First grade art projects

The August art session with my little "firsties" was a HUGE success. We created "Wild About 1st Grade" self-portraits. They turned out so dang cute! It was a lot of fun to combine some guided art along with "do your own thing" directions. The bulletin board is adorable. We'll be adding their writing prompt responses to "I'm WILD About 1st Grade Because..." as soon as we finish the edit process. I created a file with the guided art directions, supply list, and writing prompts. Feel free to…

STEM becomes STEAM as we integrate science with art in these awesome science art projects for kids! Get ready to get your mind blown!

Introduce elementary art students to Monet with this set of art lessons ending in a unique water lilies Claude Monet art project.

Lauralee Chambers🌀 | Next up- 4th grade giant ice cream sundaes! Drawing with ink on 18x24. Following an @artforkidshub lesson. Thanks! #drawinglesson #kidsart… | Instagram

Lesson Background: There are many winter fox art projects online such as this one http://littledogartblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/5th-grade-winter-fox-paintings.html I combined lots of ideas to create these foxes. This was a directed drawing lesson. Directed drawing (i.e. modelling step-by-step) elicits great discussions, exposing students to vocabulary they encounter in art and maths. Students are hearing and putting into action phrases such as “half way down the page”, “curved line”…

The first grade students made yarn wrapped snakes. We started by coloring their heads with oil pastels. Then, they practiced wrapping the yarn tight and close together to cover up all of the cardbo…

Teaching weaving was one of those things I dreaded my first year teaching. I got a C on a weaving project in college because I was certain that my professor would never notice that I'd missed a warp string, causing a large runner to snake it's way through my weaving. So when I saw weaving in my curriculum, I was not thrilled. It also didn't help that I had a first grade boy shout, "I'm NOT WEAVING. It's FOR GIRLS." Here's the funny part: days later, he was the best weaver in class and years…

Reading self-portraits, clay snails, multi-media projects, and so much more!