Mrs.Williams Art Room

Well, I don't know if you all have been affected by the school closings yet, but here in Michigan we are shut down for the next 2-3 weeks.  I am so glad that I started learning how to create videos and started this blog. My goal is to use this time to really update art lessons and share as much as I can. I am posting on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. The hardest part is working with limited supplies. I know many of my students may not have a variety of things at home, so I am challenging myself to create simple lessons with simple tools. Feel free to use this March drawing challenge for your kiddos, if it looks like we are moving into late April with our closer, then I will add another challenge. In the mean time stay creative and stay well. Here is my first video for art at home using markers, paper, brush and water.

Boy, has it been a while since I have blogged!  Please forgive me...life has been busy. For some of you who do not know, I'm not only a full time K-8 art teacher, but I am a business owner, traveling art content leader for my school,  and outreach art instructor. I travel and participate as an art vendor and  I participate in art shows throughout the year so my mind goes from one place to the other. This year I have traveled to New York to facilitate  an art teacher workshop with some amazing art teachers and I have helped coach over 20 new art teachers during our professional develop training. Whew!! It's been a ride!  Well, I haven't totally left the seen, I'm preparing a few lessons to share on my blog and on YouTube. I have decided to share my classroom video tutorials with you. I love making videos to show my students how to create our art projects. I do have an Elmo in my room that displays what I demo on to the whiteboard, but it gets difficult trying ...

Art on a cart is not an easy task, and my heart goes out to all art teachers who are full time on a cart. I have my share of days when my room is being used for what ever reason, but I wanted to share a lesson that seems to be a kid pleaser when I have to do art in the classroom. This lesson was taught to 3rd-5th graders but it could easily be done with first and second. Supplies needed: 9 x 9 inch white paper (2 for each student) Markers Crayons Pencils Erasers Origami Dogs or Cats Fold one paper in half  leave the other for later. Fold the two corners of your paper to create ears. Now take the bottom pointed area and flip it up to create the nose/mouth.  Your second sheet should now be folded in half like a triangle bend the bottom to the side for a tale. Use a glue stick and glue the head to the body and decorate!  I usually bring makers with me on my cart but since I am in their classroom. I let them get out there cra...

 I love this lesson! It teaches students how to use lines in a picture. And what better way than to teach students how to make a spider web. It's a great review of types of lines. We covered straight and curved lines in this lesson, of course they love it! Supplies used: 9 x 12 inch white paper white oil pastel (white crayon) Black or blue liquid water color Brushes For this lesson I did a teacher led demonstration on how to draw a spiderweb using a pencil. I love to practice before going straight into a lesson. Especially something like this with first grade. So, day 1 is practice. Day 2 they show me what they have learned by using a white oil pastel to draw their spider web, and yes you can see it on the white paper. Once they have drawn their spider web it's time to add the liquid watercolor. I have three first grade classes to do this with so recycling the liquid watercolor works. My example Adding the spider Once they were dry we used black ...

This year my goal is to make my room more streamed lined. So I found these great baskets at the dollar store. Unfortunately, they only come in three colors, so Rust-Oleum to the rescue! I painted three baskets to coordinate with my table colors in the room. So I now have my warm and cool color baskets. Here's what's going in the baskets, each table will have wipe boards, expo markers w/erasers, crayons, scissors, pencils and erasers. I also color coordinated my wipe board erasers and expo markers. Amazon order, 30 wipe boards, markers and erasers. They're a big hit!  The kids loved it!  They were so engaged!