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Here are some process art ideas for summer. Happy holidays children 😊  🏊‍♀️🏄‍♂️🍧  Use your time wisely; read and revise and do ART as well 🎨  Remember that Art is fun 😉

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Summer is the perfect time for process art! Actually, any time is a great time for process art, but something about the slow, lazy days of summer make it even more inviting. So many process art projects work best outdoors where kids can get messy, so warmer weather is a plus. Any of these Process Art Activities For Summer would be a great way to spend some time with your kids!

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Just click on the activity title below each image collage to learn more about the project.

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Summer Process Art | What Can We Do With Paper And Glue

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Summer is the perfect time for process art! Actually, any time is a great time for process art, but something about the slow, lazy days of summer make it even more inviting. So many process art projects work best outdoors where kids can get messy, so warmer weather is a plus.

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Draw a fish and stamp it with pieces of celery dipped in paint.

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Hi friends! This month the Kids Craft Starsgroup challenge was to make something out of veggie/fruit stamps! I grabbed my celery from the fridge and we made a nice bright rainbow fish craft! This is one of my favorite activities so far :-)
Materials Needed:
Here's a video tutorial...

Cut up one stick of celery into 6 pieces. Put out rainbow colored paints and have the kids dip each one.

Starting from the front of the fish, stamp the celery to make it look like fish scales!

The kids can also paint the fins and tail if they want!

Check out the other Fruit and Vegetable Stamping Crafts:

Potato Stamped Ladybug Cards | Glued to My Crafts

Stamped Carrot Bugs Craft | Artsy Momma

Brussel Sprout Stamped Bunny | I Heart Crafty Things

Potato Stamped Pandas Craft | I Heart Arts N Crafts

Bell Pepper Stamping Bug Craft | A Little Pinch of Perfect

Magically Appearing Fruit & Vegetable Prints | Pink Stripey Socks

Stamped Onion Prints (Snails & Wall Art) | Fun Hamdprint Art

Okra & French Beans Spring Flowers | Artsy Craftsy Mom

Fruit Stamped Lunch Bag | Hello Wonderful

Veggie Stamping with Okra | In The Playroom
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Celery Stamping Rainbow Fish Craft for Kids - Crafty Morning

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Hi friends! This month the Kids Craft Starsgroup challenge was to make something out of veggie/fruit stamps! I grabbed my celery from the fridge and we made a nice bright rainbow fish craft! This is one of my favorite activities so far :-) Materials Needed: Here's a video tutorial...

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If you're looking for a fun paint project, it doesn't get much better than these Fork Painted Monsters! These colorful, furry monsters are perfect for the fall season, as a Halloween craft, but monster crafts are great any time of year.

Fork painting is an easy way to achieve a fun result without the real need for artistic ability. So it's great for kids just getting used to working with paint. We still love this Fork Painted Ostrich that we created awhile back. These Fork Painted Monsters are sure to be a favorite, too! And, little ones get to learn about shapes while making their monsters.

First and foremost, you will need paint for our Fork Painted Monsters. Lots of different colors of paint. The rest of the supplies include a fork to paint with and make the monsters furry. Also, googly eyes in varying sizes, white cardstock, a black sharpie, scissors, and glue.

Fork Painted Monsters
Supplies needed:

Fork

Acrylic paint, assorted colors

Googly eyes, varying sizes

White cardstock

Black sharpie

Scissors

Glue

Begin by creating the shapes of your monsters.

Squares, circles, ovals, triangles, diamonds, pentagons, rectangles. All you need to do is draw a shape with a black sharpie on a sheet of white cardstock and make a set of simple arms and legs. I found that 2 monsters work well on one sheet, but you could make a single large monster, too.

Now, dip a fork in a squirt of paint and begin making the monster.

Use the tines of the fork to make a furry look. Let the paint dry.

Draw a monster mouth on another sheet of white cardstock. Make the lines thick enough to cut out.

Glue a googly eye in place. Large eyes, multiple smaller eyes. Whatever your monster has going on. And glue on the monster mouth.

A simple and oh, so fun paint craft! I absolutely love these furry monsters! Be sure to check out more of our Halloween crafts at Our Kid Things!

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If you're looking for a fun paint project, it doesn't get much better than these Fork Painted Monsters! These colorful, furry monsters are perfect for the fall season, as a Halloween craft, but monster crafts are great any time of year. Fork painting is an easy way to achieve a fun result without the real need for artistic ability.

