The Accidental Art Teacher

In this lesson I had the kids experimenting with positive and negative shapes. In Japan this is called Notan, and you typically start wi...

Here's a nice looking app for your mobile device that stores and organizes artwork. I photograph the kids artwork already, but I think I...

Every year I try to do several self portraits of the kids. It is a good way to get observation as well as some art history involved. Click h...

  Ah, the smell of apples in September and the pitter-patter of Kindergartners! A fall classic is apple stamping, but I gave it a bit of a ...

 This year, we are having a school-wide focus on North America, and American history in several grades. In music, the kids were learning...

Its already Fall! And I still haven't posted many of my Springtime projects! Bad teacher;-( Well that will allow me to sprinkle them dur...

For the Springtime and as study of Asian painting, I had the younger kids do a study of the plum blossoms, with black paint branc...

Another project that I did two years ago, this dovetails with the 5th-6th study of ancient Greece. The kids viewed some examples of the...

This was a fun project that our other teachers did with the kids on a "Fun Friday." The results were too cute and artistic to not ...

This project was kind of a three-in-one lesson self portrait with pencil color theory Pop Art/optical illusion I was inspired by pr...

In a repeat of a project I did 2 years ago , I had the K-1 group make crosses for St. Patrick's Day. Tinfoil, pencils to emboss with,...

Being that its springtime now, and the kids have been learning about insects, I had the idea to do bees with the little kids. This was a...