I?ve seen some really beautiful decorations made from just clear contact paper and tissue paper. 1. Cut two matching rectangles of clear contact paper...
Save your old pencils to make a very folk-artsy looking star for the holidays. I used mini wood sticks to first make a frame, and then the pencils wer...
You can give your painting skills a practice while you make a pretty sign for your home or classroom. 1. I recommend starting with watercolor paper ...
Need a follow up activity for a Thanksgiving lesson? Here?s a turkey coloring page that I think offers more creative fun than your average bird. ? Vie...
I must give credit for this clever ship idea to Parenting Magazine. I loved how realistic it looked on their website, it just didn’t come with a...
My Turkey on a Stick project continues, and as I expected, my students came up with some amazing creations today. The new twist was that they started ...
Have you heard of paper bag journals? I made mine with just three lunch bags that were folded in half and then stapled down the spine. An extended sta...
A couple of tweaks to an old project turned out to be a real favorite with 1st ? 5th graders last week. I learned that this kitty just needed to ̷...
This scratch art technique is called ?sgraffito?, and it works well with turkeys drawings that need lots of lines on their feathers. 1. I made a simpl...
Here?s the final project for my Matchbox Art Class, a snowman winter wonderland. I?m so happy I stumbled across this type of art over on Pinterest bec...
Here?s a fun cartoon drawing project that includes a little perspective lesson too. I used Crayola Oil Pastels, for those that like this color palette...
Mosaic art is the creation of images with stone, glass or other materials. The earliest examples have been found at a temple in Mesopotamia, which mea...
I like using grids to organize art and fill a page at the same time. It eliminates the ?tiny drawing on a large paper? syndrome. 1. I used my printer ...
I find that sometimes, art projects just need to evolve. This started with students making a kind of turkey collage on a stick so they could play or d...
My goal this year is to fully diagram lessons steps on my board as often as possible. That means not just writing them down, but illustrating them as ...
Just in time for Halloween, how to draw a very easy, but very cute black cat. My drawing was colored with Crayola Crayons, the background being a blen...
My Art Journal class is focusing on themes that describe their life as they know it. Here is a collage page in my Strathmore Art Journal Kit that I ma...
Donate just $5 to my Haitian art teacher drive and you will receive this brand new 10-page PDF coloring book for free. This book is not available for ...
After watching hundreds of students make mosaics this week, I have to say that this one really stood out. Luke, a 4th grader, made this very simple ye...
This is a shout out and thank you to a talented little kinder artist named Hudson. He tirelessly drew dozens of characters for me over the weekend, an...
Here?s a few simple steps to follow to make anyone?s name look super hip and hand drawn. It works great for any kind of heading you may need or want &...
Students were asked to just let crayons and paint do what they do best ? make patterns and lots of bright colors. Here are the only guidelines I asked...
Students traced an old CD to help draw the head of this not-so-scary vampire. The hair could be shortened for a boy drawing, and the simple red cape m...
Having trouble finding orange paper in the store this time of year? That happened to me when I needed some to decoupage with, so I made my own. Coffee...
I’ve found that students love to turn these paper chains into headbands. And with Thanksgiving right around the corner, it’s the perfect t...
My afterschool students practiced their lettering with acetate tracings, mounted to photo backgrounds. 1. I printed out this quote ?Every C...
This was a successful project that I tried a few years ago. Students used symmetry to make their owl look as real (and cute!) as possible. . 1. To mak...
Sometimes the art my students make just makes my jaw drop. This comes from yesterday?s Match Box Art class, where I proposed students make a bird hous...
This ingenious idea for making turkeys from old food boxes comes from My Plum Pudding. It?s a great use of those colorful coated boxes that I love to ...
My students painted some very free-form monsters today. Sometimes I think it?s fun to just draw things completely from your imagination. Thank you Clo...
