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The Very Best Gifts for Teenage Artists – Art Supplies for Teens

October 8, 2018

Inside: An art supplies for teens gift guide! Affordable, quality art supplies that will take your teen artist’s work to the next level! For your convenience, I have included Amazon affiliate links. Purchases made through these links help support Art Class Curator at no additional cost to you. Good Art Supplies for Teens: I focused…

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How to Get Free Supplies for Your Classroom

July 17, 2018

Inside: Find out how to get free classroom art supplies so your students can discover the magic of art! Empty Classroom Cabinets I started teaching elementary art in a urban, South Dallas school back in 2008. Seeing my classroom for the first time was a shock! I had boxes upon boxes of faded construction paper scraps,…

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Beyond Selfies Unshuttering High School Photography Fundamentals

Beyond Selfies: Unshuttering High School Photography Fundamentals

May 16, 2018

Inside: An examination of the teen-oriented social platform Getty Unshuttered and how its challenges can be used for high school photography lessons. This post is brought to you by WeAreTeachers and Getty Unshuttered. Our lives were inundated with images long before the internet or smartphones came along. We’re a visual species and we’ve been creating images…

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Create a Flipbook Inspired by Early Photography

November 9, 2017

Inside: Enhance your middle and high school photography lessons with this interactive lesson on the history of photography, and then create flip books for kids in response to the innovations of Eadweard Muybridge. Last week, I told you all about Eadweard Muybridge Horse in Motion which led to the beginning of the first moving pictures…

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Making Art with Kids: Chagall-Inspired Drawings

May 25, 2017

For blog inspiration, I just flipped through all my photos from my elementary art teaching days to find a lesson to write about. Usually I avoid this because it usually provokes some PTSD teaching dreams, but that’s a story for another day. 🙂 This lesson is inspired by one of my favorite artists, Marc Chagall….

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7 Exciting Art History for Kids Projects that Made Me Say “WOW!”

December 27, 2016

Inside: This collection of exciting art history for kids projects will excite your students with creative process art at the same time as connecting with an artist from art history. These art history for kids projects are so clever! While I was developing the Art History for Kids pinboard, I came across approximately 400 projects based…

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The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush Sunset Art Project

December 7, 2015

On the blog and in our homeschool, I’ve been focused on Native Americans for the last month. I introduced the Plain Indians to my children and did this beautiful art project inspired by a Native American legend. This post contains affiliate links. Thanks for your support! After introducing Native Americans in previous lesson, we read…

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Glassblowing Field Trip and Activity

December 3, 2015

With one of our homeschool groups, we recently had the opportunity to visit Dallas Glass Art, a glass studio in downtown Dallas, for a tour and to see a demonstration. Glassblowing is one of my bucket list items, so I was so thrilled to have the experience for myself as well as provide a fun…

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Making Art with Kids: Block Printing Lesson

November 20, 2015

Block printing is one of my favorite things to do with kids (and with myself for that matter, who needs a kid to have fun with art?). Later in the week, I will be featuring some Japanese woodblock prints as part of my Art Spotlight series, so in preparation for that, I will show you…

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Analyzing Presidential Campaign Commercials: A Visual Culture Lesson Plan

October 22, 2015

When I was in grad school for Art Education, I took a class on Visual Culture. I really enjoyed the class and thinking outside of the box when it comes to defining what art is and what should be taught in an art class. During that semester, there was an amazing exhibit at the Sixth…

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Ocean Process Art

September 18, 2015

We’re studying the ocean in our homeschool, so we couldn’t resist having a little process art fun in the driveway with my friend her her kids. I may have gone a bit overboard on this one, but the kids had a blast! First, I rolled out a big sheet of blue butcher paper onto the…

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Paper Sculpture Project Inspired by Geometric MADI Art

September 16, 2015

About 10 years ago, the MADI Museum opened here in Dallas, and I had no idea what MADI was. Madi? That’s not a thing, is it? Turns out it is. Have you ever heard of MADI? It’s a little-known 20th-century art movement out of Argentina. Yesterday, I showed my girls some MADI art, and we…

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The Art Curator for Kids - 27 Creative Printmaking Projects for Kids

27 Creative Printmaking Projects for Kids

August 17, 2015

My most popular post on The Art Curator for Kids is my tutorial on all things block printing. I’m constantly finding other super creative ways to do printmaking with kids, so I compiled a massive list for you of some other ideas! Check out these awesome printmaking ideas for kids, and try one out! I…

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The Art Curator for Kids - 12 Ways to Integrate Art and Science

12 Ways to Integrate Science and Art

July 17, 2015

My 13 Art and Math Projects for Kids post has been doing pretty well on my site lately, so I decided to keep the art integration going with Science! Check out these awesome ways to teach science using art below. There are tons of projects out there online that integrate art and science, but the…

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Japanese Woodblock Prints Lesson for Kids

June 12, 2015

A few months ago, I got an awesome Facebook message from a reader, Kim, who used one of my resources in such an excellent and creative way. I would like to share what she did with my post and printable 36 Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai. Kim runs a small Montessori homeschool preschool for…

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Marshall Islands Stick Chart Lesson Plan and Art Project

May 11, 2015

We’re traveling today to the the Marshall Islands, an island county in the Pacific ocean. The country is spread out over 1,156 individual islands near the Equator and consists of a population of over 68,000 people. You can imagine that being spread out over that many islands, you would need to develop some systems for…

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Where the Wild Things Are Art Project

April 13, 2015

One of my favorite projects I did with my elementary students was an art project inspired by the amazing children’s book by Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak Maurice Sendak is a beloved children’s book illustrator and author. He wrote and/or illustrated about 100 books in his life. His most renowned work…

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Creating Art Alongside your Children “En Plein Air”

March 27, 2015

Today is my last Friday guest post! For the last two months, I have enjoyed so many diverse voices on the blog each Friday sharing experiences making art with kids. I love this guest post from Betsy Finn from BPhotoArt.com. Art is such a great way to connect together, and this is such a nice…

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Balloon Painted Rainbow

March 13, 2015

I’m thrilled to present this guest post from Jamie at Hand Made Kids Art. Her blog is such a great resource for preschool art, STEAM, and creativity. Please check out her fun activity she did for us here at The Art Curator for Kids, and then hop over to her blog to see all of…

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15 Spring Process Art Activities

March 2, 2015

A very important component of my blogging journey has been my membership in the Kid Blogger Network (KBN). This group of amazing bloggers are there for me day in and day out. We help each other and work together, and it is an incredibly inspiring, creative, and dedicated group of people. I wouldn’t be anywhere…

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