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If you are searching for unique art projects for your student(s), we’ve got a creative cubism art project for kids! Don’t let the art term fool you into thinking it’s hard! With our easy step by step instructions along with video tutorial, it’s well worth the time.

What is Cubism Art?

What is cubism art? The cubism style of painting was developed in the early 1900’s. Many artists put together a variety of objects or figures, which resulted in paintings appearing fragmented and abstracted. You may have heard of some of these famous artists including Pablo Picasso and George Braque.

Why is it called Cubism?

The cubism term was used and seemed appropriate due to the objects in the art — they looked like cubes or geometrical shapes.

Whether you are looking for oil pastel art for kids or geometric art type projects, this activity is perfect for introducing the beautiful creations of art.

Cubism Art Project Materials

Giraffe Cubism Art Instructions

  1. Print out Cubism Art with Giraffe Blank Template.
  2. Using a ruler, draw several diagonal lines across the template. See video for visual.

3. Beginning with the top, begin to outline the ears with an orange pastel crayon.

4. Using a Q-Tip, fill in the remaining white space with the chosen pastel color.

5. Continue to follow the pattern shown on video to determine appropriate colors for each section of the giraffe.

6. Using various shades of yellow, red, brown, green, blue and purple, continue to use the correct pastel colors along with outlining and filling in remaining white space with Q-Tips.

7. Work your way down the art canvas until complete.

8. Getting close to the end! Grab a light green and dark green pastel to wrap up the gorgeous Cubism creation.

9. As you wrap up and finish the pastel colors, glue it onto black cardstock paper or construction paper to display or give as a gift!

Wassily Kandinsky Art Project for Kids

Fun Abstract Art for Kids! We’ve created a simple, yet fun, Kandinsky art project for students learning about abstract art! With this low-prep art project, your kiddos will make a TON of Kandinsky circles. These addiciting concentric circles will soon take over your classroom! But don’t worry, they look amazing when displayed together in groups, you’ll have your own Kandinsky Mural by the time your kids are finished.

Abstract Art for Kids

Not only will your art room be filled with pops of vibrant color, but your students will be working on fine motor and key art techniques along the way! Best of all this low-prep project requires minimal supplies, and is a TON of fun!

Kandinsky Circles Art Project

Step 1:

This project requires multiple colors of soft craft foam. You can certainly use vibrant cardstock paper, or construction paper if that is what you have on hand. However, the foam adds a 3-D element to these projects and you’ll see that the thickness helps the layers stick together in the coming steps.

Step 2:

Have your student cut out a variety of circle shapes from all of the different colors. Cutting foam is FAN-diddly-TASTIC for young artists and budding fine motor skills. However, you can certainly cut these circles ahead of time (HINT: I’ve got an amazingly handy alternative tip for helping students get the correct sizes for the circles……keep reading……

Step 3:

So, once you have the foam circles all cut out, assembly couldn’t be easier. Your kiddos will take a small metal brad, and poke it through the center of the smallest circle they want on top. This again, is another fun fine motor skill for the younger crowd.

Step 4:

Now, choose the next color for the circle and POKE the brad through that layer. Can you see where this is headed here?

Check out those fabulous circles of color! I’m feeling a bit of a Willy Wonka vibe with these complementary colors! Show children how they can pair these complementary colors next to each other to make them pop!

Step 5:

Once you’ve added all your layers of circles, flip the entire project over and fold the brads to secure the layers. This will keep the circles tightly attached, and you’ll find you can even turn them and rearrange them slightly to get the effect you’re looking for.

Have fun with the color combinations and really try for some bright, abstract creations! Dont’ worry if the circles are not perfectly shaped….they actually look BETTER when they are organic.

Kandinsky Circles Have Never Been so SIMPLE!

Are you ready for that HANDY TIP I promised you! Well here it is. After you poke the first circle through, you can actually just poke the foam sheet itself. Then you can easily see the size of the circle that you want to cut for your next layer. GENIUS right? I didn’t realize it till the end….but I got there folks and I have a concept photo to prove it. This will be especially helpful for the younger kiddos to (NOT WASTE any of the FOAM) see the size they need next.

Check out those colors!

Because we used vibrant foam, the colors just POP right out of the photo……where is a school bulletin board when you need one?

Kandinsky Collage Anyone?

