8th grade art projects

What do giant snack bags have to do with art? They are POP ART! Eighth grade took a look at pop artists, such as Andy Warhol, and we discussed popular culture. Some times labels, such as Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, can be used for pop art. Eighth grade paired up into groups of two or three to create these giant snacks. Students brought in what ever type of snack bag they wanted to mimic. We used folding and measuring to try and match our snack bags. After painting the large paper we…

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Our complex color wheels are done! So are our color theory musical symbols with "vibration" lines. After two weeks of painting we need to do something else. It should be time for clay, or tin tooling or something! But, even thought I gave her my supply order 7 weeks ago, the secretary STILL has not sent it to the school district warehouse, the only place I can get art supplies with school money. So these projects feature a lot of drawing, pencil, marker and pen. We are out of oil pastel…

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So this is a really fun project that I did with my 8th grade students just this last quarter. I had never done this project before but I got...

These close-up oil pastel drawings were inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe and the way she focuses on the details of an object. 8th grader...

8th Graders used patterns and visual textures to create designs called Zentangles. These types of patterns are characterized by the repetition and movement of lines. Students also worked with...

Click on the links below to access lesson plans for projects this semester. Lessons will be added after they have been introduced in class.

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Sculpt Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired flowers, draw Warhol pop art, and color graffiti breakdancers with these awesome fifth grade art projects.

We love art projects for middle schoolers that require patience, creativity, and even communication. To begin, students are tasked with coming up with a design for a playing card that involves an animal. They initially design just the top part of the playing card and then use tracing paper to replicate the design onto the rest of the card. Finally, pair up students and have them explain how to execute their original design to someone else.

8th grade students looked at the optical illusions of Victor Vasarely and then discussed how optical illusions are created. From this we lo...

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These recycled art project ideas turn everyday household objects and trash into gorgeously colorful art you'll actually want to use in your own art.

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Grade Level Duration 4 classes, 80 minutes Materials Graph paper (buy or make your own online here), acrylic Paint, ghost grid posterboard (Poster board featuring a faint, disappearing grid), square dowel cut down to make a stamp (same size as the grids on the poster board), printer, pencil, palette Media Acrylic Paint Lesson Objectives For […]

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