Art Matters

I gave the K's each a small piece of cardboard which they dipped in black paint, and we talked about finding the side with the bumps (th...

4th Grade- Cat Paintings and Clay Facades 3rd Grade- Word Art Kindergarten-Birds on a Wire 2nd Grade- Bird Houses 1st ...

Don't know why it took me until this year to come to this idea, but here it is.  I just completed 3 different printmaking projects, 2 of...

The Showcase- The video game background was a group activity as people finished. Blue Bird on the left is NOT of the Angry Bird varie...

I am in the middle of a unit on Facial Expression/Emotion with my 1st graders.  We modeled and drew facial expressions, we made ...

The Kindergarten students have been looking at American Symbols- this is a classroom standard that I agreed to work into my plans ov...

If you've been teaching for any amount of time, you know that the pumpkin lends itself so well to the art room at this ...

I was supposed to teach my 3rd graders about abstract art this 9 weeks.  It was supposed to involve paint.  And, I don't know- mayb...

Here are a couple finished art show pieces.  They will not however be hanging in our school art show- they will be entered ...

I am starting a lot of sentences with "I saw this thing on Pinterest" lately.  Well, in this case, I remembered I saw i...

So, the kindergarteners and I have been looking at penguins.  We've read stories, and then we went to "pebblego.com" an ...