Art Appreciation/History

Energize your classroom with the Hot Seat Vocabulary Game, the ultimate team-based learning tool for teachers! Perfect for unit reviews and vocabulary mastery, this game transforms learning into an engaging, competitive experience that students love...

Are you looking for an easy, no prep drawing project that your students will actually want to do? This is it! Challenge your students to tell a story about a food fight in the kitchen. This is no ordinary food fight, the kind we dread in the cafeteria...

Its the end of the year and I always pull out the lessons with the biggest buy in this time of year. If your students are loosing interest, this is what will bring them back to putting in some effort! Your students will absolutely love this abstract eye...

Do you struggle with finding a meaningful way to asses art students for a midterm and final exam? Teach them to build their own Website with this easy to use, no prep lesson. All of my students from middle school to high school use this lesson twice a...

Its Back to School Time! Whether we are ready or not, its coming! Let me save you some planning time for the first week of school when students are being shuffled around from class to class. This first week of school drawing project is great on the first...

My students draw everyday! I give them a quick drawing warm up called Doodle A Day. Its the best Art Bell Work Ever because its no prep, easy to use, and students love it! If you need 5-10 minutes at the beginning of class to get things in order and take...

Have you tried Zentagle with your students with lack luster results? With these step by step instructions, everyone can be successful with this kind of drawing.   For over 15 years, the first lesson that I always teach is Zentangle. Its a self...

Every year, my art students look forward to our Graffiti unit! Teaching graffiti has so many possibilities! Opportunities include teaching about public art, controversy in art, technique, skills, meaning making, communication, art history, and all of the...

Everyone can learn to draw! This is my firm belief! As someone who wasn't "born with it" and had to learn how to draw, I am excellent at teaching "non drawers" and beginner art students how to draw. The key is to convince them that they can. Using...

Its Back to School Time! Whether we are ready or not, its coming! Let me save you some planning time for the first week of school when students are being shuffled around from class to class. This first week of school drawing & sculpture project is...

My students draw everyday! I give them a quick drawing warm up called Doodle A Day. Its the best Art Bell Work Ever because its no prep, easy to use, and students love it! If you need 5-10 minutes at the begining of class to get things in order and take...

Its back to school time, time to make your art room ready!   Are your walls lack luster? Do you need some vocabulary words for a bulletin board or a word wall? Are you tired of boring old Principals of Design Posters from the 90’s? These...