Kindergarten and first grade art lessons

There's so much more to do with kindergartners than finger painting.

Introduce elementary art students to Monet with this set of art lessons ending in a unique water lilies Claude Monet art project.

You will love these fun, creative, and unique 30 Art Projects for Kindergarten including seasonal art, famous artists, and handprint art too!

Planning out what you are going to say and do on the first day of school can be a big task for a teacher. But as an art teacher, I am lucky enough to get to redo that same first day of school speech up to 30 times! That’s 6 different classes a day for...

This week, kindergarten continued their exploration of line, and started these fun line paintings! We used a new medium, to them, oil pastels and tempera cakes. 😄 Here's how we did it! Materials: Sax 90lb paper Crayola Oil Pastels Jack Richeson Semi-Moist tempera cakes First, we reviewed the different types of lines. Then, I showed them how to draw the lines from side to side of their (vertical) paper. I also talked about how you need to make the lines dark with the oil pastels, or they…

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Create Eric Carle inspired paper collages using basic art supplies. A fun activity for any age to celebrate the incredible artist and author.

Lesson Background: There are many winter fox art projects online such as this one http://littledogartblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/5th-grade-winter-fox-paintings.html I combined lots of ideas to create these foxes. This was a directed drawing lesson. Directed drawing (i.e. modelling step-by-step) elicits great discussions, exposing students to vocabulary they encounter in art and maths. Students are hearing and putting into action phrases such as “half way down the page”, “curved line”…