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Category Archives: Art Education
Christmas Tree Prints
Grade 3/4 Printmaking: There is a lovely class at Ferndale School that I so enjoy coming to teach art to … A simple process really, and an easy way into printmaking at this age level. I showed them a chart … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 3/4 Art Projects
Tagged Christmas, Printmaking, Winter
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Everybody Digs Jasper Johns (and Bill Evans)
Grade 2/3 Colour Wash Alphabets I have to say that these are some of my favourite results in teaching art so far. That may be oversimplifying it, but I just never get tired of these ones! You may notice that … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 2/3 Art Projects
Tagged Drawing, Painting
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Starry Night / Advent Banners
Grade 6 / Starry Night over Bethlehem I was asked to do something for Advent with the grade 6 class at St. Michael Catholic School. So I started with a reading from the Gospels, describing the star that marked the … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Assemblages, Drawing, Oil Pastels
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What if a Giant SOMETHING Came to Town?!
Grade 2/3: A Lesson in Perspective Duration: 1 1/2 double periods We were talking about creating the illusion of distance and space using the relationship between size and fore, middle, and background. What is the difference in the size of … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 2/3 Art Projects
Tagged Assemblages, Drawing, Perspective
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Start with a Dot
Grade 1/2: This was a little free project at the tail end of a class. We were finishing up another, and I had my daughter with me that day, sooo … I had Leah take the kids who were finished … Continue reading
Exploring Op Art / Doin’ the Wave
Grade 5 Op Art The grade 5’s were really jazzed to get at some art that messes with optics (they had been seeing some examples that I had posted on the board). This one required some concentration on their part, but … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Op Art
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The More of Paper Masks
Grade 5 Paper Masks: Taking it Further Part II. Class 5 & 6. Just when they thought they were finished with masks, I had them work with them one more time. The teacher and I paired up the students, with … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Drawing, Oil Pastels, Painting
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Paper Masks and More
Grade 5 Paper Masks: Symmetry, Repetition, Layering Part I. This was an extremely popular project I did with two classes in two schools. It spanned several week’s work, but the processes and results were well worth the investment of class … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Assemblages, Sculpture, Upcycle/Recycle
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Crazy Textured Socks
Grade 1 & 2 Sock Symmetry – or Not. Here is a project we did early in the year, and it was a fun kick-off (is there a pun?) to the year of Art Room antics. I had in my … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 1/2 Art Projects
Tagged Cut-paper Collages
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Grade 1/2 Paper Dinosaurs
It all started with a rock or two. Or I should say a blog (but I can’t remember which one – sorry!), and then the rocks. I dragged in a bucket of rocks that I have collected in my travels … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 1/2 Art Projects
Tagged Sculpture
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