Fourth Grade students practiced creating tints and shades by adding white or black to blue tempera paint. Starting with the tint, they paint...

Third Grade performed "Dinostars" for the monthly PTA program. To go along with their program, they created dinosaur art. They fir...

Second Grade students created a sky background with grass by painting only with cool colors. With the help of tracers, they cut out various ...

On Fridays, we have "Collaborative Art Fridays." Monday through Thursday, I teach the main focus lesson and the students create ar...

On Fridays, we have "Collaborative Art Fridays." Monday through Thursday, I teach the main focus lesson and the students create ar...

Fifth Grade demonstrated their knowledge of warm and cool colors by creating wave patterns. They first used a ruler to create a grid. They t...

In Fifth Grade we talked about the importance of art critiques but that ultimately, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We discussed what ...

Fourth Grade learned about the art of Zentangles . Using various handouts as inspirations and their own knowledge of lines, the students dre...

Third Grade students created patterns with geometric shapes and cool/warm colors. To integrate math, students had to find either a square or...

With the aid of rulers, second grade drew a top view of umbrellas divided into six sections. They colored each section in order of the color...

First Grade drew birds using basic 2D shapes. They drew their birds sitting on straight lines like wires. For each bird, we talked about how...

First Grade read A Rainbow of Friends by P.K. Hallinan as a connection to creating our class Social Contract and as an introduction to the ...

Kindergarten read Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh to learn about primary colors and the secondary colors created by mixing those colors. A...

Kinder students worked together to create basic color wheels with magazine pictures and words. They sorted the clippings by color and practi...

Fifth Grade created moving lines using just paper, markers, scissors, and glue. They first drew curved lines in complementary color pattern...

Fourth Grade students used various art materials to create their low-relief line art. They started with a piece of cardboard and cut slits i...

Third Grade read The Line by Paula Bossio to discuss how various lines form various pictures. We talked about the importance of being able ...

First and Second Grade read Lines That Wiggle by Candace Whitman to learn about various types of lines. They then drew various lines with b...