Deep Space Sparkle Art Lessons for Kids
Drawing Animals is a 17-page art booklet designed for grades one through six. The booklet includes how-to-draw handouts, full-photo tutorials and student galleries. Lessons Include: Dancing Cows is inspired by the famous “Cows” Creamery in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The business has a staff of artists who create funky cows images for their private label [...]
A trip to the library last fall yielded a plethora of art ideas. Keith Baker’s Big Fat Hen is filled with fabulous illustrations. Colorful, vibrant, detailed and adorable. Perfect for fifth grade! Similar to my chalk lizard project, this lesson produces fabulous results even for the self-proclaimed artistically-challenged student’s. Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker I [...]
Paper-bag “Katrina’s” ended our Dead of the Dead unit at Brandon School.These festive, vibrant sculptures were a blast to create. The fifth grade students worked hard taping paper bags and paper towel rolls together, adding paper plate hats and trying hard to find ingenious ways to make the arms stay together! After completing the armature, [...]
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This folk artist from Canada is one of my most favorite artists. Her vibrant, child-like art is not only full of joy but many of her pieces are inspired by the rugged, yet tranquil beauty of Nova Scotia, which is also my birthplace (Yay, Pictou!). Many of my students have never heard of Nova Scotia [...]
My fifth grade students at Brandon School have been working very hard on these dynamic portraits for three weeks. Yesterday, most finished. I’m so proud of their work!The finishing steps require attentive students and these children did a marvelous job of doing just that. You can find a complete tutorial in my Fun with Portraits [...]
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I’ve seen pictures of these cute little wizards on many art sites, and in all cases; no instructions! They looked hard to me and I couldn’t quite see how I would get 25 fifth grade kids to hand build one in under an hour. But once I had the slab of clay in my hands, [...]
Drawing buildings are fun but can be a challenge. Use the clever techniques in this 23-page booklet to turn every child into a budding architect! The templates provide the basic outline so that the students can spend more time developing the fun details. Templates provide confidence and structure and eliminates potential frustration when trying [...]
Pin ItIn fifth grade, kids develop serious art skills and personalities shine through. Sometimes, I can identify artwork based on the style of its owner. I’m always searching for fifth grade lessons that cover a wide range of techniques. This is the grade I want to expose the kids to as many different materials as possible, [...]
This lesson originated in Arts and Activities magazine, but the month and the year is lost to me. I clipped it and saved it for the perfect 3-week window for my fifth graders. This lesson would appeal to any upper elementary grade but it does require some patience, so the older the kids, the more [...]
The quintessential art lesson for elementary school: self-portraits! This 24-page lesson plan booklet includes six easy portrait ideas. Easy-to-follow steps, supply lists, full-color photo-tutorials, original Deep Space Sparkle handouts and student galleries included. The Portrait Lessons includes: Matisse-Inspired Portrait for early elementary: Using oil pastels, kids draw a simple self-portrait following either a directed line drawing [...]
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Drawing detailed architecture can be difficult for any age but for elementary students, it can be daunting. These beautiful Victorian homes were created by fifth grade students. We decided to start the drawing in pencil and work to add finishing details with a black marker. It’s one of the few art projects that begins with [...]
Inspired by the Spheres in Space lesson over at Art Project for Kids, I adapted it to include a sparkly galaxy and cut-out planets. Planets provide a wonderful subject for teaching shading, texture and depth of space. What you’ll need: 12″ x 18″ white drawing/sulphite paper (planets) Round plastic containers pencils and scissors Colored chalk [...]
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Painting birch trees is a perennial favorite in art rooms. And for good reason. They’re easy, accessible and impressive. I thought this take on the standard birch trees was equally as pretty. I believe I found the idea on Artsonia, but shame on me, I forgot to note the art teacher. Supplies: White 12″ x [...]
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Leapin’ Lizards! One way or another, I try to fit in a lesson involving my least favorite species of all…lizards. Hate finding them in my backyard, but I admit, they’re way too fun to draw. For this lesson, I demonstrate my strategy for drawing lizards on the white board. This is the key to the [...]
This is one of my most favorite art lessons. Not only is it colorful, expressive and fun to make, but it teaches a variety of art skills: combining colors, composition, human form and the importance of working neatly. Inspired by the paintings by Henri Matisse, this has been a perennial favorite with my fifth and [...]
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