This breakdown of a bunny drawing is based on Sachiko Umoto’s illustrations in her book “Let’s Draw Cute Animals” . I just added a grid back...
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Pastel Spring Eggs
One arts standard for elementary students is to learn to tint colors. My kids seemed to really enjoyed seeing how many colors they could mak...
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Baby Plant Craft
A parent recently donated a LOT of baby food jars, so I’ve been playing around with some different ideas. This comes purely from supplies th...
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Student Art from Kansas City, MO
Melissa from Student Age Child Care (a school program provided by the local school district) emailed me her butterfly with a note that said...
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Shrinky Dink Jewelry
Recently the subject of jewelry making came up in one of my afterschool classes but my mind couldn’t seem to get past knotted string and exp...
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Shrinky Dink Jewelry, Kandinsky Style
Here’s another approach to take with my Shrinky Dink project using the popular Kandinsky circles-in-a-square. The original colored square o...
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Jasper Johns 3D Painting
Jasper Johns is an American artist whose richly covered number paintings like this , rose to prominence in the 1950s. I created this projec...
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How to Draw a Bushbaby
What’s a Bushbaby you may ask? I’m not really sure, I just know they're really cute, which is all I need to keep the attention of my aft...
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Mission Drawing on Popsicle Sticks
I just found that one of my favorite discoveries, dry wax paper , also works with colored pencils. This means that white pencil crayon is no...
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Grocery Bag Paper Chain
Paper chain art seems to be most commonly associated with gum wrappers, as was popular in the 1960s. I’ve found that the process of folding ...
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For Japan, With Love
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I’m in the Top 50 Craft Mom Blogs at Babble!
Babble.com just came out with their first Top 50 Mom Blogs , and I made the list! I’m thrilled to have Art Projects for Kids included, liste...
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William Wegman Art by Students
As a follow-up to my William Wegman posting a few days ago, here is the perfect example of why I think kid’s art is so great. My sample dra...
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Warm and Cool Watercolor Weaving
Nothing makes warm colors look brighter than when they are sitting next to cool colors, and vice versa. This is a colorful way to practice p...
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William Wegman Drawings
William Wegman is a photographer famous for his compositions with his Weimaraner dogs. His fascination with humanizing his animals has creat...
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Bleach Pen Jeans
There seems to be lots of decorative art in fashion these days (think peasant / ethnic wear) and this is a good way to imitate that look wit...
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Watercolor Sheep
I love almost anything that children paint with watercolor. This is a simple watercolor resist, done with sheep imagined on a hillside. 1. T...
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HAITI’S CHILDREN NEED US NOW!
You can download this free “Help Save Haiti” mur al here to fight Cholera. Amount raised: $715
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FREE Pattern Snake Template
A tip from a teacher led me to this coil snake project, which I have recreated on my computer. The original called for drawing on paper plat...
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Student Art from Oregon
Last week I received this email: “Attached is a photo of the O’Keeffe Poppy Mural we made for our school’s auction this year. It was comple...
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Overlapping Matisse Shapes
I combined an overlapping lesson with Matisse-like shapes to make a colorful drawing exercise. You could begin by talking about how Matisse...
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La Boca House Collage
La Boca is a neighborhood, or barrio of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires and is a popular destination for it’s colorful houses. Looking a...
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Oil Pastel Drawing on Dry Wax Paper
If you’ve read many of my posts that mention dry wax paper, you may have noticed that I most often use it with watery glue to attach it to a...
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