I’ve tried the perspective city street lesson before, but the students seemed to spend more time measuring lines than anything else. This le...
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Paper Collage House
Kinders spend class time talking about their homes and neighborhoods. This collage project gives them a chance to visualize what their home ...
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“Where Am I?” Art Journal Page
This project is possible only because I found a great source for paper crepe tape at Red Bow Studios on Etsy. The many colors and widths yo...
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How to Draw a Fox
This fox is made from just a few simple shapes, but when placed on black paper and colored with oil pastels, he (or she!) can look really dr...
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Paper Mache Piggy Bank
These pigs did take a bit of work, but were worth all the effort in the end. SESSION 1: Students covered a 12" balloon with a layers of...
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Nominated for Top 25 Creative Mom Blogs!
My blog has been nominated to the Top 25 Creative Mom Blogs of 2012 on Circle of Moms! Their top 25 list honors mom bloggers and will featur...
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Monet Pastel Iris Drawing
An on-going dilemma I face is how to help students draw new shapes, without giving them too much help. My current solution is to give them p...
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Keith Haring in Chalk and Glue
Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s. His s...
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Romare Bearden-Style Collage
Many art historians consider Romare Bearden to be one of America’s most important and inventive artists. Bearden loved collage, combining p...
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Watering Can Flowers
Instead of drawing your average vase, I tried having my watercolor class draw and paint flowers coming out of a watering can. Just a few cur...
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Make Your Own Color Transfers
This really works! I placed some cheap packing tape on a magazine photo and let it sit in warm water for about 5 minutes. The white peels ri...
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Dr. Suess Day Decorations
Our school had a Dr. Suess celebration, and with our modular classroom set up in California, we have a lot of long outdoor halls without muc...
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Dubuffet Cow Drawing
Jean Dubuffet painted “The Cow with a Subtile Nose” in 1954, and I’ve always wanted to see how close I could get to the look with a good ol...
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Support the Arts in Texas
Andrea McLester of Salado, TX has started a project to help schools that are eliminating their arts programs due to a lack of funding. Inste...
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Cityscape Drawing
I made my own graph paper for this project by printing a grid of 1/4" lines on a large piece of paper. This eliminates the need for rul...
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How to Draw an Angel Kitty
Even his simplest of grids can helps students fill up an entire paper when drawing. In this case, just four equal sections (by dividing the...
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Symmetrical Jewels
This project offers students a chance to drw and color in a symmetrical fashion. 1. Students make a center dot all four sides of their paper...
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Butterfly Specimen in a Box
I was inspired by a painted butterfly over at Genine’s Art Blog, and simplified the look for kids with Sharpie markers and origami box. 1. I...
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How to Draw a Teddy Bear
One last Valentine idea – a teddy bear holding a heart with message of choice. I loved how this worked out in my drawing class today. 1. Thi...
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Art Journaling 122, Valentine’s Day
I plan to do this page layout with my afterschool art journal class. It involves layering crumpled tissue paper shapes with watery glue. I l...
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Valentine’s Day Card, FREE Download
To make a super quick Valentine’s Day Card, just click HERE and download my template that you can color, fold and deliver. The letters all ...
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Valentines from Texas
I’d like to share these two inspiring works of art that were emailed to me last week. Julia from Pearland, Texas wanted to show what her tw...
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Valentine Art Trading Cards
I adapted my earlier “Hearts of Many Colors” project, thanks to having some Strathmore Art Trading Cards on hand. They are made to work wi...
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Get Creative with The Lorax
I am happy to be a part of a blog tour of crafts and activities inspired by Universal Pictures’ Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax movie , which will be ...
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Paper Mache Valentine Heart Box
I used modeling clay to first form these Valentine heart boxes. If you can buy the clay at a ceramic supply store, it can be pretty inexpen...
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Symmetrical Valentine Birds
I showed students how to create texture in their watercolor paintings, just by sprinkling a little salt while the paint was still wet. The s...
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Oversized Chalk Self-Portraits
The idea of coloring with chalk over dried glue lines is not new to me, but trying it out on really large paper is. I loved how it let stude...
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Jim Dine Shiny Valentine
Jim Dine, an American Pop artist, used a lot of common images in his art, but is best known for his heart paintings. His creative style is o...
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Homemade Sundress Fashion Show
For those of you following HOPE Art’s Homemade Sundress Drive , would you like to feel like you were in Haiti when they were delivered last ...
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Hearts & Trees
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright told his students, “Limits are an artist’s best friend.” That’s because they force us to find answers we might ...
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“Cool Shades” Art Journal Page
I like to give students photos of items as a kind of drawing prompt. In this case I was looking for images of sunglasses, and came across ...
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Valentine LOVE Card
I’ve noticed that a lot of students are interested in drawing block letters. This project ties to a contemporary pop artist, and makes a n...
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