3rd grade shape art projects

The Rolling Artroom: Shape Robots (1st-3rd Grade)

Reggie Laurent is a modern art painter who lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area. He often works on black canvas, painting his organic shapes and squiggles first in white and then covering them in colored acrylic. My fifth graders have viewed the work of Reggie Laurent, and while they would LOVE to emulate his stule of acrylic-on-canvas, it just isn't in our budget! SOOOO, we did the next best thing: cut paper on black. Students used paper from the scrap box and glued it onto a sheet of 12x18…

Hi Friends…. The past two weeks we have been working on Prefixes and Suffixes in our second-grade classroom! My kiddos were having such a good time brainstorming words with prefixes and then figuring out the meaning. They really had a strong grasp of the concept… I was pretty impressed. After our whole … Prefixes, Suffixes and a FREEBIE Just for YOU! Read More »

Students learn how to practice drawing quick rectangular shapes and paint warm and cool colors into those shapes using Paul Klee art inspiration and

2d shape circle art project

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Tessellations are a fun, hands-on way to explore STEAM, whether you are in art class, math class, or in a STEM or STEAM classroom. Certain basic shapes can be easily tessellated:

Perspective is the appearance to the eye of objects in respect to their relative distance and positions. This year we will be working with all our art classes to include perspective in our drawings. Perspective gives our drawings a 3-D (three dimensional) ...

I found this easy little hand art project on theforestroom last week and thought it would be a clean and a simple project to do in my daughter's 3rd grade class... Well, it's not as easy as it looks- they had to really concentrate to complete. This is a really clever way to also document your child's hand size/age. My lines were not the straightest! Simple Instructions: With a pencil, trace your hand & fingers perpendicular (or exactly vertical) to the paper. Start at the top of the paper…

Can you believe one project can cover primary colors, secondary colors, geometric shapes, organic shapes, line, AND pattern? This proj...

Try these simple 3D drawings for a quick and easy art and maths activity!

Free Printable Nets to make 3D shapes. Perfect hands on tool for geometry.

Fourth graders are learning all about triangles so we are INTEGRATING and doing some awesome triangle art. I found a triangle art lesson HERE and adapted it for use in a fourth grade classroom. I...

Marker and crayon

Sandra Dee on Instagram: "Check out these awesome Mary Blair castles by grade 3. Super cute pattern combos and exploration of colour families by this amazing group of artists! Markers for the win with this project. Making them slightly 3D was also a hit 🏰 . . . . . . . . . . #maryblair #maryblairart #shape #colour #line #color #colorfamilies #castle #castleart #markers #melbourneartteacher #elementaryartteacher #primaryartteacher #primaryart #elementaryart #artlessonsforkids #artlessons…