First day art projects

Discover fun and educational art class games that you can quickly set up in minutes! These art games for the classroom help reinforce art skills while keeping students engaged and excited to learn.

Can you believe we only have 8 days of school left? Where did this year go? Looking back on all of the projects that we completed, I am very pleased with the quality and quantity of work that my students produced. I truly believe that I have the most talented, wonderfully amazing students in the world! While looking back over all of the projects, I was shocked and a little upset with myself that we didn't do printmaking this year. While in college, I LOVED printmaking. I even did an…

Are you nervous about starting the school year? Or are you excited to get things going? Even though this is my lucky 13th year teaching, I still get anxious to go back. It’s a combo of nerves, excitement and anxiety about getting back into a different routine. I still have dreams that the class is out of control, I forget that I am scheduled to teach or I oversleep. Recently, I asked readers to share their top tips for starting … Read more... →

Nylah Khan on Instagram: "Gearing up to head back to school soon, as I know many of y’all are as well! And if you’re not, then pls look away!!!! Here’s my first day art lesson with TK (you can do it with any lower grade)! I have probably been doing this lesson for 2 decades. It started as my go to lesson for kinder, but now I do another version of this with them! And yessssss, we bust out the paint on Day 1! It’s all so worth it, I promise! On Day 1, students learn about the different…

I was so excited to see this idea of Circle Painting!! I first learned about it at Barbara’s Thought of the Day and then at We Heart Art. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. for this wonderful idea. We are making several collaborative canvases with this technique and they are going to be raffled off at our end of the year school FUNdraiser. The kids had a blast creating these paintings. This is the first video I have edited … Read more... →

I first got the collaborative bug when I saw Sarah’s post about monochromatic self-portraits. They’re created on the FIRST day of art! Then came my love of Dot Day and creating collaborative circle ar

There is a big sale going on at TPT from Dec. 1-2ish. Let’s celebrate super cyber savings! The sale runs: December 1st 12:01AM (ET) through December 2nd 11:59PM (ET) Many sellers will have 20% sales, plus use the promo code: TPTCYBER to add an extra 10% to your entire order. I have two new products in my shop I’d like to tell you about. First is a Henri Matisse PowerPoint that is appropriate for students in grades K-2. (Since K … Read more... →

Learn how to draw Kusama Inspired Pumpkins and create vibrant pumpkin art for kids! Perfect for Autumn, Halloween and Thanksgiving art projects.

An elementary art teacher blog with art projects and lessons, DIY projects and outfit photos as well as clothing I have made myself.