My young journal students seem to work best with multi-step projects, so this stamp, trace, write and color page kept them busy for most of ...
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Sunset Cityscape
This is a project that lets even the very young make a bold and colorful image. I found it on the Artsonia.com website. 1. I gave the studen...
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The “Inkblot” Book Winner is...
Jacqueline who wrote... “Looks like a great book. It reminds me of a lesson I did with my 4th graders where we used a straw to blow waterco...
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Draw A Textured House
I did this house drawing last year with kinders, and remembered having a lot of success with it. This year I just added a texture element, w...
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From Geometric to Organic
This is a fun and easy project that shows how you can turn geometric shapes into organic ones. 1. You could have students draw a set of tria...
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How to Make a Mola
Molas are handmade textiles from Panama which use a reverse appliqué technique. Several layers of different-colored cloth are sewn together ...
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Alien Names
I thought I would get a so-so response to this lesson, but found that the students were delighted to see how 'alien-like' their name...
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Gustav Klimt Drawing
An Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt lived in the early 1900's and started his career as a decorator. He is probably most famous for his pa...
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Cool and Warm Color Collage
The very first color theory lesson that students as young as 1st grade can learn is which colors are considered 'warm' and which are...
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How to Draw a Dragon
This was my son's favorite art project from his 5th grade school year. The popularity of the dragon theme had even some of my most hard-...
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Overlapping Rings
This is a good exercise for students to learn how to use lines to make images look like they overlap, and how to use color to give your art ...
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Layering and Shading Exercise
I used to introduce 3rd and 4th graders to shading and tinting techniques with circles and spheres, but found this week that straight lines ...
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Art Journaling 125
I finally had a chance to try printing with bubble wrap, and loved how it worked in my art journal class this week. There were so many colo...
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Andy Warhol Portraits
Andy Warhol's repetitive style is fun to duplicate and the perfect example for students to create their own repetitive drawings using Sh...
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Ceramic Cupcakes
I saw this project over at Artsonia.com a while back and it's been a huge hit. I use a kiln but you could air dry the clay and paint it...
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Starry City Night
Vincent Van Gogh's “Starry Night” painting has inspired many an art project, and this is just one more. 1. Distribute 9" x 12...
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Glue and Pastel Landscape
Kids are SO lucky that new art supplies seem to constantly show up in stores these days. In my day, just having a 64-box set of crayons mean...
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Art Journaling 124
A simple stamping project worked really well in my afterschool art journal class today. The theme was “Circles”, which some kids turned into...
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Spheres in Space
Learning how to turn a circle into a sphere can be lots of fun if you use an outer space theme. 1. Die cut presses and heavy mat board were ...
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