The Op Art Heart lesson is the perfect art project for Valentine's Day! See the art techniques that make these hearts really pop for an easy art activity!

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My 6th graders werefinishing up their still life projects and I had to be gone for a Relay for Life commitment. So that meant I had to have a sub during a super important step. I knew they sub but I was still NERVOUS. Mrs. Hahn at Mini Matisse to the rescue. I was writing out my lessons when her blog post "I'm in LOVE with notans" came through my reader. I just knew it would solve my problems... The kids would still get to do a fun project but I don't have to worry about them "messing" up an important step on their still-life drawings. Thank you Mrs. Hahn for the idea and Mrs. Couch for teaching a great lesson... I love how they turned out. The students were given the task of using one 6x6 piece of red paper and one 9x12 piece of white paper. They had to cut out hearts, reversing the paper in and out (like you do with notans) BUT their goal was to create a graphic image and not a "valentiney looking" image. I think they did a great job!

Background acrylic paint, glued the inchies on; hearts are cut from painted tissue paper.

Heart Art - Mixed Media Lesson - Jim Dine is an American Pop Artist. He did a series of painting of everyday objects including things like hammers, robes, & hearts. This project is loosely inspired from Jim Dine's Heart paintings.

One of my favorite modern/Instagram artist to teach about is Chris Riggs, his work is simple but edgy and has a great message of love. I ...

I usually never do a lesson two years in a row. I just love this lesson though. I never get tired of it because the kids love it and their artwork is just so expressive. We did it again this year with third fourth and fifth, and I could just wallpaper my whole house with all the different and beautiful heartworks. I love them so much! Third grade did it a bit differently. I showed them videos about zentangles and they made that as their background. They could only color the heart and we learned about the art principal of Emphasis. I tell the kids to break up the space with 5-10 lines from heart to edge of paper. Then fill each section with designs.

Art sub lesson plan ideas for kindergarten, elementary, and middle school. Fun, easy, no prep and low prep. Perfect for emergency and maternity leave.

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Math meets art in these converging line paintings. A great art project for kids, teens, and adults alike.

Kandinsky Inspired Heart Art -The perfect art project for exploring color-mixing, that doubles up as a cool kid-made gift for Valentine's Day & Mother's Day

A really fun way to engage kids in math learning. How to draw heart tessellations three ways for a STEAM Valentine's Day math art project.

