Art Explorium

  I love the way this project came out!  We looked at Edward Munch's "The Scream" and discussed how the colors and brushstr...

I have seen this lesson on several blogs. Students draw abstract portraits based on Picasso's. They begin by drawing a circle and dr...

In this lesson we begin by discussing what a tint is. Students choose either red or blue paint to use for their background and are given a ...

We read The Legend of the Indian Paint Brush by Tomie DePaola. We brainstormed different images that we saw in Little Gopher's painti...

This was a fall lesson that I did in the beginning of the year with first graders. We began by weaving our baskets and gluing them onto th...

This lesson follows up a lesson about Op Art. We spent some time looking at and discussing Op Art and optical illusions. Students created...

, 5th graders used oil pastels to create winter themed landscapes. We reviewed lots of vocabulary- landscape, horizon line, foreground, m...