Artsonia After School Art Club: Paint a Peacock with Me!

I spent some time this summer making more videos... but this time not for my awesome YouTube Channel... but for Artsonia's.

My first video was the one I sent in as the "audition" I guess... and you had to introduce yourself and it seemed weird.  I talk in weird voices and make faces all the time to a group of kids and never have to watch myself doing it.  The project is good though.  I wanted to teach a nice simple concept, and I wanted to make sure that I was catering to kids doing art at home.  It works. And I'm hilarious.  It's also the only one that has a cool soundtrack, because they told us not to add music to the rest ☹️




The videos get more and more embarrassing after this one! My daughters are looking into the witness protection program.  I can't wait till they publish more. 😶😃

Spoopy (spooky) Silhouettes - Printable Lesson, Tacer, & Clipart for Halloween

Last year I was asked to leave an art project for the 5-8th grade to do during their Halloween Party/free time afternoon.  Unlike what sometimes happens, I did not get a classroom full of kiddos in head-to-toe costume dropped off to have art class in lieu of their party...or after their party.  

I did not want to leave something lame, but I didn't want to leave anything too involved since I wasn't going to be there.  Hence, Spoopy Silhouettes was born.

It's a classic Pinterest project.  All I've done is put it into one nice downloadable package for you. This is a nice one to do on Halloween when you do have to teach, but you don't dare touch those beautiful landscapes the kids have been working on for weeks, or get out the chalk pastel self-portraits.

The lesson includes:

2 page printable instructions

1 tracer

10 pages of halloween clipart - from the internet, I just curated them for this project.  I did not draw them!

You will need:

Sharpie Marker

Scissors

Liquid School Glue

Coffee filters

Pencils

Watercolor Paints & supplies

Black Construction Paper

Crayons

We put our coffee filters on the air vents to dry quickly! 

Happy Halloween!

Warm vs. Cool Clor Dinosaur Silhouettes and Free How to Draw Dinosaurs downloads

Second grade learns about warm and cool colors by watercolor painting colorful washes.  We thoroughly discuss why colors have temperatures and why artists use these different colors to convey feelings.

Being cart based, I opted not to have second grade use watercolor for their backgrounds - rather we drew interesting line designs with crayons and filled white space up with color.  We didn't get a chance to discover new colors that happens when mixing paint, but we did get the chance to categorize our crayons by temperature.

When our pages were colored, second grade practiced drawing dinosaurs.  I had put together some packets of dinosaur pictures as well as how to draw pages.  Here are a few pages I got from Dover Publications.
How to draw a Brachiosaurus 

How to draw an Albertasaurus

How to draw a T-Rex

We next discussed our parts to composition and created a prehistoric silhouette over our crayon designs with black construction paper.