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Art is at the Core : Jacob Lawrence
American painter Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) believed that individuals “cannot tell a story in a single painting.” His work, typically painted in series, revolved around African American narratives. Lawrence’s series are natural pairings with numerous concepts across the curriculum.
How To Create Your Best Silly Snail Art
This delightfully easy snail art project merges the beauty of spring with the whimsical charm of easy snail painting, offering an engaging outlet for self-expression and imaginative exploration. In this post, I’ll share the Snazzy Snail Art project and why it’s a personal favorite art project for spring. It’s silly and fun and a perfect spring art lesson.
How to Paint Paul Cezanne- Inspired Apples
This project was such a hit with my third graders last year. I taught them about Paul Cezanne as a person and artist. I read Cezanne and the Apple Boy to them and had them act out what they heard. I instructed them to stand right behind their chairs, and modeled what that meant. This helped them self-control, a valuable lesson for all children.
How to Create an Easy Seahorse Art Project for Kids
One of the best benefits of art is its link to creativity. Because of art, this is built by exercising fine motor skills, problem-solving, and neural development. Several years ago, for my third grade class, creativity was brought to life through these skills with an activity of creating a seahorse based on a book by Eric Carle.
#1 Best Way to Create a Sea Turtles Drawing with Basic Shapes
Students of all ages benefit from using basic shapes for simple animal drawing activities. This lesson not only makes sea turtle drawing easy, it also teaches a way to make sea turtle painting easy too! Just look at these charming sea turtle drawings! 🐢✏️
A 5th Grade Project: Landscapes with Gold Leaf
Fifth grade is the year where art skills are refined through crafting pen and ink drawings, watercolor paintings, and sculptures focusing on proportion, value, and scale. Students also begin translating words into pictures and pictures into words by investigating through depicting settings, combining shapes for meaning, using color for mood, and responding to art.
Literature-Based Art Project: Tap-Taps
Combine literature with art and you now have a unique way to teach children using a variety of subjects and concepts. For this fun project, my students were able to learn about tap taps by reading the book called Tap-Tap, by Karen Lynn Williams.
Peacock Art Activities
If you are planning a peacock art project or if your students are interested in how to draw a peacock easily, look no further! I’ll give you three simple peacock art projects for students.
Alligator Art Activities
Alligators are large reptiles and are closely related to the crocodile. People often confuse one with the other; however, these two reptiles are very different. An alligator is distinguished by its wide, rounded snout and black color. Little tips like this can make for a great study about alligators, and while your students are learning, don’t forget to include alligator art activities.
Looking for Art with Pumpkins? Try this Engaging Pop Art Activity
Looking for some ideas for art with pumpkins?
This is one of those pumpkin art activities that you’ll come back to every year! This lesson embraces the artistic style of pop art and makes a great time of fun and learning for students.
As with most of the activities I do with my students, I like to use a holistic approach that incorporates much more than art. In this pumpkin project, your students will learn about pop art artists, read a story, and use imagery common during the fall season - a pumpkin!
Explore Shadows and Light
Between 1927 and 1930, Edward Hopper painted two landscapes. These landscapes featured the Two Lights lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. His play of sunlight and shadow across the buildings offered rich formal possibilities. For this art teacher, I saw the possibilities of offering my 5th grade art students a lesson they would remember.
Cityscape Collage Project
The word “collage” literally means to glue. And if there’s anything children love to do, it’s playing with glue. The love of all things sticky can work for your advantage when you use it to work in some learning while giving your students the opportunity to use it in making art.
How to Make Really Easy Animal Masks with Plaster Wrap
For this animal plaster mask project you’ll want to plan for at least three total hours of completion time. This is best done with upper elementary-aged students. For the materials, you can try to get some donated, such as the mask forms and plaster wraps. In short, you’ll need:
Art Camp Project : Blue Horse by Franz Marc
If you plan on hosting an art camp, keep reading to discover how to host one using the Blue Horse by Franz Marc as inspiration. This lesson is great for the classroom as well. Any age and ability level can do it!
Art is at the Core : The Last Supper
It has been said that Leonardo Da Vinci accomplished more than any other man in history. He was an inventor, a musician, a sculptor, an architect, an engineer, a writer, and a painter (among so many other things). Da Vinci is a staple in art curriculums worldwide, here are some ideas for integrating one of his most famous works, The Last Supper, with other subjects.
Art is at the Core : Eileen Agar
Few classic works of literature spark the level of whimsy reached by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. That’s one of the reasons a myriad of artists have created works based on the stories over the years. As such, the incorporation of the story with Eileen Agar’s Lewis Carroll and Alice makes for an engaging and fun addition to any classroom. Here you will find ideas for using the work to enhance and integrate with other subjects.
Art is at the Core: Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai was born in 1760 to an artisan family in Edo, Japan. He became an apprentice to a woodcarver at the age of 14. At 18, he was accepted into the school of Katsukawa Shunsho, where he began his mastery of ukiyo-e, a style of woodblock printing and painting.
Bob Reeker: Capstone Projects and Clay
“Capstone project” is one of the latest buzz terms in education. It is often a research-based experience resulting in demonstrating what is discovered during the research, and it can take most any form of delivery.
Assemblages Pinterest-inspired Art Project
The week before we hosted the Whole Schools Initiative Winter Retreat at my school, I realized we needed something to hang on the bulletin board in the foyer by our school entrance. There was a ton of artwork in our foyer already. I panicked only a small amount before hitting Pinterest.
Collaborative Octopus Canvas
Just thought I'd share this canvas that my students and I made a couple of years ago. It is one of my favorite collaborative pieces that we have ever created. This is an art form that I highly recommend that you do with your art students.
