Eric carle art projects for kids

I love happy art lessons. The ones that engage children right from the get-go. These painted paper butterflies are a perennial favorite in my art room. My first graders make painted paper and then use the paper to create butterfly wings. I set out wing templates but encourage the children to make their own wing

Learn about the artist and their artwork by creating your own masterpiece using their techniques and idea and instill love for art in kids.

Today is the perfect day to try this Eric Carle inspired project shared by Anna from The Imagination Tree. Why? Because today is Eric Carle’s birthday! Read through this tutorial and discover…

As part of a Kindergarten art lesson on value and texture, we did a few Eric Carle-inspired texture collage craft activities.

Learn all about the life and work of Eric Carle and try making some Eric Carle style process art of your own!

How to make painted paper for Eric Carle-inspired art.

I did this project with a group of Kindergartners in our co-op as a part of an Eric Carle author study. We spent some time looking through his books, talking about his collage technique using painted sheets of tissue paper, and seeing how he does it in his studio (in The Art of Eric Carle - great book from our library). Then we tried our own version of the flower that grew from The Tiny Seed. First, we needed to paint several sheets of paper. I used acrylic paint on copy paper to have a…

A blog about teaching children the basics of art and crafting.

I’m so in love with this Eric Carle inspired Mixed up Chameleon art. Have you read The Mixed Up Chameleon? It’s the latest highlighted book for the Preschool Book Club Series I’m a part of. It’s such a nice story about a chameleon who doesn’t see his own strengths and tries to be like everyone […]

We were inspired by 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo by Eric Carle to make tissue paper art.