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5 Amazing Winter Art Projects for Adapted Art Class
Check out this list of 5 amazing winter art projects that are perfect for your Adapted art class! Full of sensory exploration, process based goodness, and lots of opportunity for creative expression and fun!
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Winter Animal Burrow Art Lesson Tutorial
Looking for the perfect art lesson and creative exercise for students of all ages for the winter? Well let's go down the rabbit hole (literally) and draw a winter burrow landscape scene. Full of creative opportunities, story telling, literary connections and more! This winter art lesson is one of my favorites!
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Winter Wonderland Drawing Guide!
Meet the new Winter Wonderland drawing guide from Art with Mrs. E! Now you can easily learn how to draw kids having SNOW much fun, all things warm and cozy and so much more! Perfect for artists of all ages!
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The Ultimate Gift Guide for Your Creative Kid!
Meet your one stop shop for all of my favorite art supplies and open ended toys for encouraging and fostering creative thinking! In this guide you will find my favorite art supplies, blocks, tables, books and more!
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Scarf Selfie Winter Art Lesson!
Meet one of your new favorite art lessons for kids! Students will create a scarf selfie (or "scarfie") art project with a focus on line, shape and pattern all will using one of the most fun art techniques called scratch art. This lesson is perfect for elementary students of all ages and can be modified and adjusted with ease.
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Drawing Challenge: 20 Minutes of Gratitude
Join me in the "20 Minutes of Gratitude" drawing challenge this month. November is the perfect month to reflect on all the things we are thankful for and what better way to insert some mindfulness by capturing these mini moments of gratitude in our sketchbook! To learn more about this challenge head to my blog post!
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There's a Monster In My Closet Lesson!
This Monster in My Closet art lesson has been one of my students' absolute favorites over the years! A perfect lesson for drawing creativity out of even the most hesitant young artists. With a focus on line, shape, and texture your students will be engaged the entire time they are creating!
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Art with Mrs. E Workshops!
Join me for my first art workshop with a project titled "Growth Mindset". An exploration of gouache paint and botanicals to make a silhouette painting of a loved one.
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Watercolor Cityscape Art Lesson
If you're looking for a great lesson to start the year off with your elementary school students, I've got the perfect art project for you! WIth a focus on line, shape, unity, and repetition this watercolor cityscape lesson is great for all ages.
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My Favorite Supplies as an Artist
Here are my absolutely favorite art supplies that I use and swear by as an art teacher and artist! Everything from my favorite watercolors, to sketchbooks, pens, colored pencils and more! This blog will take the guess work out of "what supplies should I get? I don't know where to start" and help you start your journey!
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How to Make Sensory Bottles for Adapted Art
Creating sensory bottles is one of the best projects to do at the start of the year in adapted art class. Here are the easy steps you can follow to create sensory bottles with your students.
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10 Picture Books to Pair with Your Next Self Portrait Lesson
If you're anything like me, you enjoy a good hook at the start of a lesson. Something that will lure the kiddos in, grab their interest and keep them engaged throughout the upcoming project. For me, 9/10 that hook involves a picture book. I teach self portraits with almost every grade, sometimes multiple times a year (I just LOVE to see their growth and how they represent themselves) so it's important to me to have a variety of great picture books up my sleeve to read not only at the start of a lesson, but throughout the project. Below you will find a list of just SOME of my favorite picture books that I like to read throughout a self portrait lesson. Here are my top 10 Favorite Picture Books to Pair with Self Portrait Lessons 1. What I Like About Me by Allia Nolan. 2. You are Enough by Margaret O’Hair, 3. I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont 4. The Color of Us by Karen Katz 5. The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler 6. It’s Ok to Be Different by Todd Parr 7. Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton 8. Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho 9. Becoming Vanessa by Vanessa Brantley-Newton 10. That's Not My Name by Anoosha Syed I hope you find this list of books celebrating our identity to be helpful the next time you teach a self portrait lesson! If you are looking for some tips on best practices when teaching self portraits, be sure to check out my blog "8 Tips For Teaching Self Portraits" here . You can also grab my Advanced Self Portrait Guide or Simple Self Portrait Guide here! Happy Teaching (and Reading!)
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