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“Mixed Media Bouquet of Flowers” by 4th grade

May 17, 2026 No Comments

Finished artwork is 9×12″ with an 11 x 14″ white paper border.

This 5 day ( 40 min. each class) mixed media art lesson focuses on 6 of the 7 Elements of Art; Form, Line, Shape, Color, Texture, and Value. This art lesson is inspired from a combination of two art teachers- Laura athttps://www.paintedpaperart.com and @amymcreynolds on Instagram with some variation.

You may have seen this lesson before on my 5th grade art lessons page. It’s basically the same lesson except in 4th grade we used 10 year old, up-cycled messy mats for either the vase or table rather than bubble wrap printing! I love the texture, beautiful mark making and fun pops of color with these messy mats!

Here’s a few from 5th grade with the bubble wrap printing.

To see my full blog post on the 5th graders mixed media bouquet of flowers artwork with bubble wrap printing, you can click on my link HERE

This is the first year I decided to teach it to 4th grade ( at just one of my two schools because I only teach ONE 4th grade class there). I would love to teach it to my 4th graders at my other school, but I’m on a cart over there (4 days a week) and I have FOUR 4th grade classes, so it’d be a bit much. Between the clay, storing the clay flowers to dry, the splatter painting, painting the clay flowers, all the cut paper and glue and hot gluing of all those clay flowers…it’d be a real challenge off a cart!

BUT…that being said…I’m really glad I did teach it to one class, and my students had a blast creating them! AND they’ll be displayed alongside all my other 4th graders artwork (Enlarged flower drawings inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe) at the newly annual “4th grade spring showcase celebration” that specialists (art/music/P.E.) put on in a couple of weeks! This 4th grade spring showcase started just last year, and last year I displayed all 4th graders Victorian houses.

For this lesson we used white Model Magic clay, splatter painting with watercolors on 80# white paper, tempera paints to paint the clay flowers, flower’s stems and leaves, colored railroad poster board paper, up-cycled messy mats, and scissors and glue sticks.

DAY 1

Students splatter painted with watercolors on one 12×18” 80# white drawing paper each. They could use any colors they wanted. This painting would then be used for either their table or for their vase later on. That painting day was fun but SUPER messy haha, as you’ll see in the photos below!

DAY 2

Students each received a 1 ounce small packet of white model magic to create 5 flower heads. To make 5 flowers, we used two 1 ounce packets in total, but we started off with just one so I wouldn’t have to wrap any left over clay or throw it out.

I demonstrated under the document camera ways to create a bunch of different flowers, but students could make any kind they wanted as well.

I showed students how to roll a small chunk of clay into a small circle, about the size of a ping pong ball, then flatten the ball with their palm (to about the thickness of an oreo cookie), then using scissors, cut small triangular sections out all the way around and then shape the remaining sections with your fingers to create the flowers petals.

From there they used their fingers to shape and point the ends if they wanted, or leave them more straight on the ends. They could also cut up into each petal at the end and create a fringed edge. Then the leftover clay from the triangle cut outs were balled up and flattened a bit to make the flowers center. They could poke little dots in the flowers centers too for added texture with a pencil as well.

Other balls of clay were made into tulips, buy repeating the same steps as above, but then stretching the circle out a bit to an oval, then cutting two triangles out from the top to make three points for the top of the tulip.

I also showed how to layer one finished flower on top of another to add more dimension, circle “button” flowers, and roses. To make the roses, take a very small amount of clay and create a ball, flatten it out so it’s fairly thin, and shape into a small oval. Then roll the clay into itself starting at one end to make the roses center (where petals are the tightest). Then take tiny amounts of clay, roll into small balls (the size of a pea) and flatten with your finger in your palm to make additional rose petals, and attach to the rose in layers all the way around.

Students could create a variety of 5 flowers, or they could be a combination of repeating just a few! Students were very creative and came up with some fun “pac-man” shaped flowers, delicate lavender, and other unique flowers!

