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Ideas for Early Finishers in Art

By Marcia Beckett | April 10, 2018 - 9:40 am |July 5, 2024 all grades, Art Ed Blogger's Network, art teacher tips, art teaching, free time activities

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Activities for Early Finishers" text on lined paper with doodles of stick figures and art supplies.

This month, the Art Ed Blogger’s Network is talking about how to enrich art class for students who finish early. I think this is an ongoing concern for most art teachers. Kids work at all different paces. Some students will finish their artwork lickety-split with half the class period left. Others will work on the same technique or project and spend multiple periods working on the same piece. So you will often have students at all different paces and at … Read more… →

The Value of Independent and Exploratory Art

By Marcia Beckett | April 13, 2016 - 9:24 am |July 5, 2024 free time activities

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A vibrant exploratory art painting with various geometric shapes and swirls in multiple colors, dominated by red, blue, and yellow.

I wanted to explain to you how our art class periods are structured. Students have art twice a week for 40 minutes. Typically, we start with a 5 minute art warm up drawing in a sketchbook. Then we move to instruction, demonstration, art history or literature connections. Finally, for the majority of the time, the students work on their artwork. Students work at all different paces. Some students work very quickly and others take as much as double the amount … Read more… →