Jungle art projects

Try an easy, nature-inspired kids craft - stamping chameleons with bubble wrap! This classroom art project or preschool craft introduces a new painting technique using recycled supplies for an eco-friendly craft and art-making activity. Print the jungle leaves and chameleon templates and go wild stamping rainbow-colored chameleons with bubble wrap. A perfect reptile or rainforest craft to pair with Eric Carle's The Mixed Up Chameleon book. | Bookish play | KidLit crafts | Recycled kids…

Our Artist Inspiration is Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau was a self taught French painter who is famous for his illustrative style rainforest and jungle paintings. I really love these paintings - they capture the dense, lush vegetation of the rainforests and jungles, and show the wonderful wildlife hiding amongst the trees staring out at the viewer - they almost invite…

Learn how to draw a Toucan with this fun and easy art project for kids. Simple step by step tutorial available. #howtodraw #artprojectsforkids #toucan

First and second grade have been making the cutest neon giraffe’s. Here are a few finished ones. Some of them used sparkly felt and some neon paper for the headphones. The ipod is paper and we used yarn for the cord. The students learned about color mixing and blending. We studied the color wheel to see which colors we could blend next to each other. They did a fabulous job! For some reason neon colors don’t translate in photos. They are much much brighter in person! I had my first class…

Paper Plate Snake Craft Using Bubble Wrap #Kids art project | CraftyMorning.com

This is a fun way to build a textured canvas. Children use black glue on black construction paper to outline the frog. Then use colored oil pastels to fill him in. The results are stunning

I'm working on developing several Animal Themed art projects for my Art Camp this Summer. I have always thought a Rousseau inspired project would be fun so I decided to give it a try. Rousseau's Paintings are very dreamlike and primitive. He painted several jungle scenes even though he never traveled outside of France. He wasn't formally trained in art and simply taught himself how to paint. I'll show the students a few examples and then we'll do a directed drawing of the Tiger in pencil on…

Sloth on Popsicle Stick Bamboo - a slow-paced handprint sloth craft that children can craft up at THEIR own rate, with minimal help or steps