Fun high school art projects

This Sculpture art project for elementary or middle school art class requires no prep and few cheap materials.

Illustrations done on Popsicle sticks. Usually after dessert after dinner. Quite often while watching Sex and the City reruns.

High school winter holiday art project featuring chalk pastel on black paper produces vivid results.

We had a lot fun studying real candy prices as our inspiration for our Pop Art Candy Paintings. Tempra paint and black Sharpie outlines added emphasis and strong lines. The 12" x12" paper created a cropped effect as well. Yum!

Neurographic Art has been a hit the past couple of years in middle school art rooms across the country! This mindful, intentional mark-making drawing method provides students with lots of freedom, …

Welcome! This blog post features a step by step tutorial with photos to hand sew an adorable pop tart plushie. This is a great activity for a beginner who has little/no experience with sewing. Is hand sewing really a life skill we need to learn nowadays? You can buy everything... there are sewing machines.... there

Several years ago I needed a lesson to cover a week's absence after a planned surgery. I wasn't sure if I'd get an art sub, and started getting that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach. What if they let the kids trash the room or waste supplies? It wasn't fair to assign a week of bogus activities or make the sub feel like a babysitter. The compromise was to have students create a monochromatic postcard with watercolor pencils. All the joy of painting with limited supplies and clean up…

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