Elementary landscape art project

Understanding space – foreground, middle ground, background as well as overlapping can be quite challenging for elementary kids. This assignment aimed at demystifying the concepts through a f…

These landscape watercolor paintings inspired by Claude Monet and the Impressionists are sure to bring calm to your classroom ! When goin...

Hey, y'all! Welcome to another installment of my Back to Art Teacherin' series! I kicked off this series with a lil What to Wear-ness and a Giveaway where y'all had to indulge me in your fave back-to-school-clothes shopping stories. I loved each and everyone but I gotta say, this one from Michelle was one of my faves: My favorite, and most embarrassing, back-to-school memory involves my dad taking me and my two sisters shopping for back to school clothes...way back in the eighties! There was…

My second graders recently learned about simple ways to show depth in an artwork. I gave a demonstration on my new document camera and showed them how rivers and roads that go back in space would be wider in the front and narrower in the back. I demonstrated how things that were far in the distance would be smaller than things in the front. The use of overlap is also a way to show depth. I showed the students this … Read more... →

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The inspiration for this lesson is the beautiful Sonoran desert where I live in Tucson, Arizona. Pop art landscapes are fun for kids to paint because they are full of colors and patterns and encourage children to use their imaginations! When you teach your students about landscapes, you’ll introduce them to the main parts of a landscape. Those are foreground, middleground, and background. This lesson is also a video. Children can follow along with opportunities to pause along the way.

Make a fun 3-D landscape of your habitat in science class. | elementary lesson plan

Cassie Stephens on Instagram: “🏞A landscape has three parts:a foreground, middle-ground and a background. In this landscape pop-up, you can easily create those three…”

partner activity- laminate photos and have students use expo markers to outline the three different parts of a landscape.

Who doesn’t love patterns? Two things that my students are great at are Painting and Patterns! In class we discuss what is a symbol versus a pattern? What is a complex pattern? What is a mot…

Create colorful landscapes with this easy, inexpensive kids art project. This no-scissors-necessary craft uses scrap paper and glue sticks and can be used as a fun twist on a four seasons craft. Explore texture, color schemes, and geography while making beautiful collages. Great for an easy paper art lesson for classrooms or rainy day art-making at home! | Kids art projects | Elementary art lesson | Kindergarten Art | Seasons craft | from barley & birch

This Torn Paper Mountain Landscape Art project creates a unique visual for kids when learning about faith to “move a mountain,” mountain landforms — or any other mountain lesson.

“It’s my private mountain. It belongs to me. God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it.” Georgia O’Keeffe P...

Landscape, depth, repetition, watercolor, middle school art lesson

Grant Wood 3D Landscape Art Activity