Last week I received this wonderful photo from a 4th grade class in Royalton, Minnesota. Their teacher, Erin, had tried out my Picasso Paper...
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Day of the Dead Skull Drawing
Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and Latin American on Nov. 1st and 2nd. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and fr...
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A Positively Negative Pumpkin
I tried this with 2nd and 4th graders, and they both seemed to enjoy the puzzle aspect of making a whole pumpkin from cutting out just a hal...
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Halloween Monster Gloves
OK, so maybe this is more craft than art, but Halloween can be a great time to challenge your creative muscles. And if I could inspire even ...
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Bone Letters
You could make this a lesson about anatomy and what the different kinds of bones in your body look like – or you could just make some creepy...
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Black Cat with Glowing Eyes
These glowing cat eyes are made from blending a few layers of pencil crayons. White on the bottom, then yellow, and for those interested in ...
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Halloween Pasta Skeleton
A fun way to teach students how to apply basic anatomy to art is by creating skeletons from pasta. 1. To make a sturdy pallet, the students ...
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Jack-O-Lantern Painting in the Round
Most kinders have trouble drawing large free-hand circles on rectangular paper. For this project, inspired by a window decoration I recently...
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Halloween Drawing
I love the layering technique behind this drawing, which I learned from a colored pencil tutorial. Please note that not just any colored pen...
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Designer Wallpaper Skulls
I recently received a large wallpaper donation at my school, and have decided to show the students how to cut out “designer” skulls. 1. Stud...
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Glue and Pastel Spiderweb
This basic glue and pastel process can be used with a variety of subject matter - this spiderweb worked well for little hands that were just...
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Witch Hat Drawing
A Halloween stock art image inspired me to make this witch hat drawing. It’s a good example of using positive and negative space in a very s...
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Geometric Landscape
Would you like to make sure your students know how to mix a color, in this case green? Then give them one of Crayola’s Watercolor Mixing Set...
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Drawing and Shading Lesson
This project was a big success in my after school drawing class today. I started at Michael's where I found an assortment of bright red ...
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