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This chalk pastel fireworks art is so cool! The bright pastels really pop on the black paper and creating the fireworks designs is so fun for kids. This is an easy and quick art project that is perfect for New Years, the 4th of July, Canada Day or any celebration that uses fireworks.

Pastels are so fun for kids to explore! Take a look at my collection of chalk pastel art for more creative ideas kids will love.

Kids can really use their creativity with this pastel project and choose their fireworks colors and designs to make their artwork unique! We looked at a lot of fireworks photos before starting this project for inspiration.

There are some really cool fireworks photos that will help to inspire kids to create their own amazing artwork!

If you are looking for more New Year's crafts to make, take a look at this New Year's Eve wand craft and this 3D paper fireworks craft that kids will also love!

Tips for working with chalk pastels

Chalk pastels can be messy (but so fun!). There are a few things you can do to keep some of the mess contained:

Put newspaper down on desks or tables

Put your project on a tray or a shallow cardboard box which will keep most of the mess inside the tray

You can try doing your project outside

Have lots of paper towels handy

Once you are done with your project (or even halfway through if it gets really dusty), take it outside to gently blow or shake off the excess dust

If you are using chalk pastels in the classroom and the kids are ready to take their artwork home, simply place the art between some newspaper to keep it from smudging and for easy transport.

Create your own chalk pastel fireworks art

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Supplies

Instructions to make your fireworks art

1. Draw in some fireworks lines in a burst pattern with a pencil on your black paper. Drawing a bigger firework in the center and a few small ones around it is a nice layout, but kids can choose to draw them however they like.

When you are drawing your fireworks, you don't need to draw in every single line, just a few lines for each firework will help to make things easier when adding in the chalk pastel colors.

We used black drawing paper for this project, but you could also use black pastel paper, scrapbook or even black construction paper. The chalk pastels will look slightly different on each type of paper, but will still look great!

2. Choose two to three pastel colors for each firework drawing. White pastel will be added on top of that. So each firework will have three to four total colors.

I find this a good amount for the colors to be layered on top of each other for a nice effect. Too many colors can get messy and not look as bright and crisp.

Start with one color and holding the pastel like a pencil, trace over your fireworks line drawing. Draw more fireworks lines with another color and then add in your third color if you are using it.

3. Finish off your firework by drawing in a few lines of white pastel on top, following the firework burst pattern. You only need to draw in a few lines of white to add to the brightness of your firework.

4. Next, move on to the smaller fireworks. We used two similar shades for our smaller fireworks and added white on top. We also added white pastel to the ends of some of the fireworks.

5. Kids can try experimenting with their own firework designs. There are lots of different ways kids can express their creativity and design their own type of fireworks!

Once kids start looking at fireworks photos and drawing their own designs, they will want to make more than one art project!

6. For the final touch to your art project, add in some small white dots in a few places on your paper. This will add to the overall effect of the fireworks.

I love how fun and colorful this chalk pastel fireworks art turned out! The bright colors on the black paper really pop and the fireworks designs are so fun for kids to make they will want to make more than one!

More chalk pastel art kids will love
Winter Snow Globe Craft with Chalk Pastels

5 Essential Chalk Pastel Techniques for Beginners

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Festive Chalk Pastel Fireworks Art Project

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This chalk pastel fireworks art is so cool! The bright pastels really pop on the black paper and creating the fireworks designs is so fun for kids. This is an easy and quick art project that is perfect for New Years, the 4th of July, Canada Day or any celebration that uses fireworks.

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Coffee art is a great activity to do at home, especially if you don't have any paint. This coffee art is inspired by looking at tree bark. To complete this activity you are going to need:

*Instant coffee works best but if you don't have it try really, really strong espresso.

Read through all the stages of this process and then come back to the beginning and re-read the stages and complete them as you go along.

First, draw a very light spiral on your page. It needs to be light as you are going to erase this line. Next, go around the outside of the spiral with a wiggling line so you end up with something that looks like the image on the right below.

Next, look at all the shapes that you can see in the bark below.

In the spiral you have drawn, draw shapes inspired by the bark above. Save the above image to a device so you can easily view it when you are drawing. Look at how the shapes, inspired by bark, have been drawn inside the spiral below.

When you have filled your spiral with shapes it should look like the image below.

Go over your pencil lines with a black ballpoint pen. Sometimes ballpoint pen can look a little grey. Go over the lines more than once if necessary to ensure your lines are black.

When you have finished, rub out your pencil lines. You won't be able to rub them out after you have applied the coffee. Your drawing should look like the spiral below.