I’m even LOVING the scraps of rainbow foam! These could easily be used to create a 3-D Collage the next day. How beautiful would that look on a black background. You could even find a way to tie in some Matisse art projects with those paper cuttings.

If you want to finish the work with a more polished look, you can frame your circles by mounting them to more colored foam. You can even overlap some of the circles for a fun look. Choose background colors that complement your circles to really make them pop!

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Van Gogh Oil Pastel Project

VanGoghPotatoPinFor children who want to explore more then just Van Gogh’s Starry Night, you might introduce them to The Potato Eaters. This is such a great painting to study, not only in context, but in color, and movement as well. We used the book, “What Makes a Van Gogh” for reference.
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Materials:

 

Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

Vangoghcolors    Vangogh2    VanGogh1    SeuratArt

Art Project Tutorial:

We are going to use our Oil Pastels. This is our recommended set of pastels from Crayola. You get a larger crayon, a variety of colors and the price is right. We've had this set for over two years and we still have huge crayons left.

Look closely at The Potato Eaters. We're going to be focusing on the hanging light in the middle of the picture. Take note of how the light is shown on the women's faces, and their backs are dark with shadow.

We're going to make the background first. Choose neutral colors, like grey, black, brown. Also choose some yellows, greens, purples to add dimension. Look closely at Van Gogh's painting for other hints of color.

Add in layers of color by using the broad side of your crayon, up and down the paper. When you get your colors laid down, use your fingers to blend the background. I added a layer of gold right before I blended.

It's time to draw! Use a pencil and sketch out the outline of the handing oil lamp. It doesn't have to be perfect, in fact if you look closely at the painting you'll notice that it's a tad bent and not exactly symetrical.

Your pencil drawing will lightly show up over your oil pastel. Draw your entire picture before we color it in.

Using your Black, Fill in the shadow areas of the oil lamp. Study the painting to really see where the colors of black are.

Add in some light! Use your hues of yellow to fill in the underside of the lamp shade. You might find it hard to color a light color over your dark background. You can press hard, or use your fingernail to scratch away the background first.

Move to the base of your lamp. Notice how the colors blends horizontally across from white/yellow/black. Use what you know about blending, and your fingernail to scratch out some white areas.

Continue your horizontal blending all the way up your lamp base. Color in the knob, and the flame of the lamp. You can see that it's like an elongated triangle. Pull rays with your yellows and your fingernail. Not to many, just enough to show that it's flickering.

Use your fingernail and go around the metal wire surrounding the lamp. Then study the painting. Use your yellow and black in the appropriate areas around the wire. Play special attention to what areas are lit with yellow and what areas fall into the shadow with black.

Use your yellows and go around your lamp adding color to your background. Try to think about what area would be the most lit up and blend in some yellows into that area. I even added some more black to my corners so that I can draw the eye toward the center light.

All Done

Framing your project in black construction paper would look really nice

Matisse Art Project for Kids

MatissePinMatisse had a very colorful style to his artwork, and in his later years he used paper cut-out arranged on canvas to create beautiful, fluid scenes. Use our templates or your own precut designes to provide younger children with a simple cut and paste activity. Older children can be encouraged to draw with their scissors

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Materials:

Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

Matisse4    Matisse5   Matisse22    Matisse1

Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Gather up a bunch of colored construction paper....the brighter the better.

Step 2

Cut out a variety of shapes, if you have younger children help them with the more intricate cut-outs.

Step 3

Show them how they can use the "negative" of their cut-out as well.

Step 4

Arrange the bigger pieces in the background. Show them how to overlap.

Step 5

Add in more and more pieces to your paper.

Step 6

Cut around the edges to clip any overhanging paper. If you like you can provide representations of Matisse for children to add to their work (like have pink horse or dancing silhouette... Something that is common throughout each students work

All Done

Pollock Art Project for Kids

PollockPinAction Jackson was most known for his painting styles and techniques. He placed his canvas on the floor and used a varitey of different brushes and tools to drip paint. This is a great activitiy for younger children to explore paint splatteringand drips.
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Materials:

 

Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

Pollock pollock ArtBrushes     SeuratArt

Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Go thorough your house and find tools you can use for your action painting.

Step 2

Combs and Toothbrushes can be dipped in paint and used as brushes.

Step 3

Then pressed with your thumb for splatter painting.

