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There's a Dragon in my Art Room

Student Art Show 2013 - I spent the day subbing for my replacement yesterday, while she set up for today's annual student art show. She and the high school art teacher said it w...
55 minutes ago
gretchen's art blog

Beetles K8 - Five year olds. This is another class who are dealing with 'mini beasts' as part of their enquiry. The warm up observational drawing today wa...
1 hour ago
Art is Basic-- Art Teacher Blog

Cardboard Creations and a Blog Layout Review - 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... The post Cardboar...
3 hours ago
Georgetown Elementary Art Blog

Second Grade Story Quilts - Second grade artists have been studying the work of American artist Faith Ringgold. They were intrigued by her famous Story Quilts and enjoyed reading the...
4 hours ago
Artful Artsy Amy

Dispensing Materials and Clean Up in the Middle School Art Room - My classroom*My day by the numbers:* 980 # of students taking Art yearly 245 # of students taking Art quarterly 035 # of students per class (approxima...
7 hours ago
Dryden Art - Fugleblog

The Art is Walking Around - [...]
7 hours ago
shine brite zamorano

a few more faces. - A couple more 4th grade classes painted their Kimmy Cantrell inspired faces today. The kids are doing a great job with this project. Also, the painting tod...
8 hours ago
Miss Young's Art Room

Kindergarten Peacocks - My kindergarten students got their introduction to printmaking by printing their thumb on these peacocks' tail feathers! Then, we added a little bit of spa...
10 hours ago
Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists

A bite out of summer - This adorable illustration by artist Ben Javens was the inspiration for our last week of art activity. I had originally seen this image on Pinterest, the...
12 hours ago
Art with Ms. Gram

Australian Aboriginal Dot Art (4th) - Teacher SampleEQ: What is Aboriginal Australian art? To begin with I showed my students a PowerPoint to first show them where Australia is on a map, and th...
13 hours ago
ARTipelago

Paper Cranes - I don't know about you, but as the school year winds down, I'm always in search of quick, 1- or 2-day projects that are still meaningful and fit curricular...
15 hours ago
artisan des arts

Roosters inspired by roosters inspired by Le Coq - The title isn't a mistake - these roosters aren't inspired by Picasso's Le Coq - they are inspired by a project another teacher did inspired by Picasso's ...
15 hours ago
tinyartroom

Samburu Necklaces - I came across Once Upon An Art Room’s project on Pinterest and thought it was a great idea. It’s a project that I’ve never even thought about attempting be...
16 hours ago
me arts ed

Another Arts Teacher’s Story: Susan Jones - This is the 32nd in a series of blog posts telling arts teacher’s stories. The first 19 were told last year by the phase I Maine Arts Assessment Initiative...
19 hours ago
Princess Artypants

Prehistoric Art and a Cave out of Gym Mats! - The Grade 1's are finishing up a unit on Change. This was a perfect opportunity to talk about how art has changed over the years and where the concept of ...
21 hours ago
Adventures of an Art Teacher

My Favorite Construction Paper - I remember when I first ordered Tru-Ray sulphite construction paper- what a huge difference over the cheaper stuff that fades after a week in the hallway...
1 day ago
Draw The Line At

embracing a new dream - Four years ago when I graduated from college the last thing on my to-do list was to go back for round two. College drained me in an emotional and yet beaut...
1 day ago
Thomas Elementary Art

Clay Castles with Coat of Arms by 4th Grade - Every art teacher has projects that are yearly favorites. Students would go absolutely nuts if they didn't get to do "that project." This is one of those ...
1 day ago
Mini Matisse

8th grade, Jewelry this quarter... - This quarter we have a little more time for our jewelry unit. Students will be making all three bracelets. Here are the recourses that I have found helpf...
1 day ago
Mona Lisa Lives Here

This Is The Day! -
1 day ago
Dream. Pray. Create.