Mix up some instant coffee that is roughly one part coffee to 2 part water. Carefully paint in three of your sections. Crush some of the instant coffee granules so they are really fine and sprinkle them on the wet coffee. The granules will bleed into the wet coffee creating an interesting texture.

Continue painting 3 or 4 sections at a time and then sprinkling with crushed coffee.

When the spiral is complete, it should look like the picture below.

Now you need to paint in the background. Protect the pages beneath with some newspaper or scrap paper. Don't worry if the coffee pools a little bit as this adds to the interesting texture.

Finally, mix up some really, really strong, instant coffee. You need over 50% coffee in the mixture. Add the dark coffee around the edge of the spiral, dabbing it on. Your finished artwork will look something like the image below.

How will you be assessed? When I mark your work I will be looking to see:

Has it been painted so that the white lines show clearly?

Is the pen work smooth and black?

Are the shapes inside the spiral, like bark?

Have the coffee sprinkles only be used on the spiral?

Has a darker tone/value of coffee been used outside of the spiral?

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Abstract Coffee Art - Home Learning Activity - The Arty Teacher

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Coffee art is a great activity to do at home, especially if you don't have any paint. This coffee art is inspired by looking at tree bark. To complete this activity you are going to need: *Instant coffee works best but if you don't have it try really, really strong espresso.

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You will design a sailboat drawing by rolling the die and collecting the different patterns required to create it. First, trace the sailboat shape onto another sheet of heavy white drawing paper. Next, roll the die to select the first pattern from the first column and draw it in one of the areas of the sailboat. Roll the die four more times, drawing each selected pattern in one of the other areas. Using washable markers, outline everything. Be sure to outline large areas where they meet parts of the design.

Dip a small brush in water and carefully smudge it in the marker lines to paint in the shapes. If you need to neatly add more “paint” to larger areas, smudge some marker on a scrap piece of paper and use that as a paint palette. Allow each area to dry slightly before moving on to a neighboring area of the design. When dry, cut it out. If you’re short on time, design directly onto the print out from page 4 and color with dry media such as markers, crayons, and colored pencils.

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Year 3 - Recycled Spray and Squeeze Art Painting

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Year 3 - Recycled Spray and Squeeze Art Painting

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Did you know that some of the best kids art making tools can actually be found in your fridge and cupboard?

Basically anything that you can spray or squeeze can be filled with paint and used to make amazing abstract art. Think tomato sauce, mayonnaise, squeeze honey bottles, moisturizer, stain remover, cleaning spray etc.

This is a guaranteed kid pleaser in our house, and trust me, my 4 year old is a harsh critic with a very short attention span.

Recycled Spray and Squeeze Cardboard Art Painting - Materials:
- Assorted spray and squeeze bottles

- Paint (any kind will do)

- Water

- Recycled cardboard or fabric

Step 1. First start by thoroughly cleaning out the bottles that you will be using.

Step 2. Pour the paint into the bottles carefully by hand, or use a funnel if you have one handy.

Step 3. Add water to you desired consistency. This part is really about personal preference. I find the paint sprays better with about a 70/30 paint to water ratio but I love the squeeze bottles full strength to create really dramatic lines. You can water the paint down quite a lot though and you will just get a more watercolor kind of effect, which can be really lovely.

Step 4. Set up your painting area. Place the cardboard or fabric that you will be painting down on either grass or a prepared drop sheet. This can get messy so make sure you remove any white washing from the vicinity!

Step 5. Get painting!! It's best not to plan this too much, maybe put on some music to energize the mood and then just let the little people go for it. Actually, you will probably want to get in on this too, it is F.U.N.

How gorgeous are these splatter patterns and textures?

Have you tried squeeze and spray painting before? Check out more action art projects and lots more creative ideas for kids.

Susie Rugg, the creative mind behind the crazy fun Handy with Scissors is a Sydney based mum and maker with a passion for turning 'junk' into art. She has a degree in Object Art from the University of Sydney and when not at home trying to get her reluctant 3 year old excited about craft, she hangs out at The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia where she is the Children and Families Coordinator. Follow Susie on her creative adventures on Instagram and her blog.

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Did you know that some of the best kids art making tools can actually be found in your fridge and cupboard? Basically anything that you can spray or squeeze can be filled with paint and used to make amazing abstract art. Think tomato sauce, mayonnaise, squeeze honey bottles, moisturizer, stain remover, cleaning spray etc.

