City art project

With this marvellous warm colors and cool colors city skyline art project, kids will be able to explore the key concept of warm and cool colors in art

A blog about art making and art education explorations in a humble art room for adults and kids of all ages.

Usborne Activities’ 365 Things to Draw and Paint (Activity Books) is a great resource for art techniques and ideas. I love the look of the Futuristic Cityscape lesson and knew it would translate well for my group of 5th and 6th graders. The idea of a line drawing with shots of color appeals to me as a

Fourth grade artists have been looking at city skylines, comparing the similarities and differences between buildings. Some of their observations: Most buildings have windows, but the windows can be tall, rectangular, tiny, round, etc. Buildings have doors, but the doors can be single width and wood, double glass doors, arched, etc. All buildings have a roof, but some are flat, some are pointed, or have radio antennae or lightning rods, some have chimneys, and so on Most of the buildings are…

A simple cityscape art activity which can be used in schools. Collage cityscape at night.

These free printable 3D buildings are great for pretend play and can be used over and over again. This activity allows kids to be...

When designing the lobby of the Emerald City Theatre, the very first theater in the nation devoted solely to children ages 0 to 4, I knew it had to be

A lesson that I was sharing a lot of images from on my Instagram got a whole lot of love and questions this year and that was this Monsters in the City project! After learning about the artist Kudu-Lah, my students began by designing their cities and creating a series of monsters. I thought I'd share some images from our project but also create a video to walk you and your students through. Because these works of art were going to be apart of our Glow Gallery, I'll be sharing my favorite…