Art Dish

We wrote a grant at my school to build a butterfly habitat.  Each class was given butterfly larvae to watch. When the...

I have fourth grade students divide their paper into 1/4's and trace a heart in each section. I teach a lesson on tints, shades and also...

Kindergarten students end up with a red heart to give away and a heart framed drawing of their family to take home. I fold red paper and pre...

Clay Hearts with Coiling 3rd Grade Third grade students roll clay out with rolling pins, use heart shaped cookie cutters to cut a heart shap...

This is a quick and fun lesson on symmetry and cool colors... I had the students draw snowflakes with sharpies. We then went over the lines...

I did these projects simultaneously with first graders. The first week we talked about patterns and glued all the pasta to create a radial p...

This project was based on the book Owl Moon. We drew and painted the owls the first week, then the second week we read the book and talked a...

I read The Biggest, Best Snowman to first graders before we did snowman drawings with black crayon and chalk. I showed them how they could ...

I read Kevin Henkes book Birds before we did mixed media snow scenes including birds in winter.

It Fell in the City I read the poem by Eve Merriam It Fell in the City to kindergarten students. They cut out paper shapes to make their ci...