Resources & links for making art at home

Drawing:

My students' favorite drawing tutorials:

https://www.artforkidshub.com/

More drawing resources (thanks to Avery!)

https://seatup.com/blog/sit-down-and-draw/

And dice drawing games (roll the dice to see what to draw!):

https://deceptivelyeducational.blogspot.com/2011/12/build-bug.html

https://i0.wp.com/www.secondstorywindow.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/monsterdraw.jpg?ssl=1

http://holderbaum.educationextras.com/LegoActivities.html

For young comic book artists, this illustrator has blank comic book panels & activity sheets:

https://jarrettlerner.com/activities/

Fun zentangle/op art ideas:

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs023/1101168872594/archive/1103991260417.html

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/c3/0a/aac30ab38fb59341ec353d83538e6725.jpg

Origami:

https://www.origami-fun.com/origami-for-kids.html

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/origami-for-kids-4162883

Clay:

Homemade play dough recipe:

https://domesticsuperhero.com/best-homemade-playdough-recipe/


Pottery app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.idreams.potterylite&hl=en_US

Collage:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/95/a4/1695a4d200f9d1bc401d96e6236f64fa.jpg

Painting:

https://www.smallhandsbigart.com/abstract-scraper-painting/

Sculpture & Design Challenges

https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/62002/kids-craft-paper-boxes

https://frugalfun4boys.com/engineering-challenges-clothespins-binder-clips-craft-sticks/

http://colorforeveryone.blogspot.com/2014/05/gesture-drawing-and-foil-figures.html?m=1

https://onelittleproject.com/beaded-pipe-cleaner-people/

https://artfulparent.com/3-d-art-sculpture-ideas-kids/

THE SHAPE OF MY HEART Valentine's Mobiles

Kinder and 1st grade students decorated these sweet streamers after reading THE SHAPE OF MY HEART. I copied heart templates on colored copy paper to make it an easy one day project. They were excited to use these to decorate their classrooms for Valentine's Day.

Older students, in 3rd-5th grade, learned to make a simple one string mobile using 6 x 6" construction paper squares and yarn. They folded two pieces of paper together and cut a heart on the fold. I also showed them how to cut "heart rings" and increasingly smaller hearts to use on their mobiles. They simply glued them "like a sandwich" on either side of the yarn. They made every variety of mobile, from large to small, and some student experimented with other symmetrical shapes.

Animals

I love these magical animals created by 1st and 2nd graders! We started by looking at animals in art, including "Cat and Bird" by Paul Klee and the many Blue Dog paintings by George Rodrigue.

Day 1 we read THE CAT AND THE BIRD, by Geraldine Elschner which was inspired by Klee's painting. What a great idea for a book! To get started I used instructions on how to draw a simple cat from Kathy Barbo's wonderful website, Art Projects for Kids. We looked at how to use basic shapes, beginning with a circle for the head, to draw a variety of animals. The first day they drew with pencils then outlined with sharpies.

Day 2 we read WHY IS BLUE DOG BLUE, by George Rodrigue, then they went to work adding color to their animals using crayons. Day 3 we looked at more examples of Blue Dog with various backgrounds, then used tempera cakes to finish the backgrounds.

Finally, on Day 4, students wrote titles and descriptions for their animals, which they loved doing! For kids who really struggled with writing I transcribed for them.