Texas art projects for kids

A complete tutorial that shows you how to make paper bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas.

In this project 4th graders learned about the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. O’Keeffe is a famous artist who was from Wisconsin. She grew up in Wisconsin and then lived in New York and New Mexico when she became famous. She is most famous for her large paintings and chalk drawings of Flowers and Skulls. She enlarges (makes it big), crops (zooms in and goes off the paper) and abstracts (makes it look different than in real life). Students in 4th grade studied a real cattle skull and drew a detailed…

This is one of those old but good lessons that we just revisited in 4th grade. My teacher friend, Melody, shared this with me when I was a new teacher in my district 15 years ago and new to Texas. The ties to the IC curriculum are really great in this lesson. I start out with the story of the The Caves of Lascaux's I have many prints from this collection and we focused on the horned cow. We then talk about how these animals came to Texas.... I follow this with some research on the Texas…

Kinder and first have been learning about Texas, so naturally we painted bluebonnets. I wanted them to learn about making the colors go from...

The bluebonnets in Texas are fading, so make them last with this super cute fingerprint bluebonnet craft for kids. So fun and adorable!

Here's a lesson I have posted about many times, and I think I have found the best presentation so far - so new post! Here goes - first I'll share a few pics from earlier... We have made these clay pinch pots with cacti and succulent plants for several years in 4th grade: And since starting our Artsonia portfolios, we needed a better presentation method, so we tried some different ways of photographing our 3-D works, starting with variegated tissue paper which looked a little like a sunset…

Get to know the Lone Star State with the kids using these fun Texas crafts for kids!

DIY Texas Fingerprint art for my son's preschool class Silent Auction project. Turned out amazing! Progress photos on top. We used a flat canvas. Each child's fingerprint was a different color and we put that on a separate page to give with the painting. #texasart #fingerprintart #auction #classproject

This printable map of Texas creates a large mural that, once colored by students, will brighten any classroom and share a bit about the state’s history too. It’s created a vintage style that shares info about different locations and landmarks with large, oversized symbols. From buildings to parks to vegetation, all are fun to color in and make for a fun map to look at. As printable Texas map with cities, all you have to do is print out the 25 pages, trim the art, have students color them in…