Value paintings. The activity we were doing here was started with white and black. The kids were given only 2 colors , white and black and a piece of tag board not pure white, the manila colored tag board. We started by having them make a circle of white. Which is the reason we did…
Kids Learn about Opposite Colors: Painting lessons
We did something something interesting with the kids in our painting activity today. I am trying to teach them some important basic concepts through painting so I gave them an opposite colors activity. A while back we had done an activity on how to make a color wheel so I had the children take those…
Primary color art lesson: Making a color wheel
I actually started this painting with kids activity by making color wheels with the children, giving them an empty tagboard with 8 empty circles. I realized as they were creating the color wheels that I only wanted them to make primary and secondary colors, so they would only need 6 circles. So when they finished…
2 Fall Craft Projects: Bring autumn alive with beautiful fall pictures
When thinking of fall craft projects do you think of those boring coloring page pictures of a squirrel picking acorns among leaves. The whole fall crafts is to color in the leaves in fall colors. Another classic, copycat autumn crafts project is a pumpkin. Again usually a pumpkin picture downloaded from the web. Kindergarten and…
How to make a Thanksgiving Children’s Art Mural
An art mural celebrating the first Thanksgiving is not for the faint of heart. I am suggesting recreating some kind of art mural with children to remember the first Thanksgiving. (The painting above is just one of many Thanksgiving scenes and paintings like that will be used as inspiration.) The reason that an art project…