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Teach children how to make secondary colors with primary colors: Colorwheel Fish Art Project

Primary and Secondary Colors Art Lesson

PRIMARY & SECONDARY COLORS ART LESSON I vowed to begin the year with a unit on teaching color theory. It means breaking out the paints when it’d be a lot...Learn More
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Colorwheel flowers spring art lesson using primary colored tempera paints

Colorwheel Flowers Art Lesson

I jumped right in this year…messy painting project on Day One. Actually, it was a lot of fun and the kids loved it. For my first graders, I wanted to...Learn More
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Ceramic Guppies

I usually do regular pinch pots with my first grade students, but this year I was inspired by all the little fish I’ve seen throughout art teacher blogs. These are...Learn More
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Grand Canyon Painting Lesson

Here is another lesson inspiration from the book,  Wow! America! by Robert Neubecker. A journey across the United States brings us to the great Grand Canyon. Layers of rock, canyons and...Learn More
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Lady Liberty with Watercolor or Newspaper

The Statue of Liberty is a great subject for teaching art techniques; watercolor, collage, tempera, marker…pick any medium and the project will turn out great. The drawing itself is quite...Learn More
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Space Shuttle Art Project

Space Shuttle Art Project

Wow! America! by Robert Neubecker is one of my favorite resources for art lessons. I love his dynamic illustrations. This picture book inspired this Space Shuttle art lesson. I created this...Learn More
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Buffalo Painting Art Project

The paintings in the book, Paintings of the American West, depict the lives of Native Americans, complete with beautiful sunsets, buffalo hunts and vast plains. As part of my unit...Learn More
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Colorwheel Flowers art lesson for kindergarteners

Colorwheel Bouquet Art Lesson

COLORWHEEL BOUQUET ART LESSON This is a great lesson to teach the colorwheel, reinforce cutting and pasting skills and sharpen color observation and recognition. I did this lesson with my...Learn More
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Focal Point Fish

Composition is hard. How do you know when a picture “looks” right? That’s what I asked my fourth graders today. We talked about what grabbed our attention and how our...Learn More
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