Children will love the rebellious nature of protagonist Elsa in the book, Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli. Art teachers will love how Elsa was inspired by artists... Learn More
In this lesson, your students will pretend to be a fashion designer who has the task of creating their own unique clothing design. After drawing a large-scale figure with accurate... Learn More
What’s not to love about a lesson that combines fashion with a famous artist? With this watercolor lesson, your students can pretend to be fashion designers, focusing on watercolor techniques... Learn More
This is a simple lesson focusing on proportions by drawing a fashion figure, also known as a “croquis” In proportions, a typical human body has “7 heads”, but for this... Learn More
Elizabethan clothing styles used rich, elegant materials such as fur, velvet, silk and lace. Not wanting to be mistaken as lower class, the upper class made sure to wear fancy,... Learn More
Fashion made easy! Kids use the pre-drawn fashion plates to create their own Pucci-inspired fashions. Trace the plates with a pencil and use markers to create and color your own... Learn More
In this lesson your students will be surfboard designers! They will get to choose the lines and patterns that will decorate their three surfboards on the beach. Use this collage... Learn More
Cook Island tivaevae is truly an art form. Tivaevae artists create very colorful patchwork quilts by hand. They were traditionally made by women from Polynesia who would usually work in... Learn More
This project uses a combination of watercolor paints and colored pencils. This is one of my favorite ways to use colored pencils as it isn’t necessary to color in large... Learn More
Here is a quick and easy watercolor resist lesson that children will love… drawing and painting a platypus! They will love learning about this funny-looking animal from Australia while experiencing... Learn More
Art projects don’t come more colorful than this! Students learn about coral reefs through children’s books such as Life in a Coral Reef by Wendy Pfeffer or Peek Inside Coral... Learn More
In this lesson, children learn to draw a simple line drawing of a space shuttle using a guide or a template with oil pastel or crayon. They also explore the... Learn More
This lesson celebrates the art of American author and illustrator Ashley Bryan and has been inspired by his picture book Beautiful Blackbird. Students will focus on cutting, pasting, repetition, balance... Learn More
Learning how to manipulate paper into shapes and then placing them on a piece of paper to create an object is a big deal for young children. In this lesson... Learn More
This lesson is a wonderful addition to your Black History Month collection of lessons. Children learn about the author/illustrator Ashley Bryan while creating a composition that emphasizes painting with watercolors,... Learn More
My goal with this lesson was to teach my fifth graders about Horace Pippin, a relatively unknown American painter and how every artist’s journey is different. The book A Splash of... Learn More
Every teacher has their pet projects, projects that they talk about most often. Mine are the ceramic tile mural projects that I did with the sixth grade classes every year at... Learn More
In this lesson, children create a portrait of surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí. Using only white paper, black oil pastel and black chalk, this striking portrait can be as simple or... Learn More