Art projects for grades 3-5

I always like to start the year with a review of lines. Every grade level does a project that reintroduces all the different ways to make l...

4th and 5th graders have been working for weeks and weeks on their minecraft portraits and they FINALLY finished. Before we started we looked at minecraft characters and talked about them- what do …

I have done this lesson many times, but this year the results are better than ever before. This year, we had more time to do this project, and therefore their drawings had more detail. This lesson focuses on the concept of foreshortening. This is a hard concept for even experienced artists, so to make it simpler, we traced our hands and feet. The other details were drawn in after. I found the idea for this lesson years ago on the blog Oodles of Art. Over the years, I have adapted this…

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These chalk pastel lillypads and frogs were created on black paper. They were inspired by the chorus of Spring frogs outside the art studio. Follow for more art ideas for kids!

"With all the hatred in the world we want to communicate that art can touch many lives and heal."

Mrs. T's First Grade Class: End of the Year Projects

The idea for this class came from the fact that these girls are nearing the end of the school year and they're doing a lot of testing and finals and such. So I wanted a project that could be a sort of Art Therapy relaxation experience. Remember when you were little and you'd scribble all over the paper and then use different colors to fill in the spaces? That's what we did today...but with a twist. We began by watching this wonderful video on the 7 Elements of Art. This video is excellent…

Paste paper is a surface decorating technique in which a mixture of paint and paste, (in our case, papier mache paste,) is applied thickly to white or colored paper. Patterns and textures can be cr…

Thank you Elmer’s for sponsoring this post. All opinions expressed are my own. Today we're experimenting with salt, glue, and watercolors to create some colorful ocean art. You'll only need a few materials to create

school auction art a lot of times can be very corny, or something you may not actually want to bid on / hang in your house. if you're in charge of doing the auction art for your kids classroom this year, here is a post of beautiful projects that fellow parents would actually want and bid on!

4th Grade Shaded Forms 4th grade has been learning about the elements of art, FORM & VALUE. Form is a three-dimensional geometrical figure (like a sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, etc.), as opposed to a shape, which is two-dimensional, or flat. Value is the lightness or darkness of a color. (this project was inspired by an awesome image i found on Marnie Hyland's blog! Check out their awesome art!) Day 1: I demonstrated how to do the project. (I project all of my lessons on a giant screen, so…