by Dennas Davis | Apr 15, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will use lots of layers of colored papers to create a wonderful landscape collage. Circles can be stacked for colorful clouds and hills. Cutting and pasting is always a great art project. – – – Grades K – 2 Week of April 20...
by Dennas Davis | Apr 8, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW To understand the basic idea of drawing from a viewpoint (perspective), artists need to learn how to look. Students are introduced to the ideas of viewpoints using a viewfinder tube (Frame-O-Scope). Then we introduce two artist’s tricks to show near and far....
by Dennas Davis | Apr 1, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will make an art sculpture by cutting and pasting to create a 3D stack of shapes and color. They’ll be using paper they’ve colored and drawing on themselves. They’ll also have time for a fun artist game today. – – – Grades K-2 Week...
by Dennas Davis | Mar 25, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will use magazines and catalogs, as well as their own picture, to make a cut and paste collage. They will use lots of smaller pictures to create a new picture of themselves in a fun place they’d like to go. – – – Grades K – 2...
by Dennas Davis | Mar 18, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will have tons of fun creating a full-body selfie in markers. Then they learn all about the skeleton and body proportions, with an interactive art project using oil pastels, markers, cut paper and interchangeable parts that reveal the bones in the...
by Dennas Davis | Mar 4, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students learn about 2 important, yet different types of drawing: expressive work from memory, and more realistic work using observation. The main point is that these are both valid directions to take, but that they don’t tend to mix well in one piece of art....
