Pumpkins are fun! Their size and color, smell and taste make them perfect for children to observe and explore. Pumpkins are a warm-season vegetable that can be grown throughout much of the United States. Besides being used as jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween, pumpkins are used to make delicious pumpkin pies, muffins, bread, cookies and soup.Pumpkins areRead More
Nature Study: Monarch Butterflies
Artists and Scientists over the years have been intrigue by the beautiful Monarch butterfly and have included them and other butterflies in many of their paintings. The Monarch butterfly is one of the most recognizable and well studied butterflies on the planet. Its orange wings are laced with black lines and bordered with white dots.Read More
Line Study: Branching Lines
Create some beautiful branching fall trees and a colorful pumpkin patch. This adorable project takes about 3 – 40 minute art sessions. Simple materials makes this a great project to study various lines. Enjoy creating your own beautiful pumpkin patch!
Nature Study: Apples
Artist Study The French artist and post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne was born on 19th January 1839. Well known for his landscape and still life paintings, he famously made the following bold statement: “With an apple I want to astonish Paris” Cézanne choose the apple because he used the apple for his artistic experiments, and hisRead More
Art History: Egyptian Mummy Cases
Egyptian Mummy Cases is the second in our Art Exploration through Time Series. Have you ever seen all the patterns and details on a Mummy Case? What are some of the unique items Ancient Egypt is known for? Come and explore Ancient Egypt and create a beautiful mummy case in the process of learning. ThisRead More
Art History: Greek Vases
Greek Vases is the third in our Art Exploration through Time Series. Students love exploring and creating with patterns. This lesson is perfect for connecting geometric shapes and patterns through Art! Simple art materials are used for this project, such as black Sharpie markers and orange/brown watercolor paints. This is a terrific project to buildRead More
Spotted Red Mushrooms
The most iconic toadstool species, the fly agaric is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually red mushroom, and is one of the most recognizable. Commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, it is also a muscimol mushroom. Found in many fairy tales illustration have fun creating some these popular mushrooms for your creative spaceRead More
Color Study: RED
Supplies • Long Pieces of White Paper • Construction Paper for Painted Paper • Tempera Paint in Red, Orange, Brown, Black and White • Paint Brushes • Glue • Crayons, Oil Pastels • Scissors Create the Background After creating the background and painted paper, let dry. Check out this post “How to Make Painted Paper”Read More
Nature Study: Sunflowers
Inspiration Orange and Yellow Sunflowers by Walasse Ting Walasse Ting was an American-Chinese artist known for his fluorescent colored paintings of cats and flowers. Born Ding Xiongquan on October 13, 1929 in Wuxi, China, though largely self-taught, Ting briefly attended the Art Academy in Shanghai. Later in the 1950s, Ting moved to New York where immersedRead More
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