Make adorable paper popsicles using craft sticks and construction paper! Art Vocabulary: Landscape: When your paper is longer going from left to right. This is probably how you would turn your paper if you were going to draw the landscape … Read More
Your group can create a DIY kazoo with just a few materials! This is a fun musical and interactive craft for kids. Combine this craft activity with a lesson plan on music and instruments. This sounds like a kazoo because … Read More
Make a pendant necklace with polymer clay! We created these during Classical Music Day when we studied and listened to both Mozart and Beethoven, so we used musical pendants. But you can create these for any theme. Materials: Polymer Clay … Read More
I’ve been teaching art summer camps virtually this summer, which has been a new experience for me. The camp I offered was a 4-day virtual camp where each day we focused on a specific genre of music, famous musical artist … Read More
This Classical Music process art focuses more on the fun and creative expression during the process of creating rather than the focus of a perfect final product. Children can be very creative with this activity. You can glue on buttons, … Read More
This is a craft tutorial I LOVE. It’s about Graffiti Art. While I was driving my daughters around downtown Seattle, they were bothered by the graffiti on buildings and trains. So we started discussing how those people might live in … Read More
Objective: Creating ways to learn about Piet Mondrian and Primary Colors Materials: Dried Garbanzo beans (also referred to as Chickpeas) Acrylic Paint: Red, Yellow, Blue Plastic bags: one for each color Foil Sensory Tray Sensory tools like Scoops, Jumbo Tweezers, Plastic … Read More
Objective: Creating ways to think about abstract art while learning about Piet Mondrian Materials: White Canvas Board Painters Tape or Masking Tape Acrylic Paint (Red, yellow, blue, black) Paint Brush Large Art Tray Paint Tray (optional, helps to separate colors) … Read More
Objective: Creating simple sensory activities based on a theme Materials: Rice Color Splash Acrylic Paint (black, blue, purple) Sensory Bin Foam stars (or make your own DIY stars with foam sheets) Glow-in-the-Dark Paint Paint Brush Star beads (in the Halloween … Read More
Objective: Create a fun outer space themed sensory bin for parties, events or everyday play! Materials: White Rice Black Color Splash Acrylic Paint Ziploc Baggie & Foil Sensory Bin Star-shaped beads Sparkle pony beads Marbles Letter Beads Jumbo Tweezers Step … Read More