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An explosion of colour
In Henri Matisse’s Open Window, Collioure the casements of a large French window project toward us to reveal an explosion of brilliant Mediterranean colour. The paint is applied very loosely. The painting looks as if it were made yesterday, and in some places (like the lower right where bare canvas is visible), seems unfinished. We can envision Matisse’s working process brushstroke by brushstroke, and we are there with him responding with excitement to the wealth of colour and light at a Mediterranean seaside town in summer.

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-henri-matisse  Click on this link to learn more about Matisse.

Let's draw a window with a view inspired by the painting of French artist Henri Matisse.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmgOmNAdhfE   This link will show you how to draw the window.
After drawing the window start to draw the view.  Drawing objects in different sizes will make your picture look more real. Larger objects come toward us, smaller objects recede (look further away).

Overlapping:  Objects placed in the very front appear to be the closest, object placed behind several objects appear to be in the background.

Colouring: Lighter colours come forward, darker colours recede.

DETAIL: Objects in the foreground have much more detail (sharper) than objects in the far background. Backgrounds tend to be slightly out of focus.

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Romero Britto - Meet the Most Licensed Artist in History - Great Big Story

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Popular art or pop art is a movement that started in the 1950s and 1960s which started in America and Europe. This movement was basically a reaction against the traditional art ways.
Romero Britto is a Brazilian artist. He was born in 1963 in grew up an extremely modest lifestyle amongst eight brothers and sisters in Recife Brazil. He drew and painted on any scrap of newspaper or cardboard he could find and filled them with colourful images of a beautiful world.
In 1983 Britto travelled to Europe to study the old masters. After this trip, he traveled to the USA where Pop Art was flourishing. He opened a gallery in Miami. In 1989, Absolut Vodka selected Britto to design an artwork with their famous logo. From that moment the name Britto was known to a greater public. His artwork are now represented in galleries and museums across five continents.

Look at artwork of Britto on his gallery. Observe the salient features: bright colours, simple shapes, the work is divided into sections that are filled with patterns, thick black outlines. The artist creates a difference between the drawn picture and the background. Note the stylistic characteristics and where to classify this artist (Pop Art, Cubism).

Draw a pair of flip flops as big as the page.  Divide the drawing surface with pencil and ruler in several sections by drawing two diagonal lines from the top to the bottom of the page and another two diagonal lines from the left to the right of the page.  Add big patterns to the picture.  Change the pattern every time you meet the lines. Trace all lines with a waterproof black marker and then colour them with markers in the way Britto did.

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Zentangle is an art form that anyone of any age or skill can enjoy. Zentangle is an American method for drawing, which not only promotes concentration and creativity but at the same time increases personal well-being. Zentangle was invented by a monk named Rick Roberts and an artist named Maria Thomas. With Zentangle they created a combination of meditation and art.

Create your own zentangle pineapple. You can outline in black marker or use coloured markers.

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You can draw yourself or a friend eating watermelon.  

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You can draw yourself or a friend eating watermelon.  

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How to Draw a Panda Eating Watermelon Easy | Summer Art Series #6

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Get ideas from the different suns below and create your own sun.

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HOW TO DRAW A SUN WITH SUNGLASSES ~ KIDS

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Year 6 - Dali' elephants
Learn about Salvador Dali' https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-salvador-dali and Surrealism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YE_Zas-A5A
Draw surrealist elephant. Use your imaginations to come up with your own surrealist masterpiece. Here are some examples of Dali' style elephants.

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Abstract art is modern art which does not represent images of our everyday world.

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Abstract art is modern art which does not represent images of our everyday world.

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Year 5 - Abstract selfies - Sandra Silberzweig - the work she has done to share her experience with synesthesia and how she has turned this condition into a driving force for her creative work.

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Year 5 - Abstract selfies - Sandra Silberzweig - the work she has done to share her experience with synesthesia and how she has turned this condition into a driving force for her creative work.

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Create portraits that are bold, colourful and imaginative.

Choose warm and cool colour combinations and create beautiful patterns.

Add ideas and details.

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Let's learn about Salvador Dali' and get inspired to take part in the Art Competition about Dreams.

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Let's learn about Salvador Dali' and get inspired to take part in the Art Competition about Dreams.

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Salvador Dalí made paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he had. Find out more about Salvador Dali' by clicking on this link

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Salvador Dalí made paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he had. He painted melting clocks and floating eyes, clouds that look like faces and rocks that look like bodies.

Sounds weird right? Think about what your paintings would look like if you painted your dreams? I bet they would be pretty weird too!

Dalí was involved with surrealism. This was an art movement where painters made dream-like scenes and showed situations that would be bizarre or impossible in real life. Look at this painting above - does the lake look like a fish to you?

