Middle school art

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 […]

We had a lot fun studying real candy prices as our inspiration for our Pop Art Candy Paintings. Tempra paint and black Sharpie outlines adde...

Op Art Cubes...ooooo paper sculpting idea?

Middle School students will dive right into this awesome lesson that focuses on the principle of perspective while designing a 3D looking aquarium.

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Middle School artists began the year by looking at the art Guiseppe Arcimboldo, a Renaissance painter who created portraits made up of other objects (such as fruit, vegetables and birds). The students took this concept and made it their own by filling their own silhouette with images of things that tell something about themselves. Students used pencil, ink and watercolors to complete their works.

Middle School students will love this pop art lesson that focuses on the principle of movement. It also makes a great abstract portrait that is frame-able!

Discover fun and educational art class games that you can quickly set up in minutes! These art games for the classroom help reinforce art skills while keeping students engaged and excited to learn.

It's art, it's math and it's a fine motor work out but it's also SUPER COOL! Make your own name snowflakes is a great STEAM challenge for school age kids.

We borrowed this lesson idea from the awesome Italian art blog of Arteascuola. Check out the blog here. The make-your-own scratch art surface is such a cool way to work on value, complex pattern, focal points and unity (we plan on putting these vases together as a large scale group arrangement). The original lesson from Arteascuola is here.

The New Hope Art Gallery: Middle School Art: Tint and Shade Landscapes

It’s coming up on the 2nd week of July and my brain is already starting to spin with all the "back to school" things I want to teach in my classroom.A lot of teachers spend the first month teaching and practicing procedures and expectations for their classroom. This is also a time when we are

Middle school art lesson on repetition and variation.

Curious about Waldorf Perspective Drawing for the middle school student? Check out our guide to get started! waldorfish | perspective drawing | art lesson | waldorf art | middle school art |

This year my school adopted a new schedule. Now, instead of seeing my classes daily for 47 minutes, each day we drop one period. In addition, each class has one weekly “long block” that is 68 minut…