Northern lights art lesson

Kaitlyn Edington on Instagram: "It’s time for all-time favorite (and most popular lesson)! Let’s recreate the ✨Northern Lights ✨ An absolute show stopper, complete with all the “ooohs and ahhhs” for maximum student engagement! Every kiddo is successful with this one, I promise! Just comment the word “lesson” and I’ll send you a link to my Northern Lights lesson! 🌌 Have fun!!"

92K views · 2.4K likes | Caitlyn Thompson on Instagram: "🌈 When daylight savings ends third graders brighten up the halls with Northern Lights. 🤩 I introduce this lesson with a video all about Aurora Borealis. LOVE connecting science, nature, and art!! 🖍️ We start the project by drawing the ground and trees with oil pastels, then spattering stars using toothbrushes and tempera paint. Next we add the lights with chalk pastel! 👩🏼‍🎨 And I will get to experience my favorite sound as an art…

Thank goodness we live in an age where we can get inspiration from teachers all over the world! Most art teachers are alone in their building, so we do not have the opportunity to collaborate with our peers as much as the other teachers do. I'm so blessed to live in an age where an art teacher clear across the country or world is accessible in mere seconds! We can all share our great ideas, and not have to leave the comfort of our pj's if we don't want to! Anyway.... As I was scrolling…

Northern Lights Art for Kids. A easy winter themed kids art idea that preschoolers and kindergarteners will love.

Occasionally here in Calgary we can see the Northern lights. This is the second project I'm working on with Kindergarten. I fo...

I would love to see the Aurora Borealis someday, but for now I'll settle for teaching it! I think the kids will really enjoy the freedom of this project, although we will learn about Aurora Borealis and look at photos, ultimately they will create their own colors in the sky. Materials: Black Paper Chalk Pastels Oil Pastels Pencils and erasers Paper towels I was inspired by these photos: I'll also show them this video: http://vimeo.com/21294655 Which is a gorgeous film of the Aurora Borealis…

Northern Lights Art for Kids. A easy winter themed kids art idea that preschoolers and kindergarteners will love.

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Northern lights project using paper and chalk pastel