A significant challenge teachers face is meeting the needs of all their many and varied students. As a 'regular ed' kid in middle school in the early 70's I knew there were 'special ed' kids down the hall in a classroom I glanced into but never entered as we marched in line to the gym. In gym class, during the dreaded square dancing unit, I came face to face with sweaty palmed boys but never the boy from the special ed room who knew the names of every shark that swam the ocean. I knew he knew this, because one day his class line passed my class line on the way to the gym. He was reciting. I was amazed. I had a vague, unconsidered idea that the kids in that room were there because they COULDN'T: couldn't behave, or do, or think, or become. Flash forward thirty-five years. The words, "Every Child Can Learn," legacy of Bush era No Child Left Behind education policy, while not always creating welcome or helpful policy and legislation has had a positive influence in the way we think about educating kids. Even if we don't always know how to do it, even if we sometimes know, but don't have the man power or the technology to do it, even if it sometimes gets misinterpreted as Every Child Should Learn the same thing at the same pace. This fall, at my school, we are working with an increasingly diverse group of students in larger numbers than ever before, with the smallest staff we've ever had. Teaching students who are hungry, tired, stressed out, distracted, or bored has always been part of the job, but in decades past there was general, societal acceptance that some of these students would move on at 12 or 16 or 18 to work on the farm or factory or family business. This way of doing business worked for many, if not most students, in the one room school house of the 19th century as well as the suburban schools of the twentieth century but for the 21st? Not so much. I don't know the solution to the big problems in education today, but I do think a lot about what I need to do to reach all kids in my little corner of the world. In addition to students with a wide variety of learning challenges and needs, I have five deaf/hard of hearing students. Searching for a way to engage and involve these students, especially, I invited them to teach the rest of the class how to sign the alphabet in preparation for posing and drawing over-sized hands. This lesson evolved over several weeks to include creating henna hand designs and large wire sculptures around a theme of "Helping Hands." This past week I stood back and watched industrious groups of students exploring possibilities with chicken wire, plaster, paint and papier mache' all the while talking and sometimes arguing, but also laughing as they worked together to solve problems of space and form, balance and stability, texture and color and ideas and concepts. 100% engagement. A rarity, unfortunately, when so many students are struggling with so much economic fall-out at home and social fall-out in their budding teenage lives. Grand Rapid's third annual ArtPrize event was wallpaper to our lessons having contributed to the growing notion in our community that making art is cool and it's for everyone. On recent Mondays students came into class buzzing with what they'd seen and experienced visiting ArtPrize with their families. As students lined up to show their planning sketches to me, I struggled with my own art school, high culture ideas. Don't just illustrate, I exhorted, see if you can find a way to use negative and positive space mindfully, to engage the viewer in a deeper way, with layers of meaning. Kids walked away puzzled. I want to encourage my students' ideas, but push just a bit for them to think more critically, engage more fully, dig deeper into their concepts. Check back soon to see finished sculptures. To be honest, I didn't expect much with the finished sculptures. I was happy that the kids had reached our basic learning targets for the unit. I try to be all about process not product when it comes to art making. Chicken wire scratches were minimal and no one shot themselves or anyone else with the staple gun. Success! So, yesterday, as I took a breather from helping kids solve technical problems, and actually looked at their work I was blown away. These young teens, all, in spite of and because of their many and varied needs have created works to rival anything at ArtPrize, from the mind, with heart and by hand. Passing kids in the hall, on the way to the gym, who knew what they knew, or could do or create, or become once given a chance?

Hello Inksters! Happy Valentine’s Day! As we exchange cards and sweets with classmates and friends, it’s also a great time to think about what we love. To help you think about love, thi…

Students will love this! They can use their knowledge of color theory to make different color schemes on their op art hearts. See some tips on how to do this.

Jim Dine Hearts is one of the most beloved themes, central to the artist’s historical body of work. … A self-described romantic artist, Dine has embraced the heart as a template through…

This art lesson plan provides the opportunity to explore warm and cool colors scheme as well as coloring techniques. Ideal for Valentines Day or a Collaborative project. 15 page PDF printable Art Lesson Plan for Elementary school. This art lesson plan is ideal for revising warm and cool colors with Middle School students. This Warm and Cool Colored Hearts Art Lesson is an Middle School Art Lesson Plan that is easy to teach and make. BONUS Color Wheel and Color Wordsearch included - use with this art lesson plan or for a sub lesson or for fast finishers. This Art Lesson Plan is suitable for student from Grade 4 to Grade 6, but could also be used with older students. Lesson plan instructions and examples are included. Templates in two sizes are included. This Warm and Cool Colored Hearts Art Lesson Plan includes suggestions for other ways to use this project. Learning Intentions and Success Criteria are included. Visual Rubrics is included: use for teacher evaluation, peer review, or self evaluation. Did you know that by leaving a review you can earn points to spend on more great TPT resources :) Happy Dance!!! All graphics created by Kerry Daley ©2023 You may also like these Art Lesson Plans: Insect Themed Art Lesson Plans Monsters in Jumpers Monsters, Robots and Aliens - Bundle Cut and Color Aliens Cut and Color Monsters Mechanimals Collage Project Surrealist Animal Collage Project Don’t miss out on freebies, flash sales and more! Follow me on TPT Terms and Conditions Copyright © Kerry Daley. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.

