The Art Teacher's Closet

I saw this idea on Mary Making and loved how they looked.  I wanted to focus on how to use one material, the chalk pastel, and create two t...

Here are my first graders snowmen.  We worked on them piece by piece and glued a piece of foam craft in between each circle to give them som...

Along with color mixing, this lesson combined pattern and directional line review.  We started with just two diagonal lines (for the sides o...

Valentines Day is one of my favorites!  I love the mix of reds and pinks and I love to find as many heart projects as I can for the kids!  H...

I fell off the blog a little bit after my art show in December.  If anyone is looking for an art fair company, Artome was FABULOUS!!  Here ...

4th Grade blew me away with these!  We looked at Native American paintings with feathered headdresses.  I told them the symbolism of the fea...

I LOVE how these came out!  Here's the finished product for the 8th graders portraits: