About the store
My name is Meghan Parker, I love making things! I am currently teaching visual art in high school and have taught at all levels for almost 10 years. I am creator and lover of all mediums. I like make lessons that kids love and that ignite their sense of play, creativity, joy, and confidence. I have also written an autobiographical comic, ‘Teaching Artfully’ about art, education and what matters!
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Twin Leaf Challenge
🍁 Twin Leaves Challenge: A Realistic Painting and Observation Lesson 🎨 This illustrated lesson plan is designed for art teachers looking to engage students in a fun, challenging exercise focused on realistic painting, close observation, and accurate color mixing. 🌟 Activity Overview The Twin Leaves Challenge is a unique project where students use two leaves of similar shape and size. They prepare one leaf with gesso (or white acrylic paint) to create a blank canvas, and then use the seco
5th - 12th
Visual Arts
Accordion House
Accordion House- One page illustrated lesson sharing how to make an accordion book house for artists to illustrate.
4th - 12th
Visual Arts
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My name is Meghan Parker, I love making things! I am currently teaching visual art in high school and have taught at all levels for almost 10 years. I am creator and lover of all mediums. I like make lessons that kids love and that ignite their sense of play, creativity, joy, and confidence. I have also written an autobiographical comic, ‘Teaching Artfully’ about art, education and what matters!
Teaching style
Everything that design for students is hand created and lovingly illustrated. The hand made element seems to connect to students more quickly and elicit a bigger buy-in. I have three toddlers of my own and hundreds of teenager artists to test my projects on, so this is reflected in the wide variety of projects you’ll find in my store.
Awards & shining teacher moments
2018 Arts MA Graduate Research Award (Arts AGM, Canadian Society for the Study of Education)
2021 British Columbia Affiliate Award (BCATA, Canadian Society for the Study of Education)
My own education history
BFA Emily Carr University
B.Ed University of British Columbia
M.A. Simon Fraser University
Additional biographical information
I love collaboration! If you have a lesson that would make a great comic, let me know!
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