Flea Fair

Grade One.
We started with a head and shoulder outline, printed on the copy machine.  We talked about eyes, noses and mouths, and I drew many types on the board for them. They drew the portraits one week, and then we talked about backgrounds the next. I asked them...

Because I have a lot of cake circles and wanted to use some of them up, as a fall project we made sunflowers on sticks. First, the students practiced drawing them on scrap paper, and actually painted the practice pieces. this took one class period. It...

The pre-k rooms in my school have three tables at which all students sit, so I created three stations--two stamping stations, and one "rolling" station where we used decorative foam rollers.  We used whole sheets of random colored  9 x 12 construction...

I wanted the students to try painting on one side of the line--in this case--the outside! The background is often ignored and appears as a big, white expanse. I wanted the students to realize the importance of the page and all that is on it. Many went...