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This homeschool art curriculum for high school will give your students a tour of great artists with picture study, art projects and an art credit.

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Student sample This project was BY FAR the most talked about lesson throughout the school year. It is best suited for upper middle school and/or high school level students. This project pushed thei…

First day of school high school art lesson ideas and creative ways to get to know your students. How to set the tone for great art making and get your students creating meaningful art with passion and purpose from the start.

Have you ever wanted to have your students create an expressive work of art, but didn't know where to start? Last year I took a workshop at the Expressive Arts Institute in San Diego. It was an amazing weekend that opened up my mind to the possibilities of working through emotions in art. There was one exercise that I really loved and I immediately saw how it could benefit teenagers. I tweaked it a little bit for my high school art class, and I can honestly say it was the best art project I…

The Circle Game asks students to come up with as many different things as they can from one circle. I thought this activity was really fun! However, my elementary students were not that interested. Most of my kids' papers were dull circles with a scribble on them. I think older kids might "get it" better. I have included the handout from Ande Cook's Art Starters as well as my lesson plan with all the directions for a sub. The Ande Cook handouts were part of a SchoolArts subscription, or you…