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....
by Dennas Davis | Feb 25, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW After having total freedom of choice to create a watercolor painting, Students then get to choose even more fun art projects. Stations are set up around the room and young artists have lots of opportunities to create and explore new ideas. There is even a fun...
by Dennas Davis | Feb 23, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will have fun making bouncy spiral snakes with their own designs by drawing on our printed pdf snake templates. Then everyone is introduced to clay with playdough for a warmup, before moving into an 3D project of an animal that they’ll be able to...
