Teach Kids to Make Landscapes

How to Teach Kids to Make Landscapes I sat down to write this post on how to teach kids to make landscapes for TAB teachers as it is

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The Painting Center in my TAB classroom

The Painting Ce​nter in my TAB Classroom The Painting Center was the third center I introduced after the collage center and the drawing center. The poster below is

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Painting from primaries to secondaries: (revisited)

I've been doing tray painting with kids for years. I wrote about tray painting in this kindergarten art lesson and this painting for kids post. I would have

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Georgia O’Keefe style watercolor flowers

I must admit that even though it says this activity was of  Georgia O'Keefe watercolor flowers, I was not teaching them about Georgia O'Keefe. I just liked the

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Making shades and tints: Extending the color mixing experience

This activity is actually a continuation of the first class I did with these first graders when they learned to mix colors and  make a color wheel .

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Observational drawings painted in with watercolors (art class lesson 6)

Today I decided to try observational drawings with the girls. I collected a bunch of items from around my house as you see above and told the girls

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Using watercolors to create landscapes plus making grid drawings(art class lesson 5)

It turns out that some of the girls are having a hard time with some of the drawing exercises I have been giving them. To lighten things up

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Copying designs and beginning watercolors (art class lesson 4)

My quest to uncover the best way for children to copy what they are seeing continues. I started this class by giving them the sheet above. Each girl

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The beginning of a new art class

This past Sunday was the first of a new series of art classes that I am running in my home. One of my objectives with this art class

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Literacy based art projects: We started with dots

We recently finished a wonderful summer in our art camp. Every summer we collect the artwork the children do and make a book out of their work. Last

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