Step 4

Eye droppers (or old medicine droppers) can be used to slurp up runny paint.

Step 5

Make a series of drips across your paper.

Step 6

Straws can be used to blow the paint droplets around.

Step 7

Fill your paper with all sorts of moving paint!

All Done

You now have your very own Action Jackson painting!

Seurat Art Project for Kids

SeuratPinPointillism is a fun artistic technique for any age level! Children enjoy making these representational pieces of artwork. This is a great craft for children who like to work on details.
Seurat

Materials:

  •  White Paper or Printable Template
  • Paint or Stamping Ink Pad
  • Pencil with NEW Eraser
  • Seurat Art Card

 

Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

Seurat3    Seurat     SeuratArt    Art

Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Provide children with blank paper or younger children with black line coloring pages. Print up a few black line coloring pages. Look for landscapes, and ordinary objects online.

Step 2

Find some pencils that have brand new erasers. You want a nice flat top for easy stamping. Q-tips work for this technique as well, but I prefer the erasers as they are nice and flat.

Step 3

Tip: Use the lids of your paints, there will be plenty! Dip your erase into the paint, very gently!

Step 4

Hold the pencil vertical and make a dot on your paper! The amount of paint will determine the size of the dot. You can try for uniform dots or use this knowledge to add character to your project.

Step 5

When you want to change colors use a wipee or a wet paper towel to wipe your eraser.

Step 6

Leave spaces between the dots to add in other colors.

Step 7

Try to use a varitey of colors but resist the need to blend them together with your finger.

Step 8

Think about how you will display your artwork.

All Done

Hang up your art and stand way far back! Look for where your colored dots are blending together...do they still look like dots from far away?

Background Idea

Try pasting your project on to a contrasting piece of construction paper

Mondrian Crafts for Kids

MondrianPinPiet Mondrian was known for white canvas with horizontal and vertical lines, and rectangular shapes filled with primary colors. There are so many ways to explore the art process of line and color, we’ve come up with a couple of different ways you can make Mondrian reminiscent worksof art in your classroomMondrian

Materials:

  •  White Paper, Black Marker, Colored Pens, Construction Paper Shapes, Mondrian Art Card

 

Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

Mondrian  teachart    GreatArtists   Art

Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Use a ruler to make vertical lines on your paper with your black pen

Step 2

Make some horizontal lines on your paper as well.

Step 3

Continue making lines and sectioning off your paper in an uneven grid.

Step 4

Pick up a pack of sticky back foam shapes (Dollar Tree) and let children fill in the grid.

Step 5

Simply use a red, blue, and yellow marker to fill in the different squares.

Step 6

Cut a variety of shapes from Red, Yellow, and Blue paper. Glue the to the paper in a grid. Then draw your black lines over and around the shapes.

Andy Warhol Art Project for Kids

This is a great project for children who are learning about Andy Warhol and the POP Art movement! The bright colors and bold images used in this fun fifties style makes for some stunning creations in your art classroom. Students of all ages can participate with this Andy Warhol art project. Simply print our free templates (below), or our Pop Art Activity Pack and follow these helpful tips and guidelines for designing in a pop art style.

Andy Warhol Art Templates

To make things easier for younger children, we’ve created these fun and free Andy Warhol Art Templates. Students can use these templates to create their own pop art by adding a variety of bright and complementary colors. We highly suggest using a strong medium to achieve the vibrant colors found in pop art. Try using paint crayons, oil pastels, or really bright markers for best results.

We’ve created two different Andy Warhol templates you can use; Cupcakes and Doughnuts. (UPDATE: Scroll down for Warhol’s Infamous Campbell’s Soup Art Template) We think that these designs will appeal to most kids, because…..well, YUM!! But your art students can design anything their heart desires! Just draw the design a single time and trace it into four quadrants on a separate sheet of paper. They can even make small changes to the design to add a little visual appeal, as we’ve done in our free printable templates below:

These doughnut graphics are hand drawn! Older kiddos can certainly draw their own.

Doughnut Template

Thanks to Zip a Dee Doo Dah Designs for these fun Cupcake graphics!

Cupcake Template

While we have the two FREE art projects available above, we also have an Andy Warhol Pop Art Activity Pack that includes 5 Instructional pages alongside 12 more art project sheets with a variety of themes. This pack is a paid resources available in our TPT store.