I asked the cafeteria staff if I could buy a bunch of styrofoam lunch trays for this lesson and they were so nice to just let me take an entire sleeve (probably 100 trays!)

The clay sticks to paper plates and many other surfaces so it’s important to use a non stick surface for this lesson. You could use tinfoil over a plate which would work too. I like the fact that the lunch trays have 5 individual compartments though, so the flowers don’t touch each other and stick to one another as they dry. Then kids just wrote their names with a sharpie along the edge of the tray. Highly recommend styrofoam lunch trays for this!!! Plus- they easily fit in the drying rack being on the trays, without hurting any of the flowers!

Flowers were stashed away in the drying rack to harden until the next art class. To completely harden it takes a couple of days depending on the thickness of the clay.

DAYS 3 – 4

Students painted their flowers with liquid tempera paint. This took 2 art classes to finish painting all 5 flowers because a bunch of kids were absent on day one of painting, and some kids just needed more time.

I put the paints in ice cube trays (you can buy these silicone ice cube trays with hard plastic lids on Amazon as seen below), to separate colors and for ease of sharing at tables.

I had to give some of my tempera paint brushes haircuts for this lesson. I thought I had smaller tempera brushes somewhere in my art room but I didn’t. So…I improvised!

Students could paint their flowers any colors they wanted! I added the whole rainbow of colors as well as mixed blue and green paint to make teal, and red and white paint to make pink.

Kids started on the petals first, leaving the center last, in order to hold them while painting. They rinsed their brush well in water and wiped on a paper towel between changing colors. Some students decided to paint their flowers with the whole rainbow of colors!

DAY 5

On the final day students assembled everything together!

To prep —after school one day, I cut the railroad poster board paper into 9×12” sheets from 22”x28”sheets (giving me 4 -9×12” sheets per large sheet). Then I hot glued all students 5 flowers onto each sheet of 9×12″. One year I did this lesson and the pack included light pink paper, but this time it did not FYI.

Teachers out there reading this- this took a bit of time (a little over an hour per class of 27 students). I picked out the color for the paper, wrote each students name on the back and had 2 hot glue guns going as I worked. After, I placed all their papers with flowers in a large cardboard mason box to disperse in class later.

I also cut their 12×18” splatter paintings in half to 9×12” and paper clipped together. Then I cut beautiful old (10 years old?) messy mats into 9×12” sheets to use as either the vase or table.

I also created 5 different vase templates for students to trace over either their splatter painted papers or the cut messy mats. I think including a tracer was helpful, since getting the sizing right to fit the vase under their flowers might have been a bit tricky.

I just added these 5 vase templates in my TpT store for only $2! My TpT store is HERE!

Students also each received a 4”x9” tagboard template to use to trace over either paper for their table. Last time I did this lesson with 5th graders, I had them use rulers to measure for their table and then cut. But this year with 4th graders I just wanted to make sure we were able to complete the lesson on day 5. Plus using the table tracer allows kids to select an area from wherever they want on their paper, rather than just measuring from the bottom of the paper.

First students choose a section from one of their splatter painted papers or from a section of a messy mat sheet to create their table, using their table tracer. Once that was cut and glued into place they used one of the vase tracers to trace on either paper.

I suggested they use both papers (one for the table and a different one for the vase) for more visual interest, but they could use the same paper if they really wanted.

For a final step, students used 2 different shades of green liquid tempera paint (a dark green and a lighter minty green) to paint flower stems and leaves.

They all turned out so lovely! I love the variety of flowers, textures, colors AND unique artistic decisions!!

LEARNING GOALS:

Students can define mixed media

Students can demonstrate 3D sculpting by manipulating, rolling, and attaching Model Magic to create form and dimension

Students can apply the elements of art; Line, Shape, Color, Form, Texture and Value in their artwork and explain where they used them

I’m thinking I might make a YouTube tutorial on this lesson—or at the very least, on how to make clay flowers. Before I do though, I’m curious to know if it’s something people would be interested in—if you’d be interested in watching it please send me an email (through the contact section on my website on my “contact” page) or you can DM me through Instagram.