This sculpture above is by another famous surrealist artist called René Magritte. I wonder why he has painted a head full of clouds?

Surrealist artists were influenced by a famous psychoanalyst called Sigmund Freud. A psychoanalyst is a doctor who studies the human mind and tries to understand it. Freud believed our mind was divided into two parts: the conscious part and the unconscious part. The conscious mind is what we use to make decisions every day, like whether we walk or ride a bike to school. The unconscious mind is where our memories are stored. Most of the time we are not aware of our unconscious mind, but sometimes the memories stored there get mixed up in our dreams and this is what Dalí tried to paint.

Dalí was born in 1904 in Figueres, Spain which is near the Pyrenees Mountains. Surrounded by this landscape as he was growing up, Dalí often included the scenery he saw as a boy in his paintings.

Look at the painting above. Can you see the Spanish landscape in the background? The hand holding the egg mirrors the man sitting in the water. There are a lot of odd things going on in the background that don't seem to be connected. What else can you see?

Salvador Dalí was a very eccentric man. Here is a picture of him

You can always recognise him because he has a funny moustache. He liked to dress in crazy clothes and have long hair which people found very shocking at the time.

Dalí was even expelled from art school just before his final exams because he said that none of the teachers were qualified to examine him. Cheeky!

Salvador Dalí went to Paris after leaving art school, which was where he met the surrealists. The surrealists appealed to his wild sense of humour, they invented surrealist games and enjoyed putting different objects together to make something playful and disturbing at the same time. Here is Dalí's version of a surrealist sculpture. It is called Lobster Telephone. You couldn't call anything on that!

What two objects would you put together to create a surreal sculpture?

In 1936 the Spanish Civil War broke out and Dalí was greatly affected by it. This is a painting Dalí made about the war.

The background is mainly brown, yellow and black, representing the Spanish landscape. The strange forms in the foreground represent a man and a woman. It's pretty gross, but they are eating bits of each other's flesh with a knife, a fork and a spoon. Dalí uses this shocking idea to say something very powerful and important. He is saying that by fighting, the Spanish people are destroying their country and each other.

When Dalí was in Paris he also made a film with the director Luis Buñuel called Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog). It was the first surrealist film and had no plot, just a series of scenes that only slightly link together. Later, Dalí went to Hollywood and worked on other films with famous directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney.

Dalí liked to use lots of different materials to make art, including paint, sculpture and film. He even designed furniture, jewels and scenery for theatre production. He was a man of many talents and he is still seen as a great artist who influences many artists today!

What do you think of Dalí's artwork? Is it funny, weird...scary?

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Salvador Dalí made paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he had. He painted melting clocks and floating eyes, clouds that look like faces and rocks that look like bodies. Sounds weird right? Think about what your paintings would look like if you painted your dreams? I bet they would be pretty weird too!

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Who was Claude Monet?
Let's learn about French artist Claude Monet and draw sailing boats just like he did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ror9hsf1Ryc

We will learn how to create distance in a picture. Drawing objects in different sizes will make our picture look more real. Larger objects come toward us, smaller objects recede (look further away).

Overlapping:  Objects placed in the very front appear to be the closest, object placed behind several objects appear to be in the background.

Colouring: Lighter colours come forward, darker colours recede.

DETAIL: Objects in the foreground have much more detail (sharper) than objects in the far background. Backgrounds tend to be slightly out of focus.

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Join Mati and Dada and enter directly into a Paul Klee' s dream, with strange puppets, flying fishes and a funny walzer to sing along all together! https://www.yout
ube.com/watch?v=eqHJ9gDLkL8
Then draw the Cat and the bird.  Start by drawing a simple illustration of a cat head using ovals, triangles, straight lines, + curved lines.

Outline with a black marker.   The entire illustration will be covered with a watercolour wash in many beautiful colours. Watch this clip to see how to draw and paint the Cat and the Bird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdkapFIIVgM

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Staying at home creative project ideas

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Staying at home creative project ideas

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Staying at home creative project ideas

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Staying at home creative project ideas

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Children would you like to participate in a creative project that will be uploaded on a new university-led website? The Faculty of Education (University of Malta) is soon launching a new Outreach website to shareknowledge and to invite students to exchange their work with each other. The theme of the project is Staying at Home.  Draw a picture about your  experience of staying at home, hobbies you are engaging in, friends you meet online or miss, challenges during the pandemic, etc.    Send me a  photo of the finished work. Deadline: 10 June 2020. You can get ideas from the above and below  pictures.  Remember to create your own unique picture.  You can use any medium to finish the picture; pencil colours, crayons, oil pastels, watercolours, poster paint, chalk pastels, etc.  You can even use more than one medium.

