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Exploring Ocean Habitats in a Yellow Submarine: A Simple Paper Craft
DIY Yellow Submarine Craft – Perfect for Little Artists! Ahoy, art lovers! 🎨⚓ Looking for a bright, easy, and imaginative project to try with your students (or your own kids)? Dive under the sea with this Yellow Submarine craft—a playful project that sparks creativity while using simple recycled materials. We recently made these in class
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Exploring the Magic of Polar Habitats and Animals Through Collage
Brrrrilliant Polar Collage! Creative Arctic & Antarctic Art for Kids Explore icy habitats with a hands-on collage using tracing, textures, and imagination! Looking for a creative way to teach young children about polar habitats and the animals that live there? This Brrrrilliant Polar Collage is a simple, sensory-rich art activity perfect for kindergarten and early
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Discovering Western Art History: From Caves to Canvas
From Caves to Canvas 🎨 Welcome to your art history journey! Western art history can seem like a big, winding timeline full of fancy names and unfamiliar styles—but at its core, it’s just the story of how people have expressed themselves through images over the centuries. In this post, we’ll take a quick look at
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Surrealism Comes to Life: Mixed Media Collage in elementary Art
🎨 Surrealism Comes to Life: Mixed Media Collage in Elementary Art This week in our elementary art room, students took a creative leap into the dreamlike world of Surrealism—a style of art where the imagination runs wild and anything is possible! Inspired by artists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, our young creators explored the concept of combining unlikely subjects to
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Why Manga and Anime Belong in Art Education: Inspiring Creativity Through Japanese Visual Culture
Why Manga and Anime Belong in Art Education: Inspiring Creativity Through Japanese Visual Culture Manga and anime aren’t just forms of entertainment—they’re rich, visual languages that can inspire and elevate student creativity in the art classroom. Rooted in centuries of Japanese visual tradition, these styles blend storytelling, dynamic composition, and emotional expression in ways that
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Exploring Visual Storytelling through the Magic of Atmosphere
🎨 Art Lesson: Visual Storytelling Through Mood & Atmosphere Theme: Mood, Atmosphere, and Expression Welcome to this week’s art lesson, where we dive into the world of visual storytelling — the art of telling a story without words, through images alone. Today’s focus is on capturing emotion, mood, and setting using watercolor as your medium. Your subject? An animal — but not
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Exploring the Magic of Winter with Aluminum Foil Monoprinting
Winter Wonders in the Art Room: Exploring Seasons Through Monoprinting As part of our Unit of Inquiry on How the World Works, our young artists have been learning about the changing seasons — and this week, we welcomed winter into the art room with a hands-on monoprinting project inspired by snowy landscapes. To help students
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Exploring the Magic of Cubism and Picasso: Seeing the World from Different Angles
Exploring Cubism and Picasso: Seeing the World from Different Angles This week in art class, we dove into the fascinating world of Cubism, a revolutionary art movement pioneered by artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Cubism is all about seeing things from more than one point of view at the same time—and showing those different views all together
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Exploring the Magic of Autumn Leaves with Watercolor Resist
Exploring Seasons Through Art & Science: Autumn Inspiration Under the Theme “How the World Works” As part of our current inquiry into the IB Primary Years Programme transdisciplinary theme “How the World Works”, our young artists have been exploring the science behind the changing seasons—specifically, the transition into autumn. This unit combines art and science
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Exploring Summer Under Water with Snorkels and Sea Life
🌊 “How the World Works” – Exploring Summer Under the Sea ☀️🐠 As part of our ongoing IB PYP Unit of Inquiry, “How the World Works,” the children are learning about the natural patterns and changes in our world, with a focus on the four seasons. After discovering the signs of Spring, we moved forward
Rebecca
Growing creative, confident global thinkers through art and design.
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