I love using children’s books in my lessons about art. Even the older kids like being read to. It’s a way to spark their interest in art, encourage a love of reading and make their learning connections much richer. And, it doesn’t really take that much time to incorporate a short story in the period. I know class time for art is limited, so you want to make the most of every minute. Consider just reading a portion of a … Read more…
Puppets were made during my summer art class! For this project, I drew a puppet template, which the kids traced and cut out from felt. They cut out 2 pieces, a front and back. Then, I hot glued them together. The kids then cut out other pieces of felt and added googly eyes to decorate their puppet. They attached these pieces with Elmer’s glue. We added a large stick inside also to hold the puppet up. We made these really … Read more…
Daria and I went to the Madison Children’s Museum today. She was scared of pretty much everything. I don’t know why, maybe it was because it was loud and crazy there. This was one thing she did really enjoy. It would probably not be too hard to set up something like this at home or a preschool. Painting on a large window.They had different color paintsspray bottlesand window wipers to play with! So much fun for little ones! http://www.theimaginationtree.com/2011/06/its-playtime-10-summer-time-fun.html
This is my first installment of Art Teacher Showcase, where art teachers across the world will be sharing with you their favorite lesson and invite you to visit their blog. If you would like to participate, see the bottom of this post. The first art teacher is Stephanie Clegg!My blog is called Mrs. Clegg’s Class blog. My blog started out as a place for students to find out information about assignments and due dates. It has since involved into more … Read more…
Paint Chips! What a cool way to use PAINT CHIPS! I might just use this next year when my kindergartners design castles. Face Jugs! I did a lesson very similar to this when I was student teaching.. we called them Face Vases. I should try this lesson again.
Does anyone else look at their stats and become confused by them? One of my pages, the Clay Viking Ship lesson was viewed about 800 more times than any of the other lesson plan pages. I didn’t realize clay viking ships were so popular! 🙂 Of course, the blog directory was a big hit, receiving the most page views.
In my summer art class, we painted superhero canvases. The kids decided what superhero they would like to be and drew these on dry wax paper with markers and colored pencils. Then I used gel medium (on the backs of the paper) to adhere their images to the canvas board. Then, they used paints to paint a background. I love them!! There is a link to the dry wax paper at the bottom of this post. The ages of my … Read more…
I’m at 185 followers now! So exciting. Anyways, once I reach 200, I’m going to do a book giveaway. This summer I need to have a garage sale and sort through all my books on my book shelf. I, of course, have oodles of art books to get rid of, so I think I will offer a couple of them up here for a random follower! Please also sign up for my ART TEACHER SHOWCASE. Just send me info about … Read more…
Summer months are slow in blogland for teachers. Most art teachers are taking a break from teaching all day. Some are doing art camps or personal travels, but I know that in the summer months, not as many teachers post ideas, since we’re not teaching full time now. However, summer free time is a perfect time to research ideas, look at art eye candy, experiment and have fun! So, what I would like to do to help you out in … Read more…
I am teaching 2 days of art camp in the afternoons this week. On Monday, one of the projects we made were sun tiles. I picked up some glossy ceramic tiles from the hardware store. They looked at a few pictures of Mexican clay suns and they sketched their sun idea on a piece of paper. Then, using pencil and sharpie markers, they drew their sun on the tile. On the back of the tile I superglued a picture hanger. … Read more…
You may remember my last post about the magazine covers. Here are some that the students created. This was an end-of-the-year project and we didn’t have as much time to devote to the project as I would have liked. I think these turned out cute though!
So it’s summer time! I’ll still try to post a bit here and there. What are my plans? 1. I’m doing a mini art camp next Monday and Tuesday for 2 1/2 hours each day at school. I have 10 kids signed up! I will post pics of some of our art work. I have a TON of fun stuff planned. It’s going to be focused more on personal expression and creativity and the kids will have choices. I think … Read more…
We looked at the silhouette portraits of the early Americans as well as the paper cuttings of Hans Christian Anderson. The students drew with white colored pencil on their black paper, and then cut out their designs. Then, they flipped these over and glued them onto white paper (thus hiding any remaining white pencil lines.) This book below is a must-see for this project! We also looked at a book by Dr. Suess which features awesome silhouettes!! I happened to … Read more…
This was a 2 day project. We decided as a class what our theme would be for the banner. We chose the jungle. Next, we brainstormed types of animals in the jungle. Each kid signed up for one animal to make. We cut these out of felt. Next, I hot glued them on to a piece of burlap and green felt. The kids also raided the fabric scrap box for extra details.
