Art lesson 1st grade

As the Christmas holidays are almost over I have been scouring Pinterest and some of my favourite blogs for winter art inspiration. I have lots of fun projects planned for me and the kids over the…

Colorful penguin art project that use simple supplies and teaches a bunch of art techniques. Makes a cute Xmas craft, too!

This week, we're finishing up day 1 of our precious lil penguins! I found this beautiful idea on Mary Making's blog! This project incorporates watercolor painting, drawing, value, and oil pastels. Here's how we created ours! Materials: Solo by Paul Geraghty Crayola Watercolors or Sax Liquid watercolors Sax 90lb paper Sax 70lb paper Crayola Oil pastel Day 1: Paint background and draw penguin! Before I gave them 90lb paper, I demonstrated how to turn their paper vertical, draw a line across…

Crayons take on a whole new coolness level with this easy and totally non-messy crayon transfer technique.

Here is a great word art project idea for kids and adults. Learn how to make a colorful word collage in this art lesson.

Lesson Background: There are many winter fox art projects online such as this one http://littledogartblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/5th-grade-winter-fox-paintings.html I combined lots of ideas to create these foxes. This was a directed drawing lesson. Directed drawing (i.e. modelling step-by-step) elicits great discussions, exposing students to vocabulary they encounter in art and maths. Students are hearing and putting into action phrases such as “half way down the page”, “curved line”…

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Fun hands-on art lesson for early elementary children on tints and shades in 45 minutes for Kindergarten, 1st, & 2nd grade-level children - Book suggestions - Use with your class, homeschool, after-school program, or co-op!