Please check out some of my previous posts by clicking on the links below!

4th grade “Enlarged Flower Drawings” and 5th grade “Splattered Paintbrushes”!

Mixed Media Cake inspired by Wayne Thiebaud

Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits – 5th grade

One point Perspective Cityscapes – 5th Grade

NEW YouTube Art Tutorial! “April Showers Brings May Flowers” -2nd Grade

2nd Grade “Thinking of Summer Self-Portraits” and 1st Grade “Dream Houses”

Winter Northern Lights! 5th grade Art Lesson

Blackout poetry – 5th Grade

Draw your own Inventions – 1st Grade

KINETIC ARTWORK BY 3RD GRADE!

GRID DRAWINGS inspired by Chuck Close! -5th GRADE

Winter Cardinals -4th grade and Superhero Masks – 2nd grade!

(The masks would be a great 1-2 day project for the end of the year art lesson! Kids LOOOVE making their own unique masks and could be for any grade level! And I have 4 PDF Printable mask templates in my TpT store for only $2.50!)

The link below goes directly to my “Springtime Art Lessons” page (39 art lessons listed w/ pics!)

https://www.artwithmrsfilmore.com/springtime-art-lessons/

Thanks so much for visiting my site today! I’ll be posting again soon on 5th graders “Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits” as well as “K and 1 Self-Portraits”!

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4th grade “Enlarged Flower Drawings” and 5th grade “Splattered Paintbrushes”!

May 10, 2026 No Comments

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I know that these lessons have been listed under my 4th and 5th grade pages for awhile now- but I haven’t posted either of them as a NEW blog post since 2018 and 2022! AND I wanted to share all the beautiful new artwork my students created!

***I also don’t teach either of these lessons -year after year- mainly because I sometimes want to try out a new lesson during the time frame when I’d typically teach it.

ALL ARTWORK BELOW IS BY MY STUDENTS. No teacher examples.

ENLARGED FLOWER DRAWINGS inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe

I absolutely LOVE the texture in the one below!

Students learned about the artist Georgia O’Keeffe, and viewed examples of her flower paintings. We talked about the scale (size) of her work and that her flower paintings were so large because she thought flowers were incredibly beautiful and wanted people to notice them! She loved to create close-up paintings of flowers. I told my 4th graders that looking at her flower paintings is like looking at a flower with a magnifying glass.

We also reviewed what abstract artwork is (artwork that focuses on mainly lines, shapes and colors), which is how Georgia O’Keeffe depicted a lot of her flowers in her work. She focused on just small sections of a flower –instead of the entire flower in a lot of her work, therefore abstracting the image. (Notably, not all of her flower paintings are abstract, but many are).

DAY 1:

I showed students multiple examples of her flower paintings through a Google slideshow presentation and discussed her work and background.

Students learned some fun facts about Georgia too!

Did you know that In her 70s and 80s, she took several rafting trips down the Colorado River?

In 1959, at the age of 71, she spent three months flying around the world, visiting countries like Japan, India, and Italy. This trip inspired her series of “Sky Above Clouds” paintings!

She made over 200 flower paintings during her lifetime.

And in 1928, six of her calla lily paintings sold for $25,000, which was the largest amount ever paid at the time for a group of paintings by a living American artist.

I then showed students some photos of 4th grade students finished flower drawings from previous years, as well as my own examples.

After — I demonstrated under the doc camera how to focus in on one area of a flower by blocking out the rest, using a view finder (I made these ahead of time by cutting out black square pieces of construction paper with a small (about 2×2″ square) cut out in the middle.)

Students could choose a flower image from 6 different flower prints that I brought.

