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Fall Leaf Print Activity for Kids

Fall Leaves Print Making Activity & Video

Need a beautiful, accessible project for kids? This fall leaves stencil project is perfect. You’ll need to gather 2-4 leaves per child or about 50 leaves for a 25-student class...Learn More
60 Min
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How to draw a perspective landscape: Desert

How to Draw a Perspective Landscape

Learning how to draw perspective is one of those art techniques that gets kids to sit up and take notice. Part of the excitement is realizing that art has rules....Learn More
60 Min
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collaborative ceramic tile mural project for 6th grade

Car-themed Collaborative Ceramic Mural

The 6th grade car mural completed last Spring, marked the 10th year I facilitated a collaborative ceramic tile mural project. Within that span, 12 murals were created to help graduating 6th...Learn More
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How to Draw & Paint a Ferry Boat

How to Draw & Paint Ferry Boats

HOW TO DRAW AND PAINT FERRY BOATS Growing up on Prince Edward Island offered me the opportunity to travel to the mainland by ferry boat.  We loved discovering which ferry...Learn More
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How to Draw a Robot

Teach your kids how to draw a robot and use fun metallic paints and pastels to add polish and shine. No doubt using shapes to draw you robots allows for a...Learn More
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How to draw garden flowers art project video

How to Draw & Paint Garden Flowers Video

I must admit. I’ve gone a little flower crazy since reviewing Julia Rothman’s Nature Anatomy. I can’t stop painting flowers! And I created this little video which ties in nicely with...Learn More
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watercolor and pastels bird art lesson for kids spring project

How to Paint without Paint

What? Paint without paint? Yes. It can be done with a most humble product: water-soluble oil pastel. Faber-Castell makes a wonderful Gel Stick in a plastic applicator that looks a lot...Learn More
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How to draw and paint a jellyfish and create the prettiest paintings ever!

Jellyfish Art project

One of the prettiest projects my third graders created this year happened during the very last days of school.  I get rather desperate for ideas and organization towards the end of...Learn More
80 Min
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Giraffe's Can't Dance Art project for Kids

Giraffes Can’t Dance Art Lesson

Who says giraffes can’t dance? According to my first grade students, they not only dance, but sway, gyrate and hip-hop. Based on the book of the same name, the lesson...Learn More
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