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Staying at home creative project ideas

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How to create colour gradation (the gradual mixing of one color into another) to obtain the visual effects of the dragon eyes on the right. 

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How to create colour gradation (the gradual mixing of one color into another) to obtain the visual effects of the dragon eyes on the right. 

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Watch the videoclip How to draw dragon eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajgasxmb5yc to draw the dragon. Note the thin and thick lines.

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Learn about tree frogs by clicking on this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42GAn4v5MgE.  Watch the video clip bleow and draw a tree frog.

Add texture by following the instructions in this link https://thecraftyclassroom.com/tree-frog-oil-pastel/?GD_NONCE=7a327d2239

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How to draw a tiger face

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Check out these tiger facts on: https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/animals/tiger-facts.aspx
Draw a tiger and create texture by drawing thick black jagged lines for the fur.  You can use black paint or oil pastels. Add more texture by gluing leaves.

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Year 4 - Meet French artist Henri Rousseau

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Year 4 - Meet French artist Henri Rousseau

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Art with Mati and Dada   Henri Rousseau Edited

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Year 3 - How to draw a giraffe for those kids who would like to draw the giraffe.

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Year 3 - How to draw a giraffe for those kids who would like to draw the giraffe.

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Year 3 -  Paper tearing and shadow tracing Art  https://taminglittlemonsters.com/african-sunset-shadow-tracing-art/

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Year 3 -  Paper tearing and shadow tracing Art  https://taminglittlemonsters.com/african-sunset-shadow-tracing-art/

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Follow the above link to create an african sunset.  Remember to use warm colours for the sunset (red, orange and yellow). If you don't have coloured paper you can use paint or colour with crayons or oil pastels.

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Different poses can be created with a simple twist and turn of the main body and head (see the video above).

Get creative. The video shows how this template can be used to create 4 cat poses, can tyou make anymore?

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Add texture by gluing coloured paper strips.

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Year 1 - Let's draw a hedgehog with Louie 

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Year 1 - Let's draw a hedgehog with Louie 

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This game uses regular dice to look at and discover  the different elements used by famous artists as well as the opportunity to create your own version.

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Let's learn about Wayne Thiebaud and his paintings of food, then use his style to paint colourful desserts.

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Wayne Thiebaud also loved to paint cakes. Older students can draw a cake with a slice missing and make it as colourful as can be.

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Year 3 and year 4 students can have a go at these different cupcakes.  Which one do you prefer?  Remember to use th whole space of the page so that the cupcake looks nicer and yummier :)

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Year 5 and year 6 students can draw cupcakes in the sytle of Wayne Thiebaud. Frame it  by gluing it to a construction paper which is a little bigger than the painting.  Write a short poem or a message at the back to turn it into a Mother's day card.

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How to Draw the perfect Heart Symbol (EASY - Step by Step) Tutorial

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Cut pieces of coloured paper and glue them in a way to frame the heart before giving it to mummy or nanna.

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Using the patterns in the 5 small boxes at the bottom of the page, fill in the different parts of the heart picture.  Every time you run into a black line you need to change your pattern.  You can create patterns of your own.  Some areas can be coloured or painted in one solid colour  to break up the patterns.

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More Heart Art ideas for older students - Op Art Bulging Hearts 

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More Heart Art ideas for older students - Op Art Bulging Hearts 

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Op art is short for 'optical art'. The word optical is used to describe things that relate to how we see. Have you seen an optical Illusion before? Op art works in a similar way. Artists use shapes, colours and patterns in special ways to create images that look as if they are moving or blurring.
Create bulging hearts by drawing straight lines outside the heart and curved lines inside the heart.

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bulging heart craft | Op art lessons, Art worksheets, Kids art projects

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Jan 31, 2018 - This Pin was discovered by Lory Chaplin. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest

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3 dimensional faces - having three dimensions (such as height, width and depth), like any faces in the real world.

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3 dimensional faces - having three dimensions (such as height, width and depth), like any faces in the real world.

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Heart Art for mother's day - Paint a heart that looks like stained glass. Write a lovely message at the back and make it a Mother's Day gift.

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Heart Art for mother's day - Paint a heart that looks like stained glass. Write a lovely message at the back and make it a Mother's Day gift.