Students were instructed to select an area of their flower picture with their viewfinder, so its petals touched or ran off at least 3 sides of their viewfinder.

Students then practiced drawing and enlarging small sections of their chosen flowers on 1 sheet of 9×12” paper. They did this 3 times, each flower drawing within a different square on their paper.

They had a choice of choosing 3 different flower images OR drawing from 1 flower image but focusing in on different areas of the flower each time, or a combination of the above.

DAYS 2-3:

Students then selected 1 photo of a flower for their final drawing. They then taped their viewfinder down over their chosen flower photo so it wouldn’t move.

They observed their flower closely, and enlarged the selected viewable section of their flower on 11×11” 80# white drawing paper, making sure that their flower petals ran off or touched at least 3 of the 4 sides of their paper, while considering the composition.

Once drawn, students colored in using oil pastels. Students had a choice of coloring in their flower any colors they wanted!!

In previous years, I had students color in their flowers trying to best match their flowers colors in the photo. This time —the only rule with color I had was, was to switch to a different color when there was a transition of color in their flower photo. Also, If their was a bit of background showing in their composition, (some students selected areas of their flower that only showed the flower– without any background) they needed to color it in with any one chosen color for contrast.

I also talked about cleaning any oil pastels with a paper towel if needed. Sometimes other colors get on the oil pastels from repeated use— when overlapping colors and blending especially—and I showed them how to fold the paper towel in half twice (to make it stronger) and then after placing the oil pastel tip inside the center to twist it as you press on the tip with your other hand – to clean off any other colors. My students LOOVED that cleaning tip!

I had 3 large boxes with various colors total that I would bring on my cart for each class. Kids could go up to the boxes at the front of the classroom to select whatever colors they wanted.

DAY 4:

Final day for coloring in, and then for a final step, students created a bit of depth within their flower by adding shadows around the edges of their flowers petals with a black oil pastel, then smudging in the direction it was drawn with their finger. This creates a soft blurry line – creating a shadow effect.

Adding black for shading with oil pastels can be a pretty tricky step, as it can easily smudge into others areas where you might not want it to, but I think students did a wonderful job adding that element to their artwork!!

I absolutely LOVE these flowers!!

Learning Goals:

Students can use a viewfinder to narrow their field of vision

Students learn about the life and artwork of painter Georgia O’Keeffe and can identify her work

Students can define and identify abstract artwork

Students can use their observational drawing skills to draw an enlarged flower

Students can blend colors together using their finger

Students can create depth within artwork by drawing overlapping petals and adding shading

SPLATTERED PAINTBRUSHES -5th Grade

This lesson idea is from art teacher Lauralee Chambers —@2art.chambers on Instagram.

This is always such a fun lesson to teach my 5th graders! It takes about (3) 40 minute art classes to complete.

DAY 1

We discussed how we would be utilizing the Elements of Art; Line, Shape, Color, Texture, and Value to create these paintings.

After showing students various finished artwork by my previous students, and my own teacher examples, I gave students a double-sided sheet of various paintbrush drawings that I drew – to observe and use as a reference while drawing their paintbrushes.

***BTW- I have a link to my TpT page below that has the paintbrush sheets (PDF) for a free download!

Students then drew at least 6 large paintbrushes (they could draw up to 7) on 12×18” 80# paper with pencil.

I asked them to enlarge the paintbrushes, no tracing, and in their drawings I asked that the following be included: at least 2 of the brushes had to overlap one another, at least 2 be drawn diagonally, and at least 1 drawn so the bristles pointed downward. Students could add also their own brush details within the handles.

Once all drawn in pencil, students traced over all their pencil lines with an ultra fine point black sharpie.

I showed students how to use the straight edge of their paintbrushes handout paper to create the paintbrush bristles. We did this by putting the edge of the handout paper up against the end of their paintbrush handle (in the drawing where the bristles would come out), to protect the rest of their paint brush when going over the lines with sharpie.

