AN ART LESSON FOCUSING ON LINE STYLE AND ANALOGOUS COLOR SCHEME I’ve taught this lesson to my lower elementary students as part of an Elements-based unit on LINE. THE LINE STYLE WATERCOLOR HANDS ART LESSON… [Continue Reading]
Nine Strategies To Boost School-Wide Support for Your Art Program
Arts in Education Week is September 9-15th and what better way to promote the Arts in Education than to make what you and your young artists do every single day more visible to other teachers,… [Continue Reading]
Five Ways To Encourage Innovation In The Art Classroom
Defining Innovation Innovation refers to a new method or process. In order to encourage innovation, there must be something to think “innovative-ly” about! To teach someone to read, you provide books. To teach someone to… [Continue Reading]
Henna Hands Art Lesson
AN ART LESSON INSPIRED BY THE CULTURE OF INDIA I’ve taught this lesson to my upper elementary students for a few years now, as part of a cultural-based unit on India. The students are… [Continue Reading]
How We Do Printmaking in the Art Room
Printmaking in the Art Room sounds really messy and also sounds like a lot of work. Which is exactly why I had avoided doing it as a class activity for years… But, last year,… [Continue Reading]
Journey to Art Journaling
I’ve always liked the idea of mixing Literacy and the Arts. After all, Art is the universal language through which to communicate. Literacy and the English language is just a subset of communication because we… [Continue Reading]