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This geometric heart painting is inspired by stained glass. Watercolor paints and black glue make this multimedia project bright and beautiful!

Supplies for this geometric heart painting...

The star of this project is black glue. The black glue doesn't serve as an adhesive at all but rather serves as a drawing tools that resists the watercolor paint. Check out this post on black glue to see how to whip up your own bottle of black glue.

You'll need somewhat sturdy paper to handle the glue and the moisture of the watercolor. Student grade watercolor paper is ideal but card stock is a reasonable substitute.

The color is thank to watercolor paints. These watercolor paints are my favorite- they're so brilliant and have so many beautiful colors. If you're looking for a student grade watercolor I love these Crayola paints!

How to draw a geometric heart...

Start by discussing the basic heart shape. It's symmetrical so whatever your kiddos draw on one side they'll need to repeat the mirror image of that shape on the other side of the heart.

A heart is generally curved but for this stained glass inspired project each curved edge is going to be replaced with a flat line. That means lots of short straight lines will replace the smooth outline of the heart.

Encourage your kiddos to draw the outline of their geometric heart big, big enough to fill the page! Draw lightly, with pencil. (My lines are drawn with Sharpie for the purposes of showing you all my drawings a little more clearly!)

How to add dimension to a geometric heart...

Once the jagged outline of the heart is complete it's time to add some dimension to the inside of the heart- think facets of a diamond. There's no one right way to divide up the interior space. You can either set your kiddos free with a pencil and ruler and allow them to imagine how those different facets might meet up or work together, starting from a center point.

While drawing more facets will make the geometric heart more interesting too many lines too close together will make it difficult to outline the lines with black glue.

Using a ruler, continue those facet lines from the edge of the geometric heart off the edge of the paper. Dividing up the background will allow a greater number of spaces to be filled with colors!

Creating the stained glass effect with black glue...

Before beginning to outline your heart experiment with the bottle of black glue on a scrap paper to find the sweet spot for how open the glue nozzle should be to get that smooth line. Practice drawing lines with the nozzle never touching the paper but hovering just above it.

Once you're comfortable it's time to outline each of those lines in the heart drawing with the black glue. I suggest starting toward the center and working outwards. This makes it less likely for a hand to land in the wet glue.

When all lines have been traced with glue remember that these drawings will need to lay flat to dry. Most traditional drying racks tilt paintings which, in this case, would result in a puddle of glue!

Choosing a color scheme for your heart painting....

This is a great opportunity to let your kids choose a color scheme of their own or come up with one together. In the example below I've used cool colors to paint the heart itself and warm colors to paint the background. I think this really makes the heart shape "pop" from the background.

I considered doing tints and shades of one color for the heart and different values of another color for the background. There's no wrong answer to choosing a color scheme but it is worth putting a little thought into before beginning to paint!

Painting your heart...

I love combining black glue and watercolors. Watercolors tend to run into each other and can sometimes get muddy. The dry lines of glue create a "fence" that keeps the watercolor paint wherever your student puts it.

The glue outlines provide the perfect opportunity for placing contrasting colors next to one another- with no fear of getting muddy, mixed colors. Colors will stay clear and bright and where you put them!

Other projects that feature glue in a starring role....

This chalk leaf drawing features glue outlines.

Draw a spiderweb with glue.

Use paper snowflakes as stencils for this snowflake chalk drawing.

If this heart painting inspired you I hope you'll share this post on your favorite social media channel!

Every single share helps me to grow and bring you more fun projects and free printable resources!

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How to Paint a Heart that Looks Like Stained Glass - The Kitchen Table Classroom

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This geometric heart painting is inspired by stained glass. Watercolor paints and black glue make this multimedia project bright and beautiful! The star of this project is black glue. The black glue doesn't serve as an adhesive at all but rather serves as a drawing tools that resists the watercolor paint.

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Wax resist/crayon resist painting - a fun and magical activity

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Wax resist/crayon resist painting - a fun and magical activity

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Crayon or wax resist is when the oil or wax from the crayon repels the watercolour away from it. Create a magical activity by using a white crayon and see what happens when you paint over it with watercolours.

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Salt and watercolour painting.  Salt absorbs water to create this magnificent effect.

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Salt and watercolour painting.  Salt absorbs water to create this magnificent effect.

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Crayon etching art For kids/crayon etching art technique

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The students can use the roll and draw sheet and dice to roll for the vase design and the design of 3 flowers.

The students could turn the sunflower into a wide variety of finished art projects.