DAY 2

Students finished drawing and sharpieing over all their lines if needed, then used a black oil pastel to draw a thick line along only one side of each brush. Only on all the brushes left sides -OR- only on all the brushes right sides. I explained to students we were trying to create the illusion that there was only one light source and the light projected onto their brushes was creating a shadow.

Then using one finger gently smudge the oil pastel going in the same direction it was drawn in, to blur the line and to create a soft shadow.

DAY 3

On the final day students used watercolors to create the splatter effect.

We used tempera paint brushes for this because of the stiffness of the brushes bristles. It allows the paint to be flicked better, and with more precision, as opposed to using watercolor brushes, which has a softer/flimsier bristle.

I showed them how to use a tempera brush to apply the paint only halfway up each brush, leaving a jagged edge. Then we dipped the same brush back into the same color paint, and pulled back the bristles to flick the paint close to their papers for splatter coming from each brush.

I absolutely LOVE how they all came out and students had a lot of fun creating them —-albeit a bit messy (especially being on a cart for 3 out of my 4 classes!!)

***Visit my TpT store to get your FREE COPY of the paint brushes handouts I’ve drawn below! ***

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LEARNING GOALS:

Students can use observational drawing skills to create three dimensional looking paintbrushes
Students can identify and define the elements of Art LiNE, SHAPE, COLOR, VALUE + TEXTURE
Students can show overlapping and can create an interesting composition
Students can create splatter with watercolors using various painting techniques

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Please also check out some of my previous posts below! 3 of them include YouTube tutorials as well!

Mixed Media Cake inspired by Wayne Thiebaud

Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits – 5th Grade

One point Perspective Cityscapes – 5th Grade

NEW YouTube Art Tutorial! “April Showers Brings May Flowers” -2nd Grade

Winter Northern Lights! 5th grade Art Lesson

Blackout poetry – 5th Grade

Draw your own Inventions – 1st Grade

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Mixed Media Watercolor Self-Portraits – 5th grade

April 24, 2026 No Comments

I’m so excited to start this new lesson soon with my 5th graders! I’ve been having fun creating a variety of examples! Watercolors, sharpie markers, plastic sheet protectors, 9×12” 80# white drawing paper, oil pastels ( See below)

I created a few different variations of the first one (below)

Such a fun way to create a self-portrait and I think my students are going to love it!

Here’s what I did to create the first two:

I created the background painting first, by splattering watercolors, with all different colors, all over a sheet of 80# 9×12” white drawing paper with a watercolor brush. I think splattering smaller drops of paint with more paint than water on the brush works best for this technique.

I let the paint sit for a minute on the paper to allow the pigment of the watercolor paint to adhere and saturate the paper, creating the little dots of color here and there. Then I scraped the paint. I think I’ll have students use a piece of stiff cardboard for this, but I used a couple of index cards folded in half together, and turned the index card each time I scraped a section. A cut up cereal box would work great for this. Then the painting was set aside to dry completely. In the 1st photo above, I scrape randomly and in a wavy way. 2nd photo above, I scraped going from the center outward to the edges of the paper all the way around.

Then I took a couple of photos of myself and I also used one that I already had in my phone (the silly wide-eyed expression one looking at the drink) and printed them out as black and white on 8.5” x 11” white copy paper.

Then I slipped the black and white photo inside an 8.5” x 11” clear plastic sheet protector and traced all the contour lines of my face, hair and clothes using a fine point black permanent sharpie on the plastic. Once complete, I pulled the black and white photo out and put a white paper underneath the plastic sheet protector (so I could see my contour lines easily) and colored in my hair, eyes, lips and clothes with colored permanent sharpie markers. I love the texture that the sharpie creates when coloring on plastic! Zoom in on the photos above to see, if you’ve never tried this technique before. It’s so cool!

Then I just laid my colored plastic sheet on top of my painting. You can flip the plastic over to the other side and try it that way as well! There’s so many possibilities to the layout and the way the colors work together with this!

