Paint a Woodland Animal on a Slice of Wood!

 Here is a video I made for my third graders.  I teach them how to paint a cute little woodland animal on a small slice of wood.

We are using these slices of wood for our annual class auction project for the school gala.  I am going to put these slices of wood at the bottom of a wooden tray and cover with resin. 🤞

I made two "How to Draw" pages of woodland animals that we are using for this lesson.

The first is "Draw Woodland Animals" like portraits.

The second is "Draw Sleeping Woodland Animals".

Here are the Wood Slices I got.  I actually purchased three different packs of three different kinds, and that link takes you to the best ones. 👍

Make a circle weaving on an Embroidery Hoop!

In this video I teach you how to use an old embroidery hoop as a loom and make a circle weaving.  

 I have a lot of old, large embroidery hoops that I once thought I would use with kids for screen printing... but never did! I came across a few interesting pictures of embroidery hoop weavings on Pinterest and decided to try it for myself. It was fun!  Plus, I got a new theme song for my videos, so this was it's premier! 

Filling Miniature Paint Pots for Second Graders

 

Here is a little video I made showing how I used miniature paint pots I got from Amazon to make custom palettes for a project my second graders are working on.  If you want to see the project they are doing, here is a video about that!

Here are the Paint Pots I got for this project.  They have worked well for teaching on a cart this year, but they are hard to open when you have to do all of them at once.  My hands started hurting opening and closing them for filling, and the second graders were completely distraught about it.  Third grade however, did fine.

Check out my classroom and procedures from 12 years ago! "Art Rules!" video - with wild original music.

I think this was pretty awesome at the time, who am I kidding... it is still awesome.  It was the early 2000's and iMovie was taking the world by storm.  This video served as a showcase of what we were doing in the art room.  I popped it on a VHS and had it running repeatedly during our open house/ art show.  The kids and the parents loved it.

My sister-in-law (the talented voice in the song!) convinced me to dig it out of hiding and post it to the YouTube.  It had been years since I watched it!  I was amazed at some of the procedures and routines I still do in the art room, and contemplated the ones that have gone by the wayside.  It has also made me want to produce an updated version.  We will have to see about that!
Finally, my husband is the most talented musician in the world.  He wrote the music just for me, but it you want to hear some of his actual music, you should visit  FlatCatsMusic.com or IceCreamVendors.net or The Astronauts.