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Cardboard Shape Art Project

By Marcia Beckett | January 4, 2020 - 1:49 pm |July 5, 2024 abstract, recycled art, second grade

Happy New Year! I hope you all have had a relaxing and restful holidays and are ready for the new year. Today I have some cardboard shape pictures to share with you that my 2nd graders created. We first looked at the artist Marcus Oakley and his cardboard shape pictures for inspiration. Students could create an abstract picture or a picture that represented something. We used pre-cut shapes as well as shapes the students cut on their own. Thinner cardboard … Read more… →

Printing with Cardboard: 1st Grade Printmaking Project

By Marcia Beckett | July 20, 2014 - 12:26 pm |July 5, 2024 1st grade, printmaking

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Printing with Cardboard: 1st Grade Printmaking Project

Are you looking for a fun and easy printmaking activity with your youngest students? This one is always a hit and allows the students to be creative and expressive. I saw the idea to print with cardboard from Thinking with a Line.

Cardboard Creations and a Blog Layout Review

By Marcia Beckett | May 21, 2013 - 8:24 pm |July 5, 2024 art teacher tips, blogging, sculpture, second grade

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A cardboard model of a building with yellow windows and a photo of a person’s face on the wall.

Hello all! Wow, summer is almost here! It’s hard to believe, right? I entered a blog giveaway to receive a free layout review from a web designer. I won! She posted the review on Blacksburgbelle’s blog. Bottom line: reduce the clutter. I think it was very useful and gave me a lot to think about! Maybe you will get some ideas from her review. This will be a little project to work on during the summer. Building with cardboard and … Read more… →

Printed Faces with 1st Grade

By Marcia Beckett | February 2, 2013 - 2:25 am |July 5, 2024 1st grade, printmaking

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Child's crayon drawing of a smiling person with black hair, red flower ear clips, and an orange and black outfit.

Printing with Cardboard To print faces, cut cardboard rectangles. Dip in paint and stamp to make faces. We colored these with crayons and added words and letters with rubber stamps. Aren’t they expressive?