FYI— I did trim the sides and bottom of the plastic sheet protector with scissors after coloring in, in order to get rid of the three ring binder holes that it comes with, and to cut the other side to not make it a sealed edge.
Then once you SEPERATE the plastic just glue the back of your colored plastic sheet with a clear glue stick all over and glue onto your painting!

****More on what brand of sheet protectors and colored sharpies I used below****

For the 3rd one , I first drew random lines with pink and orange oil pastels on 80# 9 x 12” white drawing paper. Then I sprayed water (a fine mist) all over my paper lightly. Then I used blue watercolor paint to splatter randomly over the dampened paper. Then I scraped my paper using the same method with index cards as above and let dry. Then used the same methods with tracing contour lines and coloring with colored sharpies as above.

For images #4, #5 and #6 I created a plastic wrap resist technique. I painted pink/red circles one at a time randomly all over the 80# paper with watercolors, using a lot of paint, then immediately laid down a small cut square of plastic wrap on top of the circle. (You just need to make sure you put a lot of watercolor on your brush and make sure the paint is still wet before putting on the plastic wrap.Also make sure the cut plastic wrap/saran wrap is slightly larger than the circle.)
Then I pulled up the center of each plastic wrap square slightly, and twisted it in one direction tightly, to create the flower petal appearance. I did this for all the circles and then used only a tiny bit of red paint on my brush -but mainly water —and painted all around the plastic wrap flowers, filling in the negative space. Then left it to sit and dry for at least 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, or more, I peeled off the plastic wrap and let the painting dry for an additional 30 minutes before laying the plastic self-portrait on top to take a photo.

For the final picture (pic #7) I did the same technique as above with plastic wrap on watercolors, except I used a variety of colors. I painted one circle at a time and left a bit of white paper in the center, then painted a different color in each center, then applied the cut Saran Wrap on top and twisted. Then I pressed at the circles edges all the way around to let the paint bleed outside my painted circle a little, to create a slightly wavy edge. See pics below

This watercolor plastic wrap resist technique would be fun to use for creating a field of flowers with kids, or a vase of flowers!

I also did a few other paintings ( below) with plastic wrap and wet-on-wet technique with watercolors, but they didn’t really come out as I envisioned them to be, so didn’t use them.

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If any students are reading this, just want to point out that we all go through frustrations, set backs, disappointments, and challenges in art making—-even art teachers!! I know I was annoyed/ frustrated at times when I was creating these examples —but after a bunch of experimenting and perseverance—-I did end up excited and happy with some of my playful results!! So just remember, just keep trying and have fun and you never know what you might discover along the way!
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These are the colored sharpies I purchased on Amazon —I love them and they are very colorful and bright! Pack of 48 (for only 9.90!)

These are the plastic sheet protectors I purchased off Amazon below. Nice thickness, and crystal clear. 25 per pack for a little over $4

You can see in the pic below how clear these are

I also ordered the ones below by a different company—BUT don’t buy these—they have a slight texture to them and aren’t crystal clear as you can see in the photos below.
Too bad I bought 300 of them?!?! But I guess I’ll find a use for them for holding cooking recipes —or I could use them to make my sub plan binder look a little more organized haha

(if you zoom in you can see it has a rough texture to it )

I like using Crayola “Portfolio” brand oil pastels as you can see below- – but I know there’s a bunch of other brands that are just as good / if not better.

5th graders will be starting these once they finish up their “Splattered Paintbrushes” art lesson!

This mixed media watercolor self-portrait lesson is inspired by the contemporary Artist Cecilia Paredes (she is an amazing painter – check out her artwork if you haven’t seen her self-portraits!!!!) I’m excited to introduce my students to her work! Below is a link to view some of her incredible work!

https://echofinearts.com/artists/cecilia-paredes/?srsltid=AfmBOorcI7oDKTetuJTzHXX2Ujij9QrHTkp_gOqPU-wLEmjDoGUF6JPv

I’ll update this post (as well as my “5th Grade Art Lessons” page ) with photos of students working on their art as well as students finished artwork, and the learning goals for the lesson once complete!

