After nearly a decade of teaching secondary students, I've had a lot of time to test out a variety of 2d art projects. Let's face it: as teachers, sometimes we plan and plan and plan. We are so excited to deliver the project, and then... it flops. Students are uninterested and the final products aren't
Middle School Students enjoy doing creative interpretations of their name, and exploring the art of graffiti lettering is always a hit. When I saw a lesson in one of my art teacher Facebook groups …
In my first year of teaching, I was terrified of teaching art. It was a subject I had always struggled with and that a few of the kids had already decided they HATED. Thankfully, I was able to find some art activities that everyone could be happily engaged in!
This lesson requires careful cutting out for the silhouette soldiers for it to look effective. I printed out pictures of ANZAC soldiers from the internet that would be suitable as silhouettes (on A3 paper). Students cut out the 'positive' shapes of the soldiers to be left with the 'negative' background to use like a stencil
Summer is almost over! How did that happen? Where did the last 2 months go? With a little under 2 weeks left until we go back to school my mind has been increasingly drawn to planning for the ne…
In this Aquarium Perspective Lesson, Middle School students will dive right into learning about the principle of perspective while designing an aquarium.
This is a new series of blogposts focussing on each strand of the Art curriculum. I know how hard it can be to find a good lesson so hopefully these ideas will save you some time when planning Art lessons. Landscapes Perspective Flowers
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a drip sculpture inspired by one of my FAVORITE contemporary artists, Dan Lam. Before exploring this project, check out Dan Lam's eye catching drip sculptures on her website here and her Instagram page here. Dan Lam’s "tactile, technicolor sculptures use unconventional materials to
Middle School Students enjoy doing creative interpretations of their name, and exploring the art of graffiti lettering is always a hit. When I saw a lesson in one of my art teacher Facebook groups …
Exploring famous artists for kids. There are famous artist inspired art projects for kids of all ages. Art ideas for toddlers, preschoolers upwards ar
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a drip sculpture inspired by one of my FAVORITE contemporary artists, Dan Lam. Before exploring this project, check out Dan Lam's eye catching drip sculptures on her website here and her Instagram page here. Dan Lam’s "tactile, technicolor sculptures use unconventional materials to
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Road-scapes Grant Haffner Style.... Elementary and Middle School ArtMixed Media Road Trip Landscape Art Lesson, Grant Haffner styleI have been preparing art lessons for the next school year. Recently, I gave this lesson a test run... I taught it online to my art club students in Vancouver, BC. They are elementary students (ages 6-12) They enjoyed the introduction to one point perspective and learning about contemporary artist, Grant Haffner. Here you can see what they created in one hour. This a
I need to get some class samples done for a Mola class I am leading next month: You can follow along while I create the horse: Molas consist of layers... Authentic Molas use the reverse appliqué method... In this 3 hour class we will use the fusible appliqué method This technique involves filling all the available space The horse shape is filled in... now to fill in the background area I am working with pre-fused fabrics and placing them on black felt I decided to use up the scrap fabrics all over the table for the background fill All the leftover snippets filled in the background nicely Giddyup I also had time to get this monkey mola done Mola Class Samples: I had fellow instructors over for Mola play days. I will post about that soon! I left the Thread Shed tonight and walked over to the house... The flowers in front of the house are putting on a show tonight as the sun sets... Calla Lilies at sunset... Magic happens when they are backlit from the setting sun CLICK HERE: to see My Quilts May Your Bobbin Always Be Full, LuAnn Kessi
Paint, draw, sculpt, and learn about famous artists and their art.
Leaves and patterns, perfect for back to school or fall art. This is a multi-step project so consider your pacing when choosing this project. I combined a few projects I’d seen online into this one.
Beautiful and creative inspiring art rooms. These art teachers have gone all out decorating their art rooms. Super-creative!
Seriously spooky Halloween Art Activities for Kids! Have fun in the classroom with these fun and creative Halloween printable coloring pages.
High school winter holiday art project featuring chalk pastel on black paper produces vivid results.
