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I was so in love with these painted paper flowers with coffee filter centers created by  Bess and her students and found over at It's a HSES Arty Party! I knew I had to have my students create some smaller versions.  Class One: We first started with liquid watercolors and coffee filters. Students just drizzled the watercolors across the filters then painted with water to dilute the

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Welcome to our annual Fine Arts Festival celebrating Youth Art Month, Fairy Tales and Fables.  Here are just a few photos of our fun filled night. Every child had at least 2 projects up most had 4-5 projects. The projects stay up for over a month.  Stay tuned for more photos!  Hallway outside my classroom.  Displays at the end of the hallway -These are everywhere! 125 were created.

2nd grade students created Jack and the Beanstalk with a giant.  They loved making their funny face giants! Who wouldn't love these crazy guys looking at them?  Production Day 1 After reading the classic story Jack and the Beanstalk, students created the beanstalk out of paper towels and painted leaves. Next, students added Jack, which was made out of painted paper and construction

Have you ever wondered what the path to grandma’s house would look like in  the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood? I read to the students Little Red Riding Hood written by Brothers Grimm with illustrations  done by Bernadette Watts.  The drawings in this book are so delicate I wanted my students to create their own version of a delicate field of flowers and trees. Production

Wow, I can not believe that I have 600 followers today. I remember seeing fun art blogs and hoping to one day figure out the whole blogging process. A couple of years later, and many new friends I am tickled pink that our Art Education on-line community has grown to be a fantastic source for art educators, educators, parents or anyone who loves to create art with children.  To all my

What’s a Viking without a Viking ship? After making our vikings we needed to add some sort of transportation to our Viking mural. I saw this photo of Viking Ships by Maureen. She had created them with her class a while back and posted on flickr.  Check out her blog. Her projects are really colorful and unique! I wanted to change her viking ships up a tad so I had the students in 4th grade use