Polymer clay is pretty cool stuff to work with. It has this great ability to stick to itself and not fall apart. I’ve used it with smaller s...
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Thick and Thin Trees
This project produced a lot of really nice paintings in my afterschool watercolor class today. It's a bit of a stretch to ask kinders to...
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Art Journaling 128
One of the journal page ideas that I really like is having a pattern of writing in the background of a drawing. With my class full of kinder...
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Paper Mache Bowl, Part 2
As promised, here is my follow up to yesterday's post. This bowl was made and painted by a very talented kinder, believe it or not. 1. I...
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Paper Mache Bowl, Part 1
My current afterschool paper mache project is turning out to be one of my most reliable, ye olde balloon and mache combination. I posted thi...
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Chameleon Watercolor Painting
You can start your lesson by reading Eric Carle’s “Mixed-Up Chameleon” , which gives the students freedom to decorate their reptile however ...
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Torn Paper Kandinsky
Abstract art projects are great for those who feel that art is always about drawing, and may not always be so keen on their skills. Sometime...
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Happy Earth Day Coloring Page
I found this really great free font called Wild Wood at Font.DownloadAtoZ and made a quick coloring page for those still celebrating Earth ...
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How to Draw a Laurel Burch Cat
This project was inspired by a talented artist named Laurel Burch , who has now sadly passed away. She developed an abstract style of painti...
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Tissue Paper Flag Mural
Can you believe this mural is made out of craft tissue paper? Thanks so much to Krista Dillon and her students who experimented with my Cana...
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“I Love to Collage!” Book Giveaway
I found this great book at my local art store, and love some of it’s new collage ideas. Just to name a few: cutting cardboard tubes in half ...
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Watercolor Landscape
Here's a simple watercolor project I tried out last week. It turned out to be a good way to teach the very basics of watercolor, namely...
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Art Journaling 127, Draw an Elephant
Sometimes when I need inspiration for my art journal class, I head to the children's section of my local library. I found "Elephan...
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Abstract Numbers
Charles DeMuth was an American artist who lived in the early 1900's, and became famous for his abstract paintings that used lines to fra...
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Paul Klee Abstract Castle
Paul Klee was one of the great colorists in the history of painting. I developed this project that imitates his abstract “Castle and Sun” p...
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Aboriginal Snake Drawing
In Australia, there are Aborigines who live today as they did thousands of years ago. Like cave painters, they use art as a way to tell stor...
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