The Starry Night (1889) “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote Van Gogh to his brother Theo,…
We found the best middle school art projects online! Whether you are an art teacher teaching middle school students or have kids in middle school that you
Food Truck. Dragon Eyes. Graffiti Name. Tim Burton Inspired Selfies. Scratch board Drawing. These art lessons are the most popular with my students.This collection of my students' favorite art lessons will keep your art students engaged for weeks. These art lesson plans will cover 5-8 weeks of lesso...
Continuing with our fortnightly artist study I recently hosted a session to look at the work of Banksy. This was a different session to the others that I have run as not a great deal is known about Banksy as an individual. Why Banksy? Throughout the sessions that I have run, I have sought to... Read More
Well this is another great pinterest finds and also a spin on one point perspective. We did the drawing in pencil. Then outline in sharpie. It keep my 5th graders guessing what it was going to be until we painted all blue. Some of the figured it out. Then we draw sea life and colored that in with color pencil and glued them on. It was something different then the city. Well like I said I found this on pinterest, but here is the link from where it really came from. http://www.onceuponanartroom.com/ Thanks so much Chani for the great project
This Disney inspired "It's a Small World" collagraph printmaking art project for teens is a great way to share their love of Disney and art!
“Chromatic Cascade” by Jen Stark, Los Angeles Jen Stark herself! Parking Garage Mural by Jen Stark, Los Angeles Jen Stark is a Los Angeles based artist known for h…
Learn about one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century with these Jasper Johns Art Projects for Kids! Like he said, it's a poor life without art!
Mrs. Mount painting a tiny hand. Our 4th grade Dale Chihuly inspired oversized flowers. Some students and their family members taking photos. Finger knit weaving 3rd grade Fall Trees. Th students learned a little bit about perspective by adding trees in the foreground, middle ground and background. 3rd grade tiered cakes inspired by artist Wayne Thiebaud. "All about ME" word collages. This was a mixed media project using recycled dictionary pages, magazines, yarn, texture sheets and foil. Our P.E. teacher, Mr. Quarando painting a student's face. Ms. Knight painting a student's face. These are some cool mustaches! 4th grade copper name plates Matthew peeking through our SCREAM mural, inspired by Edvard Munch! Show me your best SCREAM face! Mrs. Mount painting away. Special guest, Mrs. Winiasz face painting at the art show! Our Principal, Mrs. Schwartz painting a student's hand :). Some parents checking out our awesome finger knit weaving.
Use this collection of Vincent Van Gogh teaching resources and complete Famous Artist Unit lesson plans for elementary art classes.
Y'all....I'm so proud of these 5th graders! They're my first class of the day, and have been a joy to have in the morning. These past few weeks, we've been working on a project that I haven't tried in a few years, but I'm glad we visited it again! Thanks for the idea Mrs. Rogers! The students take their name, or name of choice, write it once and trace it 7 more times to create this neat and unique work of art! Here's how we created ours! Materials: Pencils Sharpies Crayola Markers or colored pencils 9x9" 50 or 60lb paper Day 1: I show examples of other 5th graders' work, and then I demonstrate how to make block and bubble letters. I used the leftover scraps from cutting their squares for them to practice making block letters on. After we practice, we fold our paper in half 4 times, and write our name in one of the triangle sections of the paper, and trace with a Sharpie. I then fold my paper, and trace my name on the next triangle. I trace that with a Sharpie, and I continue tracing and folding my paper different ways, until I get back to the original name. Once I get all of that traced with a Sharpie, I'm ready to color! Color each section at a time, using the same color to unify that layer. Keep coloring until yours looks like these amazing artists! (This took 2 45 minute art classes to complete) Here are some great works in progress! DISCLOSURE: LINKS TO PRODUCTS ARE AFFILIATE LINKS, WHICH MEANS I GET A SMALL COMPENSATION FOR SALES. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR BLOG!
A fun abstract art project for kids using cardboard and simple art supplies Inspired by Pablo Picasso's famous Bull (Plate V )
The latest from my Windoo project
