This second grade lesson combines a watercolor wash, drawing with construction paper crayons, symmetry, and a little color theory. In anoth...

The whole point of this activity is to let my second grade students mess around with primary colors to make secondary colors. I also throw i...

These crazy-colored shape people are done by first grade students. They are an outgrowth of the bubble people I do with Kindergarten studen...

I am not a fan of stick people. Children, I think, draw stick people because adults have taught them to do so. As a primary classroom teache...

Who doesn't love Elmer? After a lesson on looking carefully at patterns which included drawing random patterns all over a large sheet of...

Last year, I had my Kindergarten students draw " purple pictures " after reading aloud Harold and the Purple Crayon. It was fun, b...

This simple first grade lesson can be used to introduce students to the use of watercolor with a little wax resist. It also can introduce th...