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visual art ideas:
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en plein air
garden en plein air
observational watercolor painting en plain air
season map or sound map: draw the sounds around you
texture rubbings
story person
Dot to Dot spider web
dot to dot spider webs with china marker
graphite shading with Elephant and Piggie
story map of Big Pumpkin on newsprint
paper sculpture
vellum gouache winter scene
paint like Kandinsky
painting with Legos
artist inspiration
terra cotta pinch pots
wood sculpture ornaments
wood animal sculptures
This design reminds me of . . . ?
animal soft sculpture sewn by 2nd graders
what would your animal like to read?
soft sculpture hand sewn by kindergarteners
self portrait
Collage with beautiful oops scraps
Infographs for math unit on graphing
space collage
oodles of shape animals inspired by Lois Ehlert
shape animals with a number poem created by kindergartners
shape animals with poem
shape animals
what can you make out of hearts?
shape kindergarteners
shape kid
Can you CREATE your own Ed Emberley?
oodles of animals responding to Lois Ehlers's shape animals
"boo"-tiful junk-halloween scenes made from melted plastic bags. Thanks Mrs. Taylor 3rd grade class!
beautiful spooks with ironed on plastic grocery bags
roll a math beetles made with number and shape dice, like the old beetle game we played as kids
How to get to the North Pole map using texture, collage scraps and stickers
fish printing with block printing ink and brayer and yes, a dead fish!
fish print map: made with a real fish
Little Tree inspired by Chris Raschka and e.e. cumming's poem
100 day Josef Alber's squares. They named them by telling how the colors made them feel
100 day Kandinsky circles. How many circles did each child get to have to equal 100 circles?
100 shoes for 100 day- what shoes would you make for a centipede?
fish aquariums with beautiful pastry containers
Mo + Mondrian Pigeon Paintings
fairy tale story map
lego drawings: have kids fill in squares to make a mosaic picture and then recreate it with legos mosaic 1x1 bricks.
how can you change your letter into an alphabeastie?
Turn your letter into a monster
Eric Carle says let kids paint with big brushes everyday!
inch by inch, row by row
Starry Night kindergarten style with oil pastels
After measuring how tall the kindergarteners are they make a flower as big as them
wood sculptures
What can you make with 5 dots?
Lego ABC animals
crystal painting
look at the fun colors in the classic The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
what would your zebra look like?
oodles of animals-I love the negative space this kindergartener used on the bear's face
I don't want to cut out the patterns on the giraffe = problem solve by using a circle sponge
texture dot to dot doodle
bird sculptures-make a bird with strips of paper
get carried away-READ! The kids drew their favorite characters and I took a picture of them with the book
kids can... oil pastel + liquid watercolor
Fish eyes story problems inspired by Lois Ehlers
Mother's Day Shrinky Dink Necklaces
Starry Night kindergarten style
To be a kid . . . oil pastel and ink
seasonal poem with words found in the word jar
blind contour
blind contour of a stuffed animal
significant number portrait using important numbers to kids as part of their portrait
inspired by Mo Willems
owl math measuring
using these measurements can you make an owl?
read Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton
color theory with their own drawings
snowman sculpture
snowman collage
valentine bags of their animal study
the kids made their own valentine cards to give to everyone in the class. I printed off enough for the class and they colored them
lego animal graph
2nd grade info graph with their significant numbers in their life
CREATE strategy cat inspired by Lois Ehlert
geome"tree"
explode a shape
Listening to music that Kandinsky listening to made me feel like I was on a rollercoaster.
3d ladybug
monster ink
pinch pots in kindergarten
tell your story with symbols
textured pinch pot
teaching kindergarteners how to make shape people
what can you do with a box? robot
lego fraction sculptures
fall cork board stamp prints
using just fall colors and a brush-mono print
Utah topical maps
take your book for a walk... Fishing in the Air by Sharon Creech
design your own lookers
capture a lego scene
play a shape
roll a shape
spring poem science + literacy + art
what does this scrap look like?
inspired by Rain Fish by Lois Ehlert
blind partner contour
fill a contour
create your own art tool
draw a contour with markers and then color in
the Pigeon Warhol style
plastic bag art
make your own set of lookers with pipe cleaners, don't forget to read The Looking Book by Patrice Barton
sidewalk ideas
what can you make with a squiggle?
so many shapes, so little time...
array castles inspired by Paul Klee's Sun and Castle painting
pinch pots with crystal glazes
little tree out of rectangles littlest to biggest
glazing Utah maps
polygon concept map that turned into...
beautiful compositions
CREATE strategy Combine, Reverse, Elaborate, Arrange, Twist it up, Eliminate
have your kids make a creativity license
How to Greet the Day by Bryd Baylor, then we created music using rectangles for notes
1 square = 1/4 note, 2 square = ½ note, 4 squares = whole note
an elephant out of attribute shapes
I am proud to be an American
making a bouncy ball that then helped up mix colors and make a painting
origami Elephant and Piggie
Georgia O'Keefe flowers
creativity dice
roll a shape
dot to dot penguin
roll a monster read Jeremy's Monsters by Peter McCarty
fairy tale venn diagram
Favorite art books:
Color by Ella Doran
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
The Great Wave:A Children's Book Inspired by Hokusai by Veronique Massenot
How to be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith
An Eye for Color by Natasha Wing
The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for Everyone by Carla Sonheim
Art Lab by Susan Schwake
Teaching Toddlers Self-Expression, Problem-Solving Skills, and an Appreciation for Art by Susan Striker
Art Ideas by Usborne
Scraps by Lois Ehlers
A is for Artist by Ella Doran
How to Draw a Dragon by Douglas Florian
Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg
What do you do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada and Mae Besom
Ish by Peter H. Reynolds
Snap! by Hazel Hutchins
The Noisy Paintbox by Barb Rosenstock
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse by Patricia MacLachian