1st grade shape art lesson

For me it is always a challenge to keep up with Kindergarten art projects. I see my classes twice per week for 40 minutes, so they get to do a lot of art! They go through lessons and projects quickly, their attention spans are short and they have difficulty sometimes with very basic skills. Here are three Kindergarten art lessons that are fairly easy to prepare for, teach important art concepts and use the same selection of materials. The first … Read more... →

Kindergarteners created art in the style of Paul Klee. We read "The Cat and the Bird: A Children's Book inspired by Paul Klee" and we looked at the actual painting by Klee titled "The Cat and the Bird." We talked about abstract art (art that doesn't look as real as a photograph) and how some abstract artists like Klee like to use lots of shapes in their artwork. For this project we focused on learning the difference between a line and a shape. Then we moved on to the difference between…

Draw a Lava Lamp! The Lava inside with Free Form/Organic Shapes and the Lamp and background with Geometric Shapes!

To study shapes and lines, Kindergarten students experimented with cutting out different colored shapes, and used brightly colored markers to trace around them. Students cut out squares, triangles...

7 page PDF printable art lesson plan for elementary school. Shape Cat is a Shape Art Lesson Plan for elementary school Easy, no prep. Simple materials, no mess. Suitable for student from Grade 2 to Grade 4, but could be used with students of different year levels. Clear printable lesson plan instructions - suitable for Sub teachers Examples Materials list Extension Suggestions 1 pages of Geometric shapes to print onto dark pink/purple colored paper for the dark parts of the shape cat and 1…

2d shape circle art project

Tracy Boberg Nichols on Instagram: "My 1st graders made these fun shape people today. I just gave them a template with some geometric shapes and they did the rest. The lesson and template is in my TPT shop. 👍 . . . . . #1stgradeart #kidsart #kidsartclass #kidsactivityideas #kidscraftideas ##artprojects #artlessonsforkids #artlessons #homeschoolart #artteachersofinstagram #kidsartclass #artcurriculum #homeschoolart #homeschoolartclass #elementaryart #artteachersofinstagram #2ndgradeart…

Reggie Laurent is a modern art painter who lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area. He often works on black canvas, painting his organic shapes and squiggles first in white and then covering them in colored acrylic. My fifth graders have viewed the work of Reggie Laurent, and while they would LOVE to emulate his stule of acrylic-on-canvas, it just isn't in our budget! SOOOO, we did the next best thing: cut paper on black. Students used paper from the scrap box and glued it onto a sheet of 12x18…