This is why I paint and why I should be painting a lot more often - This weekend provided the first opportunities in months for me to really invest some time and paint in my home studio. Here are the fruits of my labor... ...
1 day ago
Dream Painters

Free-Form Pots - Lachlan (Yr 4) For our pottery piece this term we made free-form pots. We started with slabs of clay, which we decorated by pressing on leaves and string t...
1 day ago
Ms. Motta's Mixed Media

Incorporating Thinking Maps into Your Art Lesson - Recently our faculty went through a training on thinking maps. I wasn't present for the training itself, (I was in Fort Worth at NAEA), but my colleagues b...
2 days ago
Fine Lines

Our Painted Gardens - Using the colorful painted papers that they made last week (HERE), kindergarteners cut and glued their own garden collage patterned after Lois Ehlert's *P...
2 days ago
Art Room 104

Community Helpers Cityscape - It's taken a while to get these done, but we finally did it! About a month back, the librarian asked me if I could do a project with 2nd graders that rela...
2 days ago
K – 6 Art

LIFELIKE: Trompe L’oeil Sculpture (and More) - Trompe l’oeil means ‘fools the eye’ in French. Maybe you have seen a painting or sidewalk chalk art that looked so real you felt you could walk right into ...
2 days ago
Art in the Middle...school

He did it! - Ashton did it...He is Artsonia's Artist of the Week for his age group. Thank you to everyone who voted for him!
2 days ago
Kids Artists

Shout it out, like Anwy Warhol - *Made by a student of grade 6* You need: 1. coloured paper 10 by 10 cm, four different colours 2. crayons 3. scissors 4. glue Talk a...
3 days ago
Art With Mr Hall

Either Or - I find that incorporating choice is a great way to help students be enthusiastic about an art lesson—often the more prescriptive a lesson is, the harder ...
3 days ago
Artistic Freedom

Thank You Wayne Thiebaud! - Not finished yet, but wanted to show off the amazing detail (from a KINDERGARTENER)! My smaller school has a penny war to help raise money ...
4 days ago
Art Lessons

Shaving Cream Fun Peacocks! - This week, second graders are finishing their marbleized peacock paintings. It has been so fun to watch their reactions to the shaving cream which is a HU...
4 days ago
My Messy Art Room

2nd grade group project - So I gave my 2nd grader all the scraps of cardboard. And had them color lines and designs on them. Then we glued them down. It turned out great.
4 days ago
One Happy Art Teacher

Kindergarten Paints Hens with Chicks - As I've said before, I *love *painting with kindergarten! How adorable is this? This is a little lesson I dreamed up several years ago while observing a ...
5 days ago
Lines, Dots, and Doodles

Art Advice Needed - My colleagues and I have been pondering ways to make the school more beautiful. One suggestion was to paint the ceiling tiles in the school. (You know, ...
5 days ago
Ms. Lake's Mess to Masterpiece!

Cake Designing *Thiebaud Style* - My third graders loved designing cakes, learning about form, experimenting with blending oil pastel colors, and being inspired by the work of Wayne Thiebau...
6 days ago
The Art Teacher's Closet

In the Art Room - Tulip Fields - This was a great lesson for second grade! It covered creating tints, landscape painting, and perspective. We used tempera for the grass and clouds and oi...
6 days ago
Keeping the Mistakes

More clay (less agony, more thrill) - This week has been more positive in the clay production. My third bisque firing was once again successful — no broken pieces!! Today 2nd graders painted t...
1 week ago
Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue!

I Scream for Ice Cream - Materials: - Construction Paper - Scissors - Glue This is actually one of those projects that I repeat often. It's very simple but very affective...
1 week ago
The Little Art Teacher | A journey through elementary art.

