Deep Space Sparkle Art Lessons for Kids
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 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 [...]
Fifth Graders at MountainView sculpted these dragons from a single slab of clay. It might be a good idea to have kids draw a dragon first, but this class didn’t. I drew a few dragons on the white board and imposed requirements such as all dragons must have at least one head, tail and legs. [...]
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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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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One of the best books for art lesson ideas is Dynamic Art Projects for Children by Denise Logan. It has many doable art lessons for elementary kids. This Mola project above came from this book and includes great tutorials plus handouts to give to the children. I did this lesson with fourth grade kids but it would [...]
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This lesson came from the summer ’07 issue of Arts and Activities Magazine. Writer/Art teacher Debra Sweeney created a great project that tied American history with personal history. Her lesson involved researching family trees, but I decided to stick with the pure art possibilities of this amazing monument. Drawing Lady Liberty Draw Lady Liberty in [...]
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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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