First grade sculpture projects

This Sculpture art project for elementary or middle school art class requires no prep and few cheap materials.

Oh my goodness, y'all! These wee pencils were just about the easiest two day sculpture project ever...and look how stinkin' cute they are! If you follow me on Instagram, then you know all of my kiddos are creating sculptures of art supplies. So far, we've made sculpture of crayons, scissors, glue sticks and big pink erasers. I'll be sure to share all of those with you, as well as how-to videos. But today, I thought I'd share these super cute pencils that my fourth graders made in just 2…

Paula Liz | My 1st-grade artists made these paper habitats to accompany their creative clay creatures! I created a custom printable template, and we... | Instagram

This is one of my favorite projects to do with Middle School students Materials Needed: 18 Gauge Wire (cut 3 pieces total--2 pieces=18 inches, 1 piece=22 inches) Tape Newspaper Plaster Gauze Black, Green, and Teal acrylic paint Silver, Gold, and Bronze metallic acrylic paint Base- can be wooden, or I have used plastic lids before as well To do this project I first have the students re-visit a lesson on proportion. We use the wooden mannequins to help the students draw out their design. We…

When I searched for 'Nature inspired' sculptures, Pinterest introduced me to the Art duo, Chiaozza. Together, Adam Frezza and Terri Chaio are the creative minds behind the nature inspired, cartoon sculptures of Chiaozza (pronounced 'Yowza'). What a fantastic source of inspiration for my year 7 class' unit on sculpture! We started our journey by

I think Instagram has surpassed Pinterest in usefulness for me. Since Pinterest keeps adding pins of things THEY think will be interesting t...

3rd time’s the charm for these! I learned so much from our first try at clay cupcakes, and even more making Cupcakes 2.0. Cupcakes 3.0 are gonna be adorable and have all the sprinkle headache…

7th grade 3-D students finished up their clay cupcakes and were eager to begin their next project. We looked at the artwork of pop artist, ...

I'm so VERY excited to present my very first guest blogger on MiniMatisse. I met Mark Rode a couple months back at a training and we share our social media information with each other. I have been so impressed with Mark's Instagram that I asked if he would write a blog post about this amazing project. Mark is an Elementary Art Teacher at Oxbow Creek Elementary in Champlin Minnesota. He explains that his inspiration came from another teacher in West Australia, Ann Farrell. I'm a fan of her…