Pop Art Coloring Tips

One reason we suggest using paint crayons or oil pastels is because of the ability to blend different colors together! This is a fun way to add some dimension to your pop art projects. Here are a few blending and coloring tips to keep in mind as you complete your project.

Highlighting Shapes

As you fill in the different shapes of your project, look for opportunities to highlight. You can do this by leaving white space around the edges of your shape, then returning to fill them in with a bright color. In the example above the doughnut is colored brown and highlighted with a vibrant pink around the edes of the icing and the edges of the doughnut itself.

Complimentary Colors with Pop Art

When choosing coloring for your shapes and your background, look for complimentary colors to help them POP! Complimentary colors are visually interesting and they compliment each other. You might consider printing up a color wheel for students to use as a reference for this project.

Gradients & Color Choices

You might think that pop art is a bunch of randomly chosen colors, but it’s not! Besides choosing complimentary colors, you might also look for opportunities to reuse colors throughout your entire project. In the example above, you can see that the green is used in two different scenes. This helps tie your project all together. Additionally, look at the yellow glaze of the top right doughnut. It’s hard to tell in the photo, but multiple colors were used starting with a Yellow-Orange, then a medium yellow, then a bright yellow. You can create more visual interest in your drawing by creating different gradients within your shapes.

Stop Coloring!

Okay, with all the vibrant colors in pop art, you might think you need to fill in every single space with color. But white space is your friend! You can leave areas white for visual interest, or even to strategically highlight a specific area. In the photo above you can see white space was left on the cupcake with the cherry in such a way as to represent a shine of light reflecting off the frosting.

Get Creative With Your Frame

Pop art is fun and whimsical style of art, and your frame should match! Try to think of a creative way to frame your artwork that will bring attention to it’s unique qualities. In the photo above you can see that two corners of the black construction paper have been removed, and white paint is used to add a little flair. A custom frame can add a lot of fun to your art project!

Ready for more?! Try our Andy Warhol Pop Art Activity Pack Today! This extra set includes 12 unique designs and layouts to inspire your students to get creative with their pop art projects. This pack also includes the infamous Campbell’s soup template for students to draw and design. With all the unique pop art activity pages, this set is sure to be a HIT in your homeschool or classroom setting.

Famous Artist Projects for Kids

Monet Craft for Kids

Claude Monet is well known for his beautiful water scenes! This Monet Art Project for Kids is a fun (and messy) finger painting craft that will leave children with beautiful results. The materials used are simple and you’re sure to have them on hand in your art supply closet. I suggest you try this craft beforehand to get a feel for removing the tape.

Monet Art Project Materials:

  • Cardstock Paper
  • Fingerpaint
  • Painters Tape or Masking Tape

Monet Art Project for Kids:

Step 1: Build Your Bridge

For this craft, you’ll need some masking tape to make your bridge shape. I cut our tape in half to get thinner strips. You want to form the shape of the bridge using your masking tape. You can do this ahead of time for younger children if needed.

Continue building your bridge using small sections of tape for the slats. Try to add five or six of them across the bridge at equal intervals.

Step 2: Monet Finger Paint Art

Time to fingerpaint! Provide students with a rainbow of colors for them to dip their fingers in, then show them how to dab their finger multiple times to start filling in the canvas.

This is a great time to teach children about color blending and using similar colors (hues) together to create depth. Show children how to overlap their fingerprints to blend the different colors together.

Continue to fill in your canvas with a multitude of colors and blends. Don’t worry about painting over the tape. As long as it’s securly fixed to your paper the paint will not seep through.

Add more fingerprints over the bridge and below until your entire canvas is filled up.

Step 3: Allow to Dry

As tempting as it is to peel off the tape, set your art asside and allow your art to dry. Keep the little ones busy by reading one of the many beautiful children’s stories of Monet.

Step 4: Peel to Reveal Your Masterpiece!

Once your art project has dried, carefully peel back the sections of tape to reveal Monet’s bridge! Mount these masterpieces to colored construction paper and hang up in your homeschool classroom or in your classroom bulletin board.

Van Gogh Art Project

Van Gogh is the name every young child knows, and Starry Night is the title they remember! Uses this fun technique to create movement on your canvas! This project requires a little bit of glue and some oil pastels so be sure to plan enough time for the glue to try. 


