Outdoor art projects for middle school

by the children of Idlewild Elementary and the guidance of artist Deirdre Daw

When it’s brrrrrrr outside, middle school kids still have the desire to craft, create and design. I have rounded up some winter craft ideas for middle school.

There are all kinds of amazing things happening all around us in Nature. Get your teens interested in the great outdoors!

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”-Sylvia Plath Drawing and painting with light and shadow is one of my absolute ...

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produced site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment. He explore and experiments with various natural material such as leaves, grasses, stones, wood, sand, clay, ice and snow. The seasons and weather determine…

Relief sculpture is an art form that is midway between painting and sculpture in the round. It is a process in which the subject stands out or projects a surface from the background. The surface can be several levels including high relief (deep or almost in the round) or low relief (shallow) or anywhere in between. To create their relief sculptures, seventh graders first learned about the difference between shape and form. A shape is two-dimensional (it has height and width) whereas a form…

Recent School Art Projects. Relief carved panels, wall pieces, sculptural benches, signs for village and town, carved wood ware, work with schools, string pictures, drawings.

Two Engaging Outdoor Activities to Do With Your Students % %

everyone could add elements to the weaving near entrance to fiber college