This comprehensive art curriculum can easily be integrated into any teacher's existing instruction and provides thrilling and rewarding projects for elementary art students, including printmaking techniques, tessellations, watercolors, calligraphic lines, organic form sculptures, and value collages. Detailed lessons--developed and tested in classrooms over many years--build on one another in a logical progression and explore the elements of texture, color, shape, line, form, and value, and principles such as balance (formal, informal and radial, ) unity, contrast, movement, distortion, emphasis, pattern and rhythm. Each lesson also represents an interdisciplinary approach that improves general vocabulary and supports science, math, social studies, and language arts. Though written for elementary school teachers, it can be easily condensed and adapted for middle or even high school students. A beautiful eight-page color insert demonstrates just how sophisticated young children's art can be when kids are given the opportunity to develop their skills.

ArtWorks for Kids presents 68 art experiences that children will delight in doing and be proud to show off. Each two-page lesson features: - a full-color example of the project - art vocabulary and questions to present - a materials list - tips to make the lesson proceed smoothly - step-by-step illustrated instructions Each section of the book contains art experiences using the following art mediums: - Painting--12 projects including tempera and watercolor - Weaving--7 projects including weaving with paper and with yarn - Clay--13 projects including pottery and animals - Printing--11 projects including cookie-cutter prints and nature prints - Recyclables--13 projects including 3-D decorations from magazines and luminaries from "tin" cans - Nature--12 projects including handmade paper and sand candles

A back-to-basics look at the fundamental concepts, conventions and theory that should be considered when creating art.

This comprehensive, up-to-date art methods text presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources for art teaching in elementary through middle school.

Art Teacherin' 101 is a book for all elementary art teachers, new and seasoned, to learn all things art teacherin' from classroom management, to taming the kindergarten beast, landing that dream job, taking on a student-teacher, setting up an art room and beyond. It's author, Cassie Stephens, has been an elementary art teacher for over 22 years and shares all that she's learned as an art educator. Art teachers, home school parents and classroom teachers alike will find tried and true ways to make art and creating a magical experience for the young artists in their life.

This revised edition of Teaching Art in the Elementary School extends and further develops the fundamental principles of art education presented in the first edition. The revised edition provides additional contemporary art experiences that are outcomes of experimentation with new art materials, of changes and growths in children's interests, and of new techniques for developing activities. Motivation, release, accomplishment, satisfaction -- these constitute the cycle of an art experience and are recurrent in the kindergarten and elementary school life of the child. The experiences recorded in this book attempt to show the role of the teacher in helping the child to realize his potential and aesthetic strengths. - Preface.