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Top 10 Insta Pics of 2014
What a fun idea for a linky party! I am joining Teacher Tidbits for this fun recap of the Top 10 most “liked” Instragram pictures from my @artwithjennyk instagram account from 2014. Here they are… I...
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Penguins
I’m an artist… I LOVE to draw, color, paint and just create in general. Even when it’s drawing on the computer I’m just as happy. Today I got to have some good-old-fashion drawing fun. I created an...
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Groundhog Day FREE coloring sheet
Try my interactive coloring sheets for Groundhog Day this year! February 2nd is the day…will the groundhog see his shadow? I hope not or else that’s 6 more weeks of brrrrr cold weather. I created...
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“Love” Symbol – Tutorial
I know I can’t get enough of these LOVE symbols…and this is a fun and surprisingly challenging lesson for kids to do each year. I am always amazed by how tricky the taping is. Kids will always blow...
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Pop Art Rosa Parks
Say WHAT???? Last week I was having my kindergarten through second grade students use my “unscramble the portrait” portion of my collaborative grid Rosa parks poster. I wanted them to practice cutting,...
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Sewing Ugly Dolls/Monsters!
Recently, I was participating in The Art of Education winter online conference. It’s pretty neat, you can stay in your p.j’s and listen to great PD right on your computer. Then you can tweet, IG and...
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Featured Teacher: Myranda
I’m always so impressed by the creative ways teachers provide art for their students. Recently I contacted some teachers that really go out of their way to provide creative opportunity for their...
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March Art Activities
My “February Fun” resource round-up blog post was so popular last month that I thought I should do one highlighting my “March Art” activities. I never realized that St. Patrick’s Day was my favorite...
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“Can’t Live Without” ebooks
I wanted to share with you all about the most recent ebooks that our now available on Teacher Pay Teachers for secondary (6th-12th) teachers. There are so many resources in these books you are sure to...
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Irish Flag Art Project
If you are a classroom teacher and you study Ireland or do St. Patrick’s Day-themed units, this art project is a fun and super easy art integration activity that you can use to accompany your lessons!...
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Project Based Learning: Quadrilateral Robots
Art integration is the best “tool” for any teacher to have. Especially when you are trying to incorporate project based learning (PBL) activities. PBL is considered an alternative to paper-based, rote...
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Featured Teacher Kathleen B.
Last summer I was at the Teachers Pay Teachers conference in Vegas and I met a really nice lady named Molly, the teacher-author of Lucky to be in First on TPT. She told me that her sister just “loved”...
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Celtic Knot Initials
I’ve found that students love coloring and drawing Celtic knot designs. Of course I have many theories about “why” that is…but regardless of the reasons I’ve seen it enough times to know they enjoy it....
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Spring Art Integration Lessons!
Spring is in the air…and aren’t we all so glad! I have to admit, I live in Arizona, so I’ve had beautiful weather for a while (don’t shoot me), but most of my friends and family live in the East and I...
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Spring Butterfly Poster
I know we all say we won’t “make” our own children like “such and such” (insert whatever we like to do the most) but rather we will expose them to lots of things and see where they gravitate. But...
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Hungry Caterpillar
At my daughter’s preschool, they do units of study lasting about 6 weeks with a specific focus. Their current unit is on the arts–yay!–and my daughter’s teacher asked if I would come in and talk to the...
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How to draw a bunny rabbit!
Just in time for Easter…here is a fun and easy handout you can use with your kids to step them though drawing a cute, contemporary (polka dots and stripes are contemporary, right?!) bunny rabbit! I...
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Video:Easter coloring sheets
I love making time lapse videos. I’ve made them for a long time and now I have one for my Easter interactive coloring sheets. In this video you will see how I color in my sheets by adding patterns and...
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Video:Spring coloring sheets
It’s so much fun to see a time-lapse video. It’s always hard to watch them just once! We recently built an addition on our home and periodically we’d put a time-lapse video on all day and then go back...
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Recycled Water Bottle Fish
This is a great art activity using recycled (or, using terminology popular in the art world “found”) materials. You will need: Water bottles, glue, old brushes, tissue paper (variety of colors), craft...
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