Winter art middle school

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This is a wonderfully magic winter lesson I found on the Painted Paper website. She gives all the steps and lots of great visuals to help students. I altered my lesson by using white coloured pencils with touches of white tempera at the end. I taught this to a class of Grade 4 - 6 students. Loved how they turned out and so many skills taught!

Thank goodness we live in an age where we can get inspiration from teachers all over the world! Most art teachers are alone in their building, so we do not have the opportunity to collaborate with our peers as much as the other teachers do. I'm so blessed to live in an age where an art teacher clear across the country or world is accessible in mere seconds! We can all share our great ideas, and not have to leave the comfort of our pj's if we don't want to! Anyway.... As I was scrolling…

3rd grade 3rd grade 2nd grade kindergarten This was a fun little one day project for the holiday season. I had the kids create their backgrounds first with watercolors on 11x15 paper. These were put up to dry and we created our birds and cropped snowmen faces on blue construction paper, cut to the same size as their backgrounds. I offered colored pencils, chalk and charcoal to add color and shading. These were cut out and glued to their dry watercolor skies. A final snowfall was created…

Student work I discovered Baltimore-based artist and illustrator Jen Aranyi on Instagram a while back. Pen and watercolor is a favorite media combination of mine, so her work really resonated. I've done many projects with my students over the last year using these two media together, and I knew my kids would love her work. So, when I wanted a quick one-class winter-inspired project, I knew this was it. To build a holiday gift option into the project, I decided to give the kids the option of…

Combining the principles of pattern and movement, middle school students will glide into their artwork with this darling Ice Skating project.

Here's a more basic version of one of my most pinned art lessons "Birch Trees in Watercolours". I adjusted the steps to make it a bit easier for my Grade 5 students. They used masking tape (covered in lint) to tape down a row of trees. They ripped small pieces of tape to add small branches. Then they painted over the entire thing using tempera pucks (you could also use watercolours). The next day they peeled the tape off. They added a grey shadow on one side of the tree trunks. Some added…

Creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface isn’t as hard as you think! We learned that when viewing a landscape, things that are closer appear larger and lower in the picture, while things th…