Add a little holiday color with this pipe cleaner Christmas tree craft. It’s super quick, and actually doesn’t even require glue as the pi...
Here?s an easy way to make a very yummy looking cake sculpture, thanks to all the great food-looking colors that Model Magic comes in. Their natural s...
Here is a look at my how to paint a pumpkin instructions, if you’d like a peek at one of my classroom boards. I wanted students to see how easil...
My students have been making these Witch Hat Scratch Art images all week. And as I mentioned before, I’ve learned that as long as they make two ...
When students learn how to draw a haunted house, they can practice their architectural drawing while changing just a few elements to make their houses...
To make some super Day of the Dead Sharpie art, try coloring on aluminum foil. Besides the fact that that colors just glide on, the foil adds a richne...
Thanks to Glued to my Crafts for this great idea of how to make a tractor from popsicle sticks. I just tried to making it all out of wood, and thanks ...
If you can draw an oval, curves and triangles, then you can most definitely draw a tiger face. This guy is composed of some simple shapes that even mo...
Welcome readers to my Sharpie Blog Roll! The date for the release of my very first art book, “Sharpie Art Projects for Kids? is coming up on N...
In case you need to learn how to draw an Alpaca, here’s the perfect tutorial for you. Alpacas have been domesticated for thousands of years by t...
You can make your own paper mache cardboard letters and help recycle some trash at the same time. No need to buy those expensive premade ones from the...
I love how this witch hat scratch art pushes students to color heavily. It takes two heavy coats of coloring to get the layers needed to scratch, so y...
This Halloween cat painting has a pretty high cute factor, and is easy to draw too. It is also very symmetrical, which is a big plus for young artists...
Here’s a fun way to get some symmetrical drawing practice, and create a fun, spooky image too. Give students half of a printed spider and have t...
The best reason to make this mosaic art is the ease take comes with using tape. Anyone who has tried before to make a mosaic with paper, knows how har...
These line art leaves a great project when studying the elements of art, specifically the power of lines. The technique could be used with any number ...
Veterans Day, Nov. 11th, is the day our country sets aside to thank and honor all those who served honorably in the military – in wartime or pea...
I used two laws of perspective to help give this travel journal page drawing some depth. With distance, similar shapes appear to get smaller, and colo...
This easy ceramic cupcake project is my very favorite, which I save every year for Mother?s Day for kinders. I?m pretty sure though that it has lots o...
To learn how to paint a Crankenstein, you must first read Samantha Berger’s book on how you might spot such a creature, and how they come to be....
My first graders were shown how to draw a bat, but only after learning some more about them in this amazing new book I found “Nightsong?. It bea...
In my search for some new art ideas, I found an extreme close up of a black cat face that got me thinking. If you draw the face super large, then you ...
I think I found the beginning of a great plaster bandage craft project, I just need to decide how I want to finish it. There are a couple dozen of the...
You can draw a pickup truck by putting a few simple shapes together. Download my tutorial and draw one like my sample, or better yet, color and design...
This Koi fish watercolor project has been one of my most popular pins on Pinterest since it went up a couple of years ago. Here it is again for those ...
My favorite part of these little Halloween boxes is the color combination. I love the soft orange and matte black and shiny silver. Fortunately, they ...
I found this drawing witch feet idea in some stock art Halloween illustrations. It offers colorful seasonal fun, and some good symmetrical drawing pra...
This tree silhouette art is a multimedia project using chalk pastel and tempera cake paint. Each media does what they do best ? make fuzzy backgrounds...
You can draw a Vampire bat without it being scary. In fact, they can be downright funny like this guy. Here?s a tutorial on how to draw this very frie...
A fun way to make a bat painting as the permanent marker makes it easy to draw and color, and the coffee filters and watercolors never fail to amaze m...
