May 2009 - Art Projects for Kids

Marker Self-Portrait

This is similar to some earlier marker and canvas art, but this is the first time I had students trace photos of their faces in a larger siz...

This is what another student did last week with my “Finish the Picture” project. She started with a fashion magazine photo, and made this ve...

Click on the image above and drag to your desktop. Print with the “Scale to Fit Media” setting.

I’m happy announce a new feature on my home page called “Kid’s Art Gallery”. I’m getting some really great photos of artwork inspired from m...

This mural, a collage of all my 5th grade students and their teachers, brought lots of "oohs” and “aahs” at my school’s silent auction ...

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How to Draw Cartoon Faces
The great thing about cartoon drawing is that it is simply meant to “suggest” things like eyes, nose, hair, etc. I have…

Magazine Circles of Color
I started this page with the idea of repeating circles. Students could fill in solid circles with colors that appeared…

Gold and Black Greek Vases
My quest for multi-cultural art continues, which has led me to a new media combo that I really like. It’s using food…

Cityscape from Book Pages
I was about to get rid of an old box set of paperback dictionaries, when I realized the pages had just the weathered…

Dinosaur Fossils
This is really fun for students that are learning about fossils and imprints.1. I found some inexpensive plastic…