Discover how to build your art foundation skills and express your creativity by learning different art techniques.
Picture of classroom activity Greta is a working artist and is currently attending school for art education. This is her first semester working with Art Sphere. Her goal is to inspire her students to learn about the world through art, and express themselves freely. This lesson teaches kids about composition, …
Picture of classroom activity Your Destination: As a class, create a large-scale color wheel collage with pieces of construction paper. Travel Kit: colored papers in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple scissors (optional) glue sticks large-scale (at least 24”x36”) drawing of blank color wheel on poster board, foam …
After learning about perspectives and drawing in 3 dimension, it is time to build our own houses with paints! Image from Printable Coloring Pages Students first draw the blueprint of the house by drawing a large rectangle and divide it into two parts with a straight vertical line. The first …
Your Destination: Inspired by the lion in Genevìeve Côté’s Mr. King’s Castle, create a castle using collage techniques with pre-cut triangle, square and rectangle shapes. This project reinforces shape recognition and sharpens reasoning, creative and imaginative skills. Travel Kit: Mr. King’s Castle by Genevíeve Côtè oversized construction paper pre-cut triangle, …
Image by Public Domain Pictures, License: CC0 Public Domain Your Destination: Inspired by the Peter Reynolds book, “The Dot,” create a dot masterpiece by gluing pre-cut circles in various sizes and colors onto paper. On the Path: STEP #1: Prepare the dots and frames. Using circle hole punches in various …
Your Destination: Learn how to mix the primary colors: red, yellow and blue into secondary colors: orange, green and purple. Using red, yellow and blue play dough experience color mixing through a tangible process. On the Path: Hands-On Color Mixing Step #1 Review the color wheel. Look at the …
Image from Rainbow Walking Water Science Experiment for Kids blog on Fun Learning for Kids Supplies: half sheets of papertowls plastic cups food dye water Pre-Activity Discussion: What do you think the water will do? How can the water move against gravity? Ask the students what colors they think will …
