Weaving elementary art

When it comes to art lessons, I'm not much of a repeat offender. Since I like to change up the cultural theme of my art room every year, my lessons usually follow suit. However, I always have my 2nd grade create a circle loom weaving for a coupla reasons: * It's excellent for building fine motor skillz and pumpin' up those wee hand muscles. And what kid doesn't want super strong man-hands? * It's chock full o math connections: measuring, pattern making, long division (okay, maybe not that…

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artoshaughnessy Rainbows upon Rainbows. 🌈💗Second graders are weaving wonders! We first read Sky Color to get inspired to paint the sky (and partially because I was, and currently am, out of neon blue). Students were self sufficient making their color choices once they warped their own looms—no tape or glue required! I love that they embraced that choice and I think they sure did too. Color your own rainbows, kids! Project was inspired by and morphed from an excellent line of…

4th graders loved creating these illusions. I demonstrated how to use the 3 primary colors to create secondary colors. We started with a 9 x 12 piece of white paper. They chose a primary color for …

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Mrs. Martone - Art Teacher on Instagram: “1st grade tried weaving for the first time with this snakes in the grass weaving project 🐍 #artteacher #arteducation #elementaryart #arted…”