I have always wanted to have my students spend more time making dimensional things, without getting into a lot of expense or heavy prep work...
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Sunflowers, Up Close & Personal
Vincent Van Gogh is probably most famous for sunflower paintings. This project shows how pictures can become more interesting when some shap...
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Paper Chains, Gum Wrapper Style
Gum wrapper paper chains have been around for a long time, but the original size is rather tedious for small hands. I found that scrapbook p...
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In Memorium, Matthew Aaron Adams
A teacher, Christopher Janousek, from Gentry Junior High School in Baytown, TX sent me this photo of one of his students, Matthew Aaron Ada...
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Wet-on-Wet Watercolor Trees
My goal for my watercolor students is to have them learn how to bleed colors together when they want, and keep them separate when they do no...
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Line Pattern Leaf
This is a study of patterns that could be simplified for kinder and 1st grade students. I drew my leaf and filled it in, but a large templat...
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Draw a Hand Tree
I saw this idea on Artsonia.com, and love showing kids how lines can give dimension to their art. 1. The students first trace their hand on ...
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Tissue Paper + Watercolor Fall Leaves
These are cut out tissue paper leaves outlined with a gold marker, and enhanced with just a bit of watercolor paint. Can you tell I just can...
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Textured Fall Leaves
One of the California Visual Arts Standards for 1st graders deals with adding texture to art. I made these paper towel leaves to give this p...
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Giant Fall Maple Leaf
A photo of giant paper flowers inspired me to create this oversized maple leaf. Last year I made a life-size one (see post below), but think...
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How To Draw a Fall Tree
I found this project on Artsonia.com , and I love how it makes students think of trees as a series of branches, and not just a fluffy shape ...
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HOPE Art Returns to Haiti
You can support HOPE Art's next trip to Haiti. Read all about it HERE and please consider donating to our new Kickstarter campaign.
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Vegetable Garden Watercolor Painting
I found this idea for painting vegetables over at Artsonia.com. If anyone would like to take credit for creating it, please let me know. I’v...
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Custom Made Art Journals
This year for my after-school Art Journal class, I decided I was tired of ordering them online, paying almost $9 for a small 7" x 10&qu...
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Symbols of the Season Drawing
There are seasonal symbols that work not only for Halloween, but fall and Thanksgiving as well. I’m planning to have students divide their p...
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Line Art Leaves
This is a good exercise for those small motor skills, no realistic drawing skills are needed. I’ve found students have a lot of fun just loo...
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Art of Education Giveaway Winner...
Congratulations to Stephen Willson, winner of the Art of Education Classes Giveaway! Thanks to everyone who took time to leave a comment, ...
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Kinder’s First Art Project
I’m guessing that as an art teacher I’m not the first to overestimate the abilities of my students. I’m never more aware of this than when n...
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Pin Flowers
This project came from an Arts and Activities magazine, and I loved how well it worked with kinders. 1. The students are to draw in pencil ...
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Doodle Summer Self Portrait
I like to have my first art project of the year somehow acknowledge all that has happened over the summer. I’m going to try a doodle self-po...
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Classroom Colored Pencil Labels
This is just a simple way to make a name label for a student, and could be used many different ways. I find that students tend to use their ...
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Back to School Decorated Pencils
Here’s one quick way for your kids to get creative and personalize their back-to-school pencils. I just pulled out my handy-dandy stash of S...
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Close Up Portrait
I've found that drawing a portrait of another person from a photo can sometimes help students see more details than usual. 1. Find close...
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Homemade Dress Drive for Haiti
Last Auguest, when Project HOPE Art was at Nadine’s orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, it became abundantly clear just how few clothes many of he...
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