Art Matters

Always be careful with student images-in this case, the one face you see is used with permission A promising coil pot practice I LO...

While the kindergarten students are looking at Jim Dine's Heart series, my 2nd graders' art is for the birds.  We began by looking...

3rd Grade "Zentangle".  2nd Grade- A Very Color Theory Christmas 3rd Grade "Zentangle" Super Shape Sandwich...

Fabric weaving is nothing new, although, last year, I learned to have the kids push the strips really tight, so it looks more like a rug. ...

I just love these, and to the kiddos, the bleeding tissue is magic when they shake of the dried off pieces to see the colors.  I was pleas...

The second graders looked at the work of Hockney and Woods, and created a drawing using hills as the foreground.  Each hill had to have a ...

I love pinterest, and I also am really loving Artsonia, the more and more I use it.  I came accross this project and decided it would be...

Hansel and Gretel 3 Little Pigs Jack and the Beanstalk I've always liked the torn paper pictures.  I think they have a distin...

I love this time of year.  Grading is just about done, and I get to spend the last few days of the year enjoying the kiddos.  We finis...

I wanted to talk to my second graders about abstract art, and the methods artists may choose to use in order to achieve an abstract effec...

I admit it.  Coil pots were really difficult concept to 2nd graders.  Until that is, I learned that a Terra Cotta flower pot (very inexpensi...

Zebra Scorpion Not exactly sure- but it's cute! Bunny Rabit Tiger I decided to change up one of my favorite 2nd grade spring projects. ...

The second graders were to cut their silhouettes out of tissue paper, and then paste them to the snowy background. Oh, the best laid plans....