning piece. Perfect for Kinder [...]
Using the same technique as the Kinder Cows art lesson, this pig art lesson teaches your little ones simple drawing techniques and offers enough options for each child to create their own little piggy! Supplies: 12″ x 18″ white drawing paper Black, pink, white, green and yellow oil pastel or crayons Red (watered-down), green and blue [...]
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I had a request from one of my kinder teachers to teach a class on drawing animals. Not exactly my forte, but I remembered a cute lesson in the Art Projects for Kids Blog. Kathy created an adorable cow, complete with a graphic on how to draw the little Holstein. Here is Kathy’s post. I [...]
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I knew I wanted to do a watercolor lesson with my first graders and typically I do a fish or a flower. Tiring of those particular lessons, I wanted something new. While racking my brain, I glanced up at my bookshelf and noticed a worn copy of Where The Wild Things Are by Maurine Sendak. Perfect! [...]
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After a trip to the library, I was inspired by the book Chameleons are Cool illustrated by Sue Shields. I love her use of color and large shapes plus the abundance of watercolor techniques on each page. If I had a color printer at school, I’d photocopy a page and hand a sheet to every [...]
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This lesson took five classes for my sixth grade students to complete. I found this idea on the Artsonia website, but after trying to locate the source, I fell short. So, although the original idea was not mine, the lesson structure is…. It’s a good idea to show a variety of farm/barn pictures just so [...]
The fourth graders took a creative journey to the Rainforest and learned how to draw many rainforest inhabitants. We studied how snakes wind themselves around trees, how sloths hang upside down and what lurks in the shallow waters. The students were free to draw whichever animal they pleased except for birds (we already had that lesson). [...]
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This two-part lesson for first graders is one of my favorites. I love the collage aspect of this project. It requires at least three, 40 minute classes or 2 one-hour classes. Background supplies 12″ x 18″ watercolor paper Palettes of liquid watercolors (blues, yellow, green, orange and brown) Oil Pastels (white, green, black and brown) [...]
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