30 years Public School Art Educator K-5 *
5 years Catholic School Art Educator K-8 *
Private Art Lesson Instructor *
5 years Summer Kinder Camp art specialist *
5 years Summer Art Educator K-8*
POP ART instructor
PUPPY CLOSE UPS!! STEP BY STEP...Drawing GuideThis is a 2 page pdf packed with everything you need to create these sweet pups! This resource can be used for K-5 and kept simple or complex. Pictures, tips, ideas, suggestions, and explanations are clear and easy to follow! As always, tailor your focus to meet the needs of your audience. Tie it to literature, a pet, or an imaginary puppy. Possibilities are endless. Lots of happy faces! This is perfect for live, virtual, hybrid or home school. Enjo
This AMAZING ARTIST ZINE is a special mini booklet made from folding one piece of paper. This is a fabulous way to supplement your artist studies and this one is all about Young GEORGIA O'KEEFFE!! I pair this activity with the youtube story: My Name Is Georgia by Jeanette Winter. My pdf is designed especially for young children. By no means is this his complete life history. It is filled with fun facts and kid friendly information and each page has an activity or question for your students to
This AMAZING ARTIST ZINE is a special mini booklet made from folding one piece of paper. This is a fabulous way to supplement your artist studies and this one is all about Young WASSILY KANDINSKY!! I pair this activity with the great youtube story, The Noisy Paint Box, by Barb Rosenstock. My pdf is designed especially for young children. By no means is this his complete life history. It is filled with fun facts and kid friendly information and each page has an activity or question for your st
This AMAZING ARTIST ZINE is a special mini booklet made from folding one piece of paper. This is a fabulous way to supplement your artist studies and this one is all about Young JACKSON POLLOCK!! I pair this activity with the great youtube story Action Jackson, by Jan Greenberg. My pdf is designed especially for young children. By no means is this his complete life history. It is filled with fun facts and kid friendly information and each page has an activity or question for your students to
This AMAZING ARTIST ZINE is a special mini booklet made from folding one piece of paper. This is a fabulous way to supplement your artist studies and this one is all about Young VINCENT VAN GOGH!! I pair this activity with the youtube story: "Vincent van Gogh for Children: Biography for Kids - FreeSchool". My pdf is designed especially for young children. By no means is this his complete life history. It is filled with fun facts and kid friendly information and each page has an activity or que
This AMAZING ARTIST ZINE is a special mini booklet made from folding one piece of paper. This is a fabulous way to supplement your artist studies and this one is all about Young ALEXANDER "SANDY" CALDER!! I pair this activity with the great youtube story Sandy's Circus, by Sandra Lee Stone. My pdf is designed especially for young children. By no means is this his complete life history. It is filled with fun facts and kid friendly information and each page has an activity or question for your
This AMAZING ARTIST ZINE is a special mini booklet made from folding one piece of paper. This is a fabulous way to reinforce your artist studies and this one is all about Young JOAN MIRO!! I pair this activity with the great youtube story Miro's Magic Animals by Anthony Penrose. My pdf is designed especially for young children. By no means is this his complete life history. It is filled with fun facts and kid friendly information and each page has an activity or question for your students to
This AMAZING ARTIST ZINE is a special mini booklet made from folding one piece of paper. This is a fabulous way to reinforce your artist studies and this one is all about Young Pablo Picasso!! I pair this with the great book 100 Pablo Picassos, by Violet Lemay but there are so many other ones and short youtube videos to watch first. My activity booklet is designed especially for young children. By no means is this a complete history of his life. It is filled with fun facts and kid friendly in
These AMAZING ARTIST ZINES are special mini booklets made from folding one piece of paper. This is a fabulous way to reinforce your artist studies and this bundle includes three of the GREATS!! Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and Frida Kahlo!!! Excited to use these during Hispanic Heritage Month or anytime they fit in. I pair these with great artist books or use as a review after an art lesson. They are designed especially for young children. Not meant to be a full life history, but rather fun facts
