Art Dish

I've noticed this project on many art blogs. I was always curious, this year I decided to give it a try with my first grade. I loved it...

This is one of my favorite projects to do with first grade! They love it and the results are adorable!!! We discuss facial features and plac...

Analogous Color Weaving In reviewing analogous colors with my fourth graders, I decided to put a weaving twist with it. 1. review the col...

Sensational Still-Life I find that my older students have trouble drawing things large enough so we cheated a bit with this still-life...

March comes in like a lion... In follow-up to jungles in first grade, I have my second graders draw a lion on white 12x18 paper. I demonst...

Materials: Photos/books about tigers (first grade level); 6x9 white paper; Surprise! by Henri Rousseau; black crayon/oil pastel, orange tem...

Materials: 9x12 White paper Black tempera cake paint or watercolors Oil pastels 6x9 black paper Book: Legend of the Chinese Dragon by Marie ...

It's Dr. Seuss's birthday this week. I read "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish to my second grade. We painted one piec...

Elementary schools celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss. This is a project that I do with kindergarten. I read the book "There's...

In 5th grade I have my students create their own personal coat of arms. (This is a much anticipated project) I used the book "Design Yo...