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....
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 ...
To learn how to draw a fall tree, try thinking of it as a series of branches, and not just a fluffy shape that sits on a stick. MATERIALS ? Multimedia...
Looking for inexpensive student portfolios? Tired of stuffing your student’s art in floppy folders that don’t stand up and are hard to wor...
Cute animals are always fun to draw, but here’s how to draw a gorilla with a little attitude. He is made up of just a few simple shapes and if y...
I found this drawing witch feet idea in some stock art Halloween illustrations. It offers colorful seasonal fun, and some good symmetrical drawing pra...
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...
I?ve been inspired by scrapbook artists and the magazine collage art they often create. This project lets students get creative and colorful with the ...
If you want to learn how to draw an apple, you don’t have to settle for just a flat shape. Add a white highlight and shaded side and bam! Pretty...
Here is one way to make easy snowflake art with paint and paper. Try blending several shades of blue on good watercolor paper and sprinkle salt to add...
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...
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...
A quick look at how some of my 4th graders made their apple drawings last week. I love how the oil pastel made a very thick edge, and literally helped...
You just can?t beat the color and precision you get when you make fall leaf Sharpie art with the new brush tip variety. The markers actually work a lo...
I tried this ceramic owl project out this week, and loved the simplicity of it. I have learned that children really enjoy working with clay, but class...
Turn a simple drawing into an Abstract Art Cat by just dividing the page into quarters, and changing colors accordingly. Neat coloring is called for, ...
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...
This batik pumpkin art is meant to imitate the real thing, a resist-dyeing process that originated in Indonesia. Children can simulate the look of cra...
A few key features will help you learn how to draw Frida Kahlo like a pro. She was a Mexican self-portrait artist and feminist icon who was married to...
Here is a very simple but very cute way to draw a polar bear. He is made of just a few simple, symmetrical shapes, but if you arrange them the way I h...