I love having the kids do personalized work at the beginning of each school year-- and typically I start out with some sort of self-portrait. Well, 10 years of doing that for seven classes each day for a week is really mundane, so I decided to switch it up this year. With my third graders I am doing these "identity grids" and they love them! We start out with a 12"x12" sheet of paper and fold it into 16 squares. We talk about identities. The most obvious part of your identity is your name--so we write our names in "bubble letters" jumbled about through the paper. One letter per square. We then talk about other things that make us unique, that make us individuals--and brainstorm those ideas on the board (favorite holidays, foods, artists, hobbies, etc). They then draw a different symbol in each of the remaining squares. The above example is mine, but I can't wait for the kids to finish their so I can show you! They are all so colorful and unique...and I'm learning a little something new about each child! So fun!

As some of y'all might know because I've been talking about it nonstop (I often wonder just how I have acquired so many nice friends that allow me to ramble on and on without complaint. My guess is that they've formed some sort of support group), I've been out of school for several days due to el jury duty-o. You can see what I wore here cuz you know you wanna. Anywho, knowing that I was gonna be out for so long, I knew I'd have to leave some legit sub plans. So I created a couple of videos and was super pleased to see that both the kids and the subs were happy with the result. AND LOOK! Check out what they made whilst I was doin' my civic duty! This is JUST ONE of the MANY huge banners that the kids created! Each child, kindergarten through fourth, created a quarter of a heart. Students with extra time then worked on making the letters. I was so excited to see them today that I used my planning time to hot glue them into place. To do that, I "borrowed" a roll of bulletin board paper from our work room, unrolled it onto my art room floor and set to work a-gluing. Like I said, this is just one big banner...the kids also created ones with letters that spell out SMILE, HAPPY and PEACE. They'll be going up on a large wall in our school cafeteria. But this one I was so stoked about that I grabbed a couple of teacher friends in the hallway and had them help me slap it up on the wall this afternoon. Our inspo for this project came from the artist Romero Britto and the art teacher Jenny K! Jenny has a great drawing sheet that features Britto and his designs. Knowing that I was going to be out several days, I really wanted a project that the kids could work on happily and successfully and be something that could brighten up and spread the good word of LOVE throughout our school! On the first day I was out, I left this video for my sub to share with the students. I've never done video'ed sub plans before but I gotta tell ya, I'm NEVER going back to paper plans! This was fun and easy for both the sub and kids. And a happy sub is one that spreads the good word. I heard from my admin and teacher buds that both of my subs were thrilled to work in my room. Of course, I took the guess work out of it and made their day cake! Today was my first day back and it's also my busiest of days. You now how it feels when you've been gone for many days, you feel completely out of the loop! I really felt relieved coming back knowing that my room was going to be in order and that my students would continue this project. Here are my kindergarten friends coloring away. Many of you asked me about the art stix I refer to in the video. My students have a set of these and they are well loved. They are made by Prisma and are essentially the led of a color pencil. The colors are fantastically vibrant and the kids love using them. My younger students, kindergarten through first, created the bottom of the hearts while my older ones did the top. The reason behind this is that my older students have longer art classes and therefore more time to work on the big spaces. The papers the kids used are 12" squares. My sub and I used templates to create the thick line diagonal line that you see as well as the heart hump line (I know there's prolly a better word then heart hump but you knew what I was talking about, didn't you?!). So that they could spot their part of the heart later, the student's name was written along the edge of their design. Once I started laying out the hearts I felt like they needed a little something more. So I flipped some upside down and noticed the diamond negative shape that was created. It was then I got the idea to have the kids create letters for those spaces. That's what this follow up video is all about... I put the sub in charge of tracing letters and the kids cut them out before decorating them. This was such a successful sub plan that even though I'm not finished with assembling all of the pieces, I just had to share it with you right away! You know, in case you wanna do something like this for Valentine's Day. It's definitely a no-fuss type of project. Definitely one to consider at the start of the new school year when you want to introduce all of the elements of art and start your year with that WOW! factor. If you are interested in more of my lil videos, you can subscribe to my youtube channel here. In other fun and exciting news, you can hear my podcast interview with the INCREDIBLE Patty Palmer of Deep Space Sparkle, here! And if you do this lesson, please let me know, I'd love to hear your tips, tricks and see your student's end result!