1st grade pumpkin art

Our pumpkins are really popping off the page in first grade. We looked at my finished example and saw that I painted my orange pumpkin with two colors, orange & yellow. Why? Well many of my first...

Who doesn’t love a silly pumpkin? This is another great October project to do, especially if you have students in your class who don’t celebrate Halloween. Pumpkins can be associate with Halloween but they are also just a fall staple! I have done this project with K and 2/3 so it is adaptable to the

1st grade | Painted Paper Art

1st graders made these fabulous pumpkins! We did a quick drawing with sharpie markers (no erasing) and colored in with oil pastels. We started off with a yellow-orange, then orange, and red-orange ma

Our pumpkins are really popping off the page in first grade. We looked at my finished example and saw that I painted my orange pumpkin with two colors, orange & yellow. Why? Well many of my first...

Keisha L. Casiano on Instagram: “But these kinder pumpkins!!!!😍❤️😂 so stinkin cute! We mixed our orange using primary colors, next added our starry night sky inspired by…”

If you're interested in my full Fall Art Lesson Pack, you can find it in my TpT HERE! An art teacher friend of mine asked me about a couple of lessons I did last year, so I decided to blog a little bit about them. First of all, the book "The Runaway Pumpkin" is SO cute. I think any pumpkin book would be great to go along with a pumpkin lesson, but this one is rhythmic, rhyming, and funny. I only read this with kindergarten, but it's pretty funny for k-3. I did the simple pumpkin lesson with…

This week, we looked at the art of Vincent Van Gogh, talked about the Element of Art, VALUE, and started creating these cute lil pumpkin paintings! Here's Van Gogh's painting, we were inspired by. Starry Night Here's how we did it! Day 1: Drew the pumpkin on a 12"x12" piece of 90 lb paper with Mrs. Stacey. We started with the middle section and worked our way out. Then, we drew the objects in the background, with a pencil. Then, we traced with Crayola Oil Pastels. I like the giant class…

Kid art is my favorite kind of art, which is why it’s so fun to incorporate directed drawings into the primary classroom. This pumpkin directed drawing is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first gr