Van Gogh Art Project Materials:

  •  Black Construction Paper
  • White School Glue
  • Oil Pastels
  • VanGogh Artist Card

Using your white glue, begin to draw the dark shape in the foreground. This will outline the main tree and the village in the distance. It might help to view Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting while you draw.

Add in your horizon line, accounting for the hills and the village below. These are simpl shapes without much detail. We are basically outlining things that we can add color, texture and detail too later on.

Begin to add in some swirls in the background. Keep the path continuous behind the tree as it is in the foreground. The starry sky is in the background so be sure you draw with the glue so that it appears behind the shapes.

Continue buiding your image with glue. Make the stars with circles and curved lines radiating outwards from them.

Be sure to add in the moon and lots of stars, making sure your glue is moving around them, and filling in all the empty space with movement.

Allow your glue to dry for a few hours. It will almost disappear but you’ll still be able to see it and feel it. When your glue is dry, provide children with Oil Pastels.

Begin to draw over the lines you made with your glue. When you draw over the glue, you’ll begin to see different textures coming through

Use different colors of clue and white along your lines. Show children how to choose a variety of different hues of the same color to create depth and interest.

Highlight with white and yellow on top of your blues and for your stars. Use darker yellows to draw in your Moon and Stars along the path of the glue.

Use black and purple to add shadow and depth to the image in the foreground. Black down the left side and purple down the right sides. Overlap the colors a bit in the middle and blend them a little.

Color in your village. Use dark colors in the background and whites and yellows for the buildings. Add in a little light blue to highlight areas in the darkness.

Stand back and marvel at your beautiful Starry Night masterpiece! These look wonderful when mounted on a classroom bulletin board, or framed with black construction paper.

Looking for more Famous Artist Projects for Kids? Try our beautiful Monet art project today!

Van Gogh Art Project for Kids

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We’re diving into our Artist studies this year, starting with Van Gogh. A couple of years ago we did this Starry Night Art Project, and this year we’re starting off with The Potato Eaters.

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This is a fantastic painting to study for children of all ages, and I highly recommend looking into this book series by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each artists most famous paintings are discussed in great detail and these books would make a fantastic addition to your homeschool library.

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We used our Oil Pastels for this project, which worked really well for blending, and overlapping color. We even used our fingernails in some parts to scratch away color.

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All of our Master Artist projects come with a printable artist card you can use for displaying children’s artwork.

Click Here for the Full Art Project Tutorial.

Siggy

Famous Artist Curriculum Resources

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This year I was blessed to be able to attend our state wide homeschool convention.

WITHOUT THE KIDS.

I know that there are people out there that can brave these conferences with their adorable, quiet, well dressed and well behaved children.
And they don’t even need a double dose of prescription strength deodorant to get through it all.

Me?

I am not said person.

I am the Mom who begs and begs for someone to take my crazy rambunctious hooligans away for the weekend, secrectly hoping that by the time they are returned to me that they too will be adorable, quite, well dressed and behaved.

Ha!

Well, besides the blessing of attending different seminars on parenting and homeschooling (and how not to loose you mind while doing both), I also got to shop the HUGE used curriculum fair.

OK.

Let me just admit up front here that 50% of my desire to go to said conference was to shop.

OK.

65%

Anyway, I scored some killer deals and it was nice to build up our homeschool library with some awesome resources.

One of my favorite finds were these Famous Artist books and reference guides.

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Usborne Famous Paintings
Usborne Famous Artists

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Usborne Impressionist Sticker Book

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Masterpieces Up Close

This one is really cool. It is a very large book with huge photos of famous paintings. Then on the sides it has facts and information about all of the little details in the painting. I know this will encourage my children to look very closely at art.

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What Makes A…..
This is probably the series I’m most excited about! It’s filled with details and information about each artist and how to identify their work. There are full color photographs of art pieces and the story behind their creation. The series is put out by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I plan on picking up additional titles on Amazon. Grade level recomendation is 6th-8th, but they would make great read alouds, or even brush ups for Mom to read before teaching. See sample pages here.

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Best of all, all these art resources fit into my new storage containers…..more on that later!

Stay Tuned!

FamourArtist

Pssst…Don’t forget to check out all of our Famous Artist Art Projects for Kids!
Maybe we’ll have some more to add in the coming year :)

Claude Monet Craft

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monet craft for kids

This week we revisited our Famous Artist studies,
and added Monet to our list!

