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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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