Check out some of my recent posts below! (Clicking on the link will bring you right to that post! )

Mixed Media Cake inspired by Wayne Thiebaud

One point Perspective Cityscapes – 5th Grade

Blackout poetry – 5th Grade

Draw your own Inventions – 1st Grade

Winter Northern Lights! 5th grade Art Lesson

I also added a page “springtime art lessons” recently that have 39 springtime art lessons all in one place, with pics and links to my original posts with detailed steps. That can be found under the main menu or you can click Here!

Thanks so much for visiting my website today!

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Winter Cardinals -4th grade and Superhero Masks – 2nd grade!

March 14, 2026 No Comments

This will be my last winter art post for the season (Woo-Hoo! that’s a good thing!) Spring is just around the corner -thank god!! I’ll be posting a collection of “Springtime Art lessons” in a few days—so be on the look out for that! But in the meantime, I wanted to share some cardinals that recently wrapped up last week, and some fun superhero masks by my 2nd graders! —-I also have 4 NEW PDF hand drawn mask templates you can download and print out now in my TpT store too (more on that below).

One out of my (5) 4th grade classes finished painting their cardinals…the rest will finish up this coming week, and I’ll add more here after (as well as within the “4th grade art lessons” page).

This lesson took (4) 40 minute art classes to complete.

DAY 1: I demonstrated under the doc camera how to draw the cardinals on a sheet of 9×12” 80# white drawing paper. Students drew along with me as I drew starting with the cardinal, then the branch and snow, and then the tail feathers.
Once all of that was drawn, students added texture on the branch and then went over all their lines in sharpie.

DAY 2:

On day 2, I showed students how to color in their bird, branch and snow. We used colored pencils to color in, and I explained to press down hard while coloring in their bird red to make the color pop. For coloring in around the eye, I explained to press a little lighter, so the black wouldn’t completely blend in with the detail of the eye. They colored the beak orange, feet black, and branch with colored pencils and then added just a little bit of blue along the bottom of their snow along the branch. I explained to press hard with a blue colored pencil right where the snow meets the branch, and then gradually get lighter and lighter as you move up the snow, only to about 1/2 way. For some reason it’s not really showing in the photo in the artwork above.

DAY 3: On day 3, I demonstrated how to add shading using a black colored pencil within the bird, making sure to press harder along the edges and gradually pressing lighter and lighter, as it moves away from the edges. I also explained it’s important to overlap your lines as you do that step.

Then we outlined the bird, branch and snow with a black crayon (while pressing down hard). Doing this step helps create a barrier so that the watercolor paint won’t seep into those areas. Having pointier crayon tips (or sharpening them beforehand with a crayon sharpener) is helpful for this step as well.
Then we added some snow falling using a white crayon —making sure to press really hard as well. I reminded students even though you can’t see white on white paper – sometimes the way you hold your paper (if you tilt it just right) you can see the shiny parts from where you drew snow from the wax of the crayon on your paper. We talked about how this eventually would create a crayon-wax resist technique, (watercolors and wax don’t mix, and the paint won’t cover up the areas where you draw with crayon) when we paint the sky blue in the following art class.

DAY 4: Students used turquoise liquid watercolors (that was watered down a little) to paint their sky, revealing their snowflakes on the final day of the lesson. I like using Sax brand liquid watercolors for this lesson.

LEARNING GOALS:

Students can create, identify and define a crayon wax-resist painting technique

Students can create value changes in their bird with shading

Students can define the element of art “value”

Students can create, identify and define texture within their artwork

I’ll add more student artwork here later this week once they’ve finished!

2nd Grade Superhero Masks

Link to my TpT store to download a PDF of 4 different hand drawn masks is