Why Do African Women Carry Baskets on Their Heads: Another Fun Art Lesson by Josey's Art School

Fun Art Project with Sunflowers: How the Sunflower Colors our World by Josey's Art School

Banners are Fun to Make and Help Build Concentration: Another Art Project for Kids

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I love the look of banners in the classroom.  We have done different themes depending on the season.

This set of banners as delightful!  You can find instructions on how to make these can be found: CLICK HERE

Tulips and Daffodils Make Lovely Art Project Ideas

 

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I found these wonderful renderings of tulips that has inspired me to come up with a flower project for my art students.  Make sure and subscribe to my Youtube channel to get the project right when it goes live.  

ONE of my favorite things to do is to find art on Pinterest and to deconstruct them to allow for a student as young as kindergarten to enter into the conversation with pencil and paint.  

THIS VIDEO offer a more mixed media approach to flowers:

The Value of Boredom to Spark Creativity

 

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I love working on a series of paintings and I want to start incorporating this idea with my art students.  I remember when I was younger, I read a book where the protagonist had an art teacher who instructed her students to draw an apple for 100 days in a row.  I like this idea of allowing the mind to 'bore' itself into focusing on the nuances of an item.  I think we underestimate the power of boredom in a child's life.

Keeping with the nature them of this post (kinda), here is a video showing you how to create a bird art journaling page - which of course can ALWAYS be created on a larger canvas.

 

Do you Know Grumpy Cat? Kids love Him!

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Are your kids as obsessed with Grumpy Cat? My daughter has a teacher who has his very own grumpy cat that he incorporates into his 4th grade class curriculum.  Can I just say there are A TON of teachers in Public Schools that are doing the work SO SO WELL.

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Germany and Cuckoo Clocks and Water Lilies Kids Art Lessons

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Let me introduce you to Cassie Stephens of the blog series "What the Art Teacher wore" - find her HERE

Her quest for developing young artists and create art lessons that she shares with the world is beyond inspiring.  This project is a nod to my home country Germany and you know I am going to give it a go.

Here is our nod to Monet and his water lilies - Enjoy friends.

Henri Rousseau and His Jungle Adventures Or a Tour of the Rain Forest

 

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We are always on the lookout to create art that does not HAVE to be incredibly colorful.  In fact, there are times where I invite the students to practice RESTRAINT - using only 2-4 colors.  

This lesson would be great for a rain forest discussion or a study on Henri Rousseau.

I have a video of our version of a snake art lesson:

Diego Rivera and the Study of Drawing People

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One of the blogs that really inspired me to go for it in the area of teaching art classes to kids is Patty over at Deep Space Sparkle.  Here is a lesson I am going to try for sure.  My students are always interested in getting a chance to draw people and this seems like a nice intro lesson.  

Here is a fun mixed media lesson that I have done many times and the students love it!  They get to play with color by working with scrapbook paper and it helps invite any studnet who might be timid with color to give it a go.

Spring Showers Umbrella Color Wheel Art lesson for Kids

I seriously enjoy this fun way to teach kids about the color wheel.  Now you may decide to simply create this project and allow for the students to paint the mood of the day using paints or you can add this as a Spring theme art project.  Whatever you decide to do, I found that the raindrop creation was the most DIVINE step of this piece.

I created an art video using feathers that would also compliment the idea of creating a color wheel in an interesting and unique way.  Let me know how you created your projects!

Spring or Fall Colorful Trees Art Lesson for Kids

One of the easiest ways to teach drawing landscapes is through this simple activity of dividing the page into two and creating above and below the line.  With this autumn tree you have the opportunity to create with a ton of color.  What I find so lovely about living in Virginia is just how colorful the Spring Trees are.  Having lived most of the life in Arizona, seeing these delights feels like I am in a Dream land.  

This lesson can be created with crayons if you want to keep it simple and as always you have the ability to challenge more advanced students by inviting them to create shadows and vary the mood in the sky.  

I have a fun art video that builds on color and also includes a message on self esteem - hope you enjoy it!



 

Alien Spaceship Art Lesson for Kids

 Kiddos are fascinated with Outer Space!  When I was a Reggio Emilio teacher, we spent an entire month learning about the ins and outs of the Solar System.  Inevitably we always have a conversation about aliens and so this is a fun way to play with paint and imagination.

For this project I would use 9x12 paper and break this down as a series of shapes.  Lots of simple patterns here and more advanced artists can add more detail if they so desire.

While I do not have a video about Outer Space (Yet!), I have one that hearkens to the sea...