This is a wonderful Valentine's lesson I found HERE on the Deep Space Sparkle website. It's great for teaching kids how to draw a heart as a form as opposed to a shape. I gave kids a heart shape handout to practice on. They turned this into a 3D candy heart. They then traced this onto heavier paper. I gave them a choice of media to colour them: some used pencil crayons, watercolours, watercolour pencils or tempera paint. I demonstrated how to shade them using three different values: light…

Easy Valentine's Heart Scrape Painting Craft for preschoolers and kindergarteners. A fun arts and crafts activity for kids to try this Valentine's day. #valentine #artsandcrafts #preschool #kindergarten

Heart art project. Pop art for kids. Andy Warhol for kids.

With Valentine's Day around the corner, conversation hearts are popping up on store shelves, but even if your family finds these candies chalky, you can still put them to good use!

Valentine and candy-hearts are pretty inseparable… almost as much as Thiebaud and paintings of cakes and candy. It got me thinking that maybe there is a match to be made… isn’t there? Enjoy.

Join us tonight right here at 8pm CST on Wednesday to chat about BURNOUT. We've all been there. Let's share our stories and talk about ways of lifting ourselves out of burnout and getting the fire back into our art teacherin'. See you real soon! Hey, y'all! Just thought I'd do a wee update on this incredibly fun project my students just wrapped up. They learned all about contemporary artist Peter Anton, created a heart-shaped box armature, covered it in papier mache and made fun plaster-cast…

This candy hearts lesson is a great way for kids in grades 3 and above to observe a color and try to replicate the value.