Teaching elementary art

36 Elementary Art Lessons for Kids - one for every week of the school year! Perfect for homeschool families, teachers, scout leaders, and parents!

smArtist Blog - Find out more about Teaching for Artistic Behavior and Choice-Based art education in an elementary art classroom and get ideas for how to implement this AMAZING curriculum in your own classroom!

Does your class need a reminder of how to be kind? These crafts about kindness are the perfect way to help bring kindness back to your class!

A kindness tree activity is a fun and effective whole school project to build community!A kindness tree bulletin board is a beautiful and creative way to encourage and acknowledge acts of kindness

Ah, sun and sea! What a wonderful combination for summer. Let your kids capture it with our sea sunset art lesson with warm and cool colors.

Now if I could just find an oversized brush...

This Hugging Heart Friendship Art craft requires very few supplies and is super simple to make. It is also a perfect way to teach your preschool & elementary aged kids about friendship in a creative and fun way. Perfect for a Kids Ministry Sunday School Lesson or Valentine's craft.

Art Teachers, in your Art Classroom you’re always going to have students finish before the rest, fast finishers, so let’s take a look at some ideas or routines that you can build into your classroom so that students know what to do when they’re done so they don’t have to ask you and so that you don’t have to instruct them on what to do EVERY time.

To study shapes and lines, Kindergarten students experimented with cutting out different colored shapes, and used brightly colored markers to trace around them. Students cut out squares, triangles...

Back to school season is officially upon us. I think one of the hardest things about teaching is completely starting over each year. You have to teach expectations and rules, create a community with a new group, and begin teaching grade level content. It's so important during that first month to explicitly teach the skills necessary to meet those expectations to be successful in the classroom, as well as teach the skills to get along with a new set of friends in a new environment. In this…