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Art With Mati & Dada  – VanGogh | Kids Animated Short Stories in English

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'Loving Vincent' is the world's first fully painted feature film. It tells the story of the last years of Vincent van Gogh's life.

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'Loving Vincent' is the world's first fully painted feature film. It tells the story of the last years of Vincent van Gogh's life.

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Editor's note: This story was originally published in October 2017. Loving Vincent has just been nominated for Best Animated Feature Film in the 2018 Academy Awards.
"I saw 50 or 60 painters painting, and someone told me: 'Oh it's you! I've been painting you for six months.' Probably a lot of them knew my face better than I," jokes Robert Gulaczyk, who plays Vincent van Gogh in a new animation - the world's first fully painted feature film.

More than 100 artists from all over the world created the 65,000 paintings that make up Loving Vincent. "We were told many times by film financiers, by people in the animation industry, that this was a crazy undertaking - and also an impossible undertaking," says co-director Hugh Welchman in this video. Yet that didn't deter Welchman, who co-produced the Oscar-winning animated short Peter and the Wolf. "When you start to break it down, it's just a matter of how many painters you can find - and if you can find enough painters at the quality level we needed."

He was convinced that "people in this media-saturated world like to see something original" - and helped co-director Dorota Kobiela to finish a project she'd begun. "It was meant to be a seven-minute short film that transformed into a feature film," she says. "I couldn't paint it by myself any longer because that would have taken me 80 years."

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Loving Vincent: The film made entirely of oil paintings

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Editor's note: This story was originally published in October 2017. Loving Vincent has just been nominated for Best Animated Feature Film in the 2018 Academy Awards. "I saw 50 or 60 painters painting, and someone told me: 'Oh it's you! I've been painting you for six months.'

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Year 5 - Draw large flowers in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe

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Year 5 - Draw large flowers in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe

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Year 3 and year 4 students can draw and paint a fishbowl inspired by Henri Matisse.  Matisse loved to use bright colours in his paintings, and he liked to include patterns. Create a colourful picture with nice patterns just like Matisse did.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Mati and Dada, where learning meets creativity and imagination. Seven year old Mati, a cheerful young girl with a zesty passion for art,is magically transported into the lives of great artists by her eccentric sidekick, Dada. Together these two friends go on exciting adventures, solving little mysteries and getting caught up in bumbling confusions, en route to learning about art from the masters. Watch Mati and Dada to learn about French artist Henri Matisse.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Mati and Dada, where learning meets creativity and imagination. Seven year old Mati, a cheerful young girl with a zesty passion for art,is magically transported into the lives of great artists by her eccentric sidekick, Dada. Together these two friends go on excitin…

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Butterflies for year 2 and year 3 students

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Butterflies for year 2 and year 3 students

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Observe the different bodies, wings, eyes, mouths and feelers. Create your own butterfly by drawing different body parts.  Experiment with designs and colours. Turn it into a collage by gluing pipe cleaners, beads, sequins, buttons and googly eyes to the picture.

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Louie is a educational pre-school animated TV series that teaches children how to draw! Every week, the very young students can discover full new episodes in HD of Louie and Yoko and practice their  drawing and colouring skills. They will learn to draw animals, landscapes, a house or even a place.

By talking directly to the children and giving them time to think and do things, Louie and Yoko encourage and actively engage the young viewers. The children become truly involved with the characters and are able to take part in all of their exciting adventures.

The children are also stimulated to create the drawings from the series, at the same time as their heroes. What's more, with Louie, kids not only learn how to draw, but also understand the difference between round/square, cold/hot, fast/slow etc…  In addition, after coloring their drawing, Louie takes them through the steps one more time.

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Louie is looking for a beautiful present to give to his mummy. He needs to find something that is pretty and smells nice like his mummy. Louie draws some flowers, but they are too beautiful to be picked. Louie goes to find his mum so that she can admire the beautiful flowerbed that he has prepared.

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Flower - Louie draw me a flower | Learn to draw, cartoon for children

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Creative thinking Art challenges that can be done at home

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Year 1 and Year 2 students can learn about Textures by watching and listening to this song.

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Year 1 and Year 2 students can learn about Textures by watching and listening to this song.

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Learn Textures Children's Song | Five Senses Song for Kids and Babies by Patty Shukla

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The Texture Song is suitable for students from year 3 upwards.

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The Texture Song is suitable for students from year 3 upwards.

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The Texture Song | Art Songs | Scratch Garden

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Texture monster. Use different lines and shapes to create different textures.

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This power point presentation is suitable for year 4, 5 and 6 students