If you’re new to our blog we’ve been using The World’s Greatest Artist series to
take a mini-survey of various artists and their work.

It’s a pretty low-key approach.
We read the book. Look at the art.
Then we make our own.

The real learning occurs over the following weeks/months/years
in which I bring up things like;

“Hey Bubba, Look at those water lilies, they look just like that artist….” or
“Hey Sissy, check out that billboard! They are using that cool Pop-Art style…..”

And the conversations and natural learning run wild from there.
You just can’t keep them from telling you what they remember.

way better then a paper test if you ask me ;)

Well, this week we broke out the masking tape
(inspiration via: Frugal Family Fun Blog)

famous artist crafts for kids

And we broke out the paint.

claude monet craft children

We tried our best to be patient:

world's greatest artists

And we were rewarded with these beautiful representations of
Monet’s Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies

These are keepers for sure!

Check out the Full PhotoTutorial,
and more Famous Artist Crafts here


Van Gogh & Matisse

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We have completed a couple more of our Famous Artist crafts
this time we learned about Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse.

We are continuing to use the “Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists” series

For Van Gogh we turned this:
van gogh craft

Into this:

van gogh printables

And for Matisse we used these:

famous artist printables
matisse craft

To make these:

matisse craft kids

All instructions are up on the main site as well as printable artist cards for each artist!

artist printables

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Warhol & Pollock

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I just finished uploading two more of our Famous Artist Crafts!

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Jackson Pollock

This was a well loved activity for my kids,
they loved blowing with the straws!
Me? I wan’t really into passing out
for an art project, but they were in dizzy oblivion.

andy warhol craft for kids

Andy Warhol

These were really fun, Sissy enjoyed this a bit more then Bub,
who found it daunting to color in one color for each open space.

andy warhol printables

I included some fun Warhol printables,
you can snag the boy & the girl as well as
some adorable cupcakes or some sneakers!

Older children can design their own!

Eveything is uploaded to our Famous Artist Craft Section!

PSSST…. Here’s a sneak peak at who’s coming next:

Stay Tuned!

Homeschool Recon: Art History

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Since I’ve already posted all about our
instructional Art Curriculum,

I thought I’d better share what we have been doing for
Art History.

It’s actually something I’m just making up,

…gasp!

Okay, I actually took a few courses of Art History in college

And Believe it or not, I got an A+.
(I know….everyone gets an A in art…..
but indulge me with the plus will ya?)

Anyway, we found this great set of
children’s books at our local library to help us along:

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They’re called, “Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists,”
and they are just the right level for my children.

You get to read a little bit about the artist,
and most importantly, view pictures of their most famous masterpieces.

So lately, we’ve been choosing one artist at a time, learning a little about them,
then making our own masterpieces based
on their specific techniques or style.

We’ve been having a blast!

And I’ve posted a couple of the projects weve done so far up on the main site:

Mondrian

Seurat

I’ve even made little sheets with a
picture and facts about the artist.

famous artist printables

We paste these on the back of artwork.
(that way we can review what we learned later!)

I have more to upload and share soon!
Everything will be posted on our Famous Artist Page.

Incorporating Art History into our routine has
been a HUGE blessing for my son!
I never would have thought!

But, he is fascinated with each new artist
and style we learn about.
All over town he seems to find a way to compare posters and artwork to the artists he knows.

The boy is 5. and I love it.

Except, not so much when he points out
what he knows to other people.

He’s really not bragging,
just carrying on conversation about Mondrian and Pollock,
(as if they were old buddies)

And maybe it’s just me but
I hate that “look at my smart kid” kinda of feeling.

(Does anyone know what I’m talking about here?)

You know That “look at me, my five year old knows about art”
kind of a feeling.

It’s kinda yucky.

I’m much more comfortable with the
“look at my crazy unruly children who apparently
have never heard of the word manners”
kind of a feeling

I’m used to that one more…..

I’ve got a slew of quirky antidotes to pacify
those types of situations.

But situations in which my child wants to discuss impressionism and pointilism with the dear sweet Granny ahead of us in line at the supermarket

….I’ve got nothing.

Thank goodness that doesn’t happen all the time
And thank goodness I’m not alone in this
or I might never leave the house.