Bug art lesson

I was introduced to this lesson by Claire Kirk & Katie Flowers. Both amazing artists and art educators I have had the honor of knowing and working with over the years. From observational drawin…

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Fireflies are such fun bugs! I had never seen them until we moved to the East Coast and it really is magical to see them flying in the night sky. I bought some Glow in The Dark Paint and I've been wanting to try this for a Summer project. Here is what it looks like in the dark... I painted some of the dots and the bodies of the fireflies with glow in the dark paint. After you "charge" up the paint under a light it glows softly. You will need: Watercolor paint pencils Sharpies - black and…

Before May 21, 1893, the Sunday Morning comics looked like this.... Black, Gray and White. But after seeing Paris print comics in color in 1892, America decided they wanted to do it too! So we started with the basic colors... THE PRIMARY COLORS! If we wanted green, orange or violet we had to use the primary colors to make the picture "look" green, orange or violet. Roy LIchtenstein is the perfect artist to use when talking about early comic art. Thinking of Him by Roy Lichtenstein Sunrise…

The National Festival of Making

We began this lesson by perusing a variety of scientific illustrations of insects, observing the realistic elements such as the presence of a head, thorax, and abdomen and a total of six segmented…

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STEAM art lesson with bugs and insects that is fun and easy.

Create a series of four symmetrical bugs using basic lines and shapes and then color them with warm and cool colors.

Insects are one of my favorite subjects for elementary art, and symmetry beetles are part of my spring kindergarten curriculum. This project is fun, colorful, and a surreptitious way to integrate t…