Youth Art Month Show!

This week most of the art teachers in the county are participating in our annual Youth Art Month show! We've been matting and hanging art in preparation for this show! March is Youth Art Month, and we will be celebrating these young artists all month long!  

Here are our artists selected from Barksdale!

4th grade Collagraph printmaking

This week, 4th will be starting their background for the Collagraph printmaking project! This was inspired by the fabulous @Mrsdow_Artroom! Give her a follow on Instagram! 

After they finish their background, they'll start gluing the foam shapes onto their square printing plate.
Videos and how to below!

1st grade Sailboats

This week, first grade started their mixed media sail boat picture!

Here's how we created them!

2nd grade Superhero self portraits

For the past few weeks, our 2nd graders have been working on their superhero self portraits, (it has a lot of steps y'all!) and we're finally finishing them up, this week! This lesson was inspired by the great Cassie Stephens, and you can see how they do their lesson if you follow this link!

Here's how we made our own!

Kindergarten Spring Flowers

I don't know about y'all, but here we are so over snow (we're out of snow days!) and already thinking about spring! So, we're breaking out of our snowy scenes and moving on to bright and pretty things! Here's how we're going to make our vases of flowers, inspired by the fabulous teacher Abby Shukei. You can visit her art blog here!

My Top 20 Supplies for the Elementary Art Room!

Here's my list of my most favorite and best art supplies, that I have used over my 12 year career in art education! I know when I first started out, I really needed a list like this! Also, students ask, "Where can you get this??" So, I decided to compile a list of my fave supplies to share with you folks at home. If you have more to add to the list, feel free to leave your suggestions!
For a more detailed product description, click on the links below to see Amazon's info about them!

3rd grade Starry Night cityscapes

This week 3rd grade started their Starry Night cityscapes! This project was inspired by the awesome art teacher, Katie Allain. Her images on Instagram look so fun, and amazing, I had to try one with our students! Give her a follow on IG at @MrsAllainArt

Here's how we will be creating ours!

5th grade Origami Dragon Eyes

5th grade is finishing up their Chinese New Year kites, so it's time for a new project! I thought we'd go in a more 3-d direction, and create some origami dragon eyes! The kids LOVE origami, and these aren't too complicated to do! I was cruising Pinterest, and found Krokotek's blog about creating origami eyes, and thought I'd try it too. & Sabrina Wingren, with A Space to Create Art, has this project for sale in her TPT store, if you'd like to purchase additional details of this project. There are also dozens of youtube videos, showing how to make similar reptile/dragon eyes, if my videos aren't sufficient. :) 

Here's how we made them and a sample of my students' work! 

Kindergarten Radiating Design Hearts

Kindergarten completed their exploding hearts this week, so it's time to create something new! I thought it'd be fun for them to learn how to cut out a heart, and use patterns, lines, and paint to create a work of art around their heart!

1st grade Love Monsters

Love these "Love Monsters" I've been seeing on Instagram! Thanks @artolazzi , @mrsplouffsartclass and Painted Paper Art for the inspiration! This project was originally inspired by the book Love Monster. 

Here's how we will be creating our own!