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...
by Dennas Davis | Feb 11, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Young artists will have a blast learning how printmaking works and creating their own sets of images. Stations make it easy and keeps everyone moving as they draw ideas, make printing plates from styrofoam, then add ink, and print them onto paper. Then they...
by Dennas Davis | Feb 4, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Everyone loves elephants! Artists learn how to draw a cartoon version, which also helps them learn how to simplify. Then they will have a chance to draw and paint more realistically, and in the process learn how to mix blacks and grays. – –...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 28, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students learn how the concept of harmony applies to visual art just like music. A flower is drawn from reference and painted as a spectrum in watercolor for color-wheel flowers. The arrangement of the colors is used to show harmony, along with some games of...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 21, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Balance in real life is understandable, but what about visual balance? Students learn that people like to see things that look balanced so they don’t feel like they might fall over if they were real. Several exercises, a slideshow, and projects help with...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 14, 2026 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Using some simple big shapes and line, artists will draw and paint a bird. There is a background done with streaked colors and then the bird is drawn, glued to the background, and painted to match. During part of the lesson, we discuss and learn about...
