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Review the Elements of Art with a Beachball Scavenger Hunt

By Cheryl Trowbridge 4 Comments

Review the Elements of Art with a Beach Ball Scavenger Hunt

Helping kids review the Elements of Art & Principles of Design is easy when you make a game of it! This beach ball scavenger hunt is adaptable across a wide range of ages. I’ve used it from 1st grade through high school by customizing my questions or directives for the students I’m using it with. This activity works inside or outside, whether you have just a few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Games / Activities, Elements of Art, Elements of Art, Middle School Art, More Tagged With: beachball, games, review, scavenger hunt

Use Art Postcards to Teach or Review

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Use Art Postcards to Teach or Review

Have you tried using art postcards to teach or review important art concepts? It's a fun way to expose your students to great artwork, teach or review important concepts, and provide a hands-on learning experience all at the same time. Where to find art postcards All you need is a collection of art postcards or other small reproductions of fine art. Many of my art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Challenges, Art Concepts, Art Education, Art Games / Activities, Elements of Art, Famous Artists, Style Tagged With: art concepts, art postcards, free-time activities

How to Have an Elements of Art Scavenger Hunt in a Painting

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How to Have an Elements of Art Scavenger Hunt in a Painting

An artist will combine some or all of the Elements of Art (line, shape, form, space, texture, value, color) to create a painting, drawing, or sculpture. Having an Elements of Art Scavenger Hunt in a Painting is a fun way to teach these concepts. When you teach the Elements of Art, you give your students a common vocabulary with which to talk about art. The same vocabulary … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Education, Art Games / Activities, Elements of Art, Elements of Art, Van Gogh, Vincent Tagged With: elements of art, vocabulary

5 Fun Art Ideas with Pencil and Paper

By Cheryl Trowbridge 2 Comments

A young girl drawing

If you're looking for alternatives to screentime for your kids, nothing beats going "old school" with a pencil and paper! It's amazing how much fun can be had with such simple supplies. What you'll need All you need is a pencil, some paper, a flat surface to draw on, and my free download, "5 FUN Art Activities Kids Can Do with a Pencil & Paper". An eraser can also be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paper, Art Games / Activities, Drawing, Pencil, Tips for Teaching Art Tagged With: drawing activities, drawing lessons, free download, teaching tips, tip vault, tips

Creative Extension Spinner for Early Finishers

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Creative Extension Spinner

December’s digital challenge at the Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC is all about telling stories using cardboard story wheels. For a creative twist on this theme, try extending and enhancing the meaning of your students' art using a Creative Extension Spinner.... perfect for your early finishers! If you notice an increase in early finishers at the end of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Challenges, Art Education, Art Games / Activities, Creativity, Tips for Teaching Art Tagged With: Bloom's Taxonomy, classroom management, early finishers, extensions, higher level thinking, higher order thinking, spinners

How to Learn Your Students’ Names FAST!

By Cheryl Trowbridge 5 Comments

Teachers - - - How to Learn Your Students' Names FAST!!

With each new school year, teachers everywhere face the daunting task of learning the names of all their new students. Whether you teach a single grade level class of 20 students or you teach multiple classes of art, music, or PE and see the entire school every week, you’ll want to learn your students' names fast…. and the faster the better! Why is it so important to learn … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Back to School, Art Games / Activities, Classroom Management, Fall, More, Names, Tips for Teaching Art Tagged With: learning names, remembering names

Prevent Summer Learning Loss with a ‘Retro’ Flash Card Flipper

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Prevent Summer Learning Loss with a 'Retro' Flash Card Flipper!

'Summer Learning Loss', or 'Summer Slide' as it’s also known, is not just an issue for ‘at risk’ students. All students need to practice their academic skills to keep from falling behind over summer vacation. The year I taught 2nd grade I experienced firsthand how much students can forget over the summer. We wasted much valuable time that fall doing remedial work…. re-learning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 3D / Sculpture, Art Games / Activities, Art History, Holiday / Event, Markers / Pen and Ink, Mondrian, Piet, Summer Vacation Tagged With: flash cards, math

Feed Your Creative Soul – with a Sketchbook!

By Cheryl Trowbridge 5 Comments

Sketch Books & Paint Set

Most art teachers I know struggle to find time for pursuing their own artwork.... so if that's you, you're not alone! Summertime provides a great opportunity for teachers to do things they otherwise set aside during the school year. But if we're trying to teach our students how important art is, should we really be putting off our own art until summer? (I'm speaking to myself … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Games / Activities, Books, Colored Pencil, Drawing, Inspiration, Lettering, Markers / Pen and Ink, Medium, Mixed Media, More, Painting, Pencil, Process, Sketching, Supplies / Products, Watercolor Tagged With: Moleskine, sketchbooks, waterbrush

Emergency Sub Plans

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My Pinterest Board for Sub Plans

Most schools require their teachers to keep a folder of sub plans in their classroom, which is great for that occasional illness or emergency that causes you to be away from school for a few days.  But where do you turn when life really gets in the way and your absence extends beyond the contents of your sub folder? This happened to me recently when I was called out of state … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Games / Activities, Inspiration, Lessons, Tips for Teaching Art Tagged With: Pinterest, sub plans

How to Play the Elements of Art & Principles of Design Memory Game

By Cheryl Trowbridge 12 Comments

Elelments of Art & Principles of Design Memory Game

I'm always on the lookout for creative, new ways to teach my students the Elements of Art and Principles of Design (affiliate link). You may have played a version of this game before  Recently, I attended a bridal shower where we played a memory game.... the "put-a-bunch-of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lessons, Art Challenges, Art Concepts, Art Education, Art Games / Activities, Elements of Art, Middle School Art Tagged With: elements of art, game, memory game, principles of design

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