1st grade art

From mixed media to simple sketching, there's something here for every 1st grader.

Read below student artwork to learn how students created these, what they learned about throughout the process, and see photos of students creating! When students came into the art room and sat dow…

1st graders had a blast making these line rocket ships! Lots packed into this quick lesson - shape, line, rainbow order, and… | Instagram

Create 3 boxes with 4 inch tops and 4 inch bottoms. And yes I had to teach 1st graders how to use the ruler! Then use the ruler to create horizontal and vertical lines inside your boxes. Draw a heart inside each of the 3 boxes. Color in the hearts first and then the backgrounds using a repeating checker board patten. You could have themes such as warm and cool or complementary colors. Or make it random colors! When you are finished coloring in all the spaces, flick black watered down tempera…

Keisha L. Casiano on Instagram: "Exploring the "Write" Way to Art!📝 Who knew a simple pencil could lead to a LINE-tastic adventure? 🤣 From straight-laced to curvy chaos, we've scribbled our way through it all with first grade 😄✏️✨ Project from my home girl @howgraythouart❤️😍 #arteducation #artteacher #elementaryartteacher #education #teachersofinstagram #weareteacher"

This lesson is an original by Julie Werkman, who I student taught with 25 years ago. It is a great lesson for teaching the elements of art! Line, shape, color, texture, and value are all worked in! Any fishy book of your choice maybe the inspiration! First, we paint some light to dark blue waves on a large 18x24 blue construction paper for our fish bowl. I pre-trace the fish bowl on the back of the paper before the next class, then students cut out and add seaweed and rocks! After painting a…

The August art session with my little "firsties" was a HUGE success. We created "Wild About 1st Grade" self-portraits. They turned out so dang cute! It was a lot of fun to combine some guided art along with "do your own thing" directions. The bulletin board is adorable. We'll be adding their writing prompt responses to "I'm WILD About 1st Grade Because..." as soon as we finish the edit process. I created a file with the guided art directions, supply list, and writing prompts. Feel free to…

This is a great project to try at the beginning of the year or as your students are reviewing the alphabet and beginning to learn to write words and phrases. I got this idea from the book Dynamic Art Projects for Children. Ours are not exactly as the ones in this book, but very similar. We started by looking at the art of Stuart Davis and reading the phrases, words and numbers that we saw in his artwork. The … Read more... →

This first grade lesson took about (2) 40 minute art classes to create. Students first learned about the artist Sanford Biggers and we discussed his AMAZING artwork. We also discussed how we’d be u…