The end is near - I can feel it. That end-of-the-year-I-will-only-see-my-kids-three-more-times weirdness that sets in around this time. It is hard to plan for this time of y...
1 week ago
Organized Chaos

ArtShow2013 - ArtShow2013 was a huge success! I don't even know where to start. I like to have students pick their best work from the year to display at art show - but...
1 week ago
Make it Artwork

Spray away - I have been having my advanced art class create a stencil and then use spray paint to paint in the details. They wre very excited to get to use spray pain...
1 week ago
Use Your Coloured Pencils

Cat Collages - I think these grade one cat collages are totally adorable. The inspiration was this greeting card image *(left)* from etsy store* 'Glad Dog by LizzyCla...
1 week ago
(the way cool) Donald Art Room

Gyotaku and Science Integration - I love gyotaku, Japanese fish printing. When I taught in NJ, I used a real fish. For the entire grade level. All week long. Take a minute and let that...
1 week ago
Create Art With Me!

Graffiti Names...ooh, Edgy! - *Here in southern NH we aren't exactly urban or edgy. Our town is more "quaint" and "quiet" and is best known for its Colonial feel. Graffiti can be seen h...
1 week ago
Art Education Blog for K-12 Art Teachers | SchoolArtsRoom

The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market and Folk Art Extravaganza - Our Huichol friend Cilau Valadez, shown here with Stevie Mack and me is going to visit our SchoolArts/CRIZMAC Folk Art Extravaganza group in July in Sant...
1 week ago
Art Matters

Coat of Arms-4th Grade - FINALLY! I found something that my stubborn 4th graders are actually interested in. Interested enough to follow all of the steps, and spend a reasonable ...
2 weeks ago
Once upon an Art Room

Glorious Holidays...... - So, this isn't exactly an art post....but, I thought I would share some photographs (another big passion of mine), that I took at this year's Fairbridge Fo...
2 weeks ago
ART with Mrs. Smith

Inspired by Famous Paintings - The above image is from an art magazine..... And below are projects my high school students recently completed based on famous paintings. Isn't it the be...
2 weeks ago
Art Project Girl

Recycled Cardboard City - We had the best time today making a Cardboard City! We have been studying relief sculptures in clay and continued in *Cardboard*. Lowly cardboard became a ...
2 weeks ago
come to the ART side

Tips for Surviving Clay in Elementary school - I've only been teaching art in elementary for four years now and every year I am learning something new, or learning from my mistakes/past experiences. Du...
2 weeks ago
My Adventures In Positive Space

Art Instruction makes the Nightly News! - I have to share a newscast I just heard about featuring an elementary school in Roxbury, Mass. The headline reads:* Principal fires security guards to hire...
2 weeks ago
Bulletin Boards to Remember

Learning Gives You Wings to Fly - "Very Hungry Bulletin Boards," by the blog Artistic Geniuses. She has multiple boards to go with the theme of The Hungry Catepillar. This one is my favo...
3 weeks ago
we heart art

POP Art POPsicles! - My Kindergartners are learning about different genres and styles of art and they recently made these absolutely ADORABLE Pop Art POPsicles! We used a 12x18...
3 weeks ago
ART for 1170

Arts Festival Day - Lots and lots of wonderful colorful circles. Mosaics Miss Swiderski receiving a group hug from Second Grade students! We will miss her when she goes back t...
5 weeks ago
Ms. Malone's Art Room

School-wide art show - I know I haven't blogged in a while, my friend Ted (www.artwithmre.blogspot) has been bugging and bugging me about it, but I have been very busy and a litt...
1 month ago
Art at Becker Middle School

Keep Art in (your) Heart... - This is my last post before my maternity leave which starts tomorrow. I wanted to give a peak of the watercolor heart project we started although the finis...
1 month ago
PAINTED PAPER

Creating Murals 101 - I have been asked many times "How do you create a large mural?" I find murals to be the perfect expression of kid art. It gives them a large area to put dow...
1 month ago
Art Room with a View

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SharpieWoman

Hundertwasser Landscapes - Geez, I hope I spelled that dude's name correctly..........It's a big mouthful of German, that's for sure! I'm sure I saw this on Pinterest but if this was...
2 months ago

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