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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Square 1 Art!

 


Square 1 Art Fundraiser is Back! 🎨✨

This week in the art room, our students began working on their Square 1 Art projects! Each child is creating a special piece of artwork that will be turned into keepsakes for families to enjoy. From mugs and ornaments to tote bags and stickers, there are so many fun products available—perfect for gifts or for cherishing your child’s creativity at home.

The best part? All products will ship for FREE, just in time for Christmas! 🎁 That means families can order unique, personalized holiday gifts while also supporting our school.

Why does this fundraiser matter?
Our school serves over 800 students, and every single one of them benefits from a fully stocked art room. The money raised through Square 1 Art goes directly toward buying essential art supplies—paper, paints, brushes, markers, oil pastels and more—so that every student has the tools they need to express themselves creatively.

We can’t wait to see all of the incredible artwork your children are creating. Be on the lookout for order forms and online access codes coming home in November!

Thank you for supporting the arts at our school and helping to keep creativity alive for every student. 💛

Here’s what we’re working on! 

Supplies:

Pencils, permanent markers, oil pastels, watercolor paint, tempera paint, twistables, and paint sticks

5th grade-Their favorite animal
They can bring their laptop, and find images or a how to video, on their favorite animal.


4th grade-Monarchs & Marigolds
They're watching a quick video on Dia de los Muertos and the monarch migration, and then we're drawing our own, step by step! We were inspired by this Art for Kids Hub video. 

3rd grade-Crouching tiger
We'll be drawing a tiger step by step together, following my Youtube video on how to draw a tiger. 
They're starting out with a circle, and my favorite circle tracers can be found here! 

2nd grade-Cardinal
We're following along with Art Land's, "How to draw a winter cardinal" video, and creating our own!

1st grade-Expression Suns
They'll create their own sun, using the circle tracers here, and then add their own style rays, and facial expressions. 

Stay tuned for Kindergarten's! We've got some practicing to do first :) 
























Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Monochromatic Self Portraits


This year, I wanted to make a collaborative piece of art, to kick off the new year. I also wanted to create something that wasn't too tricky for the kids, while we got back into the swing of things and went over expectations and procedures in the art room, as well. 

We got our inspiration from a few talented art teachers and students. Here's some great blogs you can get inspiration from too! 

Mrs. Detrich Art

Cassie Stephens 

Mrs. Hutchison Art

Here's all you need:

Sunday, June 1, 2025

2nd grade cardboard castle prints


This week in art class, our amazing 2nd graders studied the colorful, geometric work of Swiss-German artist Paul Klee— especially his painting “Castle and Sun.” Klee loved using shapes, color, and imagination to build dreamy cities and abstract scenes.

Take a look at his original masterpiece below:

Paul Klee, “Castle and Sun,” 1928

Sweet Treats & Bold Colors: Wayne Thiebaud-Inspired Ice Cream Art




This week in our elementary art room, we dove into the colorful world of Wayne Thiebaud, an American artist known for his whimsical, dessert-themed paintings full of rich color, bold shadows, and delicious detail. Our young artists created their own vibrant ice cream cone drawings using oil pastels on black construction paper, and the results are as sweet as the inspiration!

This lesson came from the fabulous art teacher Joel Scholten! You can download his ice cream templates here!  

Friday, February 14, 2025

Chris Uphues & Jen Stark inspired Valentine’s Art!



Today, 4th grade learned about the artists Chris Uphues and Jen Stark! We looked at examples of their art, and got to work on our own! This project came from The Busy Brushes, and came in handy for Valentine’s Day! 

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Jim Dine Inspired Tissue Paper Hearts




 Soon, 3rd grade will start this fun and colorful project inspired by the artist Jim Dine, and the amazing elementary art LauraLee Chambers. (Btw, You can find her on instagram at 2art.chambers)

Here’s the materials you need

90lb paper

Bleeding tissue paper

Paintbrushes 

Paint sticks

Oil pastels

Day 1: We’ll look at images of Jim Dine’s art, and create our tissue paper background. 





Day 2: We’ll make the heart by fold some scrap paper, tracing it onto the background, and coloring it with paint sticks and pastels!







Here’s the full video tutorial on YouTube!