Category: Art

  • Handprinted Card

    Materials: pencil eraser black paint or black-inked stamp pad fine-tip black pen fold 8 1/2″ X 11″ paper into 4 OR re-use end pieces of white bristolboard, folded in half OR pieces of white cardboard … View Full Lesson →

  • Bird Feeders

    Materials: 1L or 2L milk cartons OR gallon plastic milk/juice jugs 1-2 feet of string, wire, leather strip to hang feeder 12 inch stick or dowel (small piece of found tree branch is fine) scissors … View Full Lesson →

  • Pencil Holder

    Materials: soup or juice can, one end cut off, CAREFUL no sharp edges white glue that dries clear and waterproof spray paint (use outside) decorations: scrap magazines for pictures mom or dad would like, yarn, … View Full Lesson →

  • C. M. Russell Art: Western Sunsets

    A beautiful sunset picture is created with paints, as a background for a simple black silhouette of mountains, trees, cactus, with perhaps a barn and cowboys. Easy art with gorgeous results for young students. View Full Lesson →

  • Paul Gauguin (Go-gan) Art: Opposite Colour Masterpieces

    Landscapes are drawn with a horizon line, overlapping mountains, trees near and far, a stream or lake, and a sun, but they are coloured differently. Gauguin painted yellow skies, with orange grass and red mountains, and students follow this method of using opposing colours. What a fun twist on the normal! View Full Lesson →

  • Learning Secondary Colours

    Objective: Learning secondary colours Materials needed for demonstration: Shaving cream paint powder in primary colours (yellow, red, blue) plastic sheeting (clean, old shower curtain) ream of newsprint/cheap paper/ enough for each child to do one mixing … View Full Lesson →