GEOMETRIC DESIGN STARTER PAGES! This set is a 6 page PDF with 3 blanks for mindful coloring and 3 full color samples. These were created as an extension to a lesson about artists inspired by nature! We studied the INCREDIBLE snow art of Simon Beck who creates amazing, unique designs with his feet in snow! After watching several interviews and comparing his work to Optical illusions, Kaleidoscopes and String Art, students chose a design, similar to his creations, to color in! Connections to mat
It's FALL! Use these printables to extend your fall lessons in art, math, science, or ELA; especially helpful for virtual or remote teaching. Possibilities vary based on the developmental stages of your children! I love to pair them with a book or video or after an acorn hunt or candy corn count with little ones. These are perfect for stories and songs too. My students are loving these right now! With older kids, use these for reinforcing art elements like line, shape, and pattern or my favorite
Let a warm dragon and a cool mermaid help reinforce Color Theory in a fun way.This is a 6 page PDF packet filled with Color Theory resources for elementary students with two posters and a coloring page to match the lesson! Print, laminate and hang! My 3 page Full Color guide lays out a way of teaching rainbow order, warm and cool, and primary and secondary colors. I've done all the work for you and supplied you with two beautiful hand painted visuals to hang in your classroom or use in your
ISH by Peter Reynolds is a well loved children's book with messages about self confidence for all of us! This resource is inspired from his book and a perfect extension to do after reading it with your children. This PDF is a hand drawn one sheet page that can transform into a mini booklet for each student! Teachers can print these out, fold and cut for younger students OR older students can do their own folding and cutting. Folding crisp, clean edges is important to pages lining up well. This c
4th - 8th
Character Education, For All Subjects, Performing Arts
The elements of art are the building blocks within an art work that help artists communicate. This download is for a one page PDF printable. Once printed, folded and cut this sheet transforms into a student's mini booklet or "zine" holding all seven elements (line, shape, color, value, form, space, and texture) in one place!! Please note: The book is blank, ready for your customization. This printable is purposefully simple so that your students can individualize to their hearts delight. Concep
~We start the year off talking about how important our eyes are for life and for art! ~Discuss the many different ways we use our eyes to see and observe details. ~Show closeup photos of different eyes ~Use this handout to help remind students that watching to learn is different than watching a show for fun! ~The words, "eyes right here" is a direction for students to focus wherever I am ~Great conversation starter for eye color and identifying parts of the eye too ~Customize eyes by adding aro
~ Fun NAME activity that reinforces letters, shapes, lines, and symbols while learning and honoring all student's names! ~Students find the letters in their name and then draw the items for each letter on their paper to create abstract art. ~Students choose the color, size and placement each time! ~Encourage students to fill their entire page and then color in! ~5 page PDF includes handouts for different ages and abilities and blanks to customize ~This can be kept simple or made more complex b
~First days handout for any age student ~Contains 1 pdf page ~Introduce or review "art hands" and how they are our best art tool ~Identify, color, and label other common art supplies with a guessing game ~Add the word ART in the heart or I "heart" ART or your class code ~ I ask the students to color one hand with matching skin tone and to design the other any way they want, mentioning that artists often have colorful hands, to set the stage for not worrying when that happens! ~ Reinforce left a
PreK - 5th
Art, Visual Arts
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Experience
30 years Public School Art Educator K-5 *
5 years Catholic School Art Educator K-8 *
Private Art Lesson Instructor *
5 years Summer Kinder Camp art specialist *
5 years Summer Art Educator K-8*
POP ART instructor
Teaching style
I love to nurture the creative spark in every person. Everything can be taught thru the arts. There is never just one way to make art. Your potential is unlimited.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Tennessee Arts Academy faculty 2019 *
Podcast guest for Arts Integration *
Developed Artist and Author Program *
Developed Avenues to Artists Program *
Developed Discovery Days Program *
Redesigned the Unified Arts Program *
Art Show Awards
My own education history
BFA and MA in K-12 Art Education and Art Therapy
Additional biographical information
Always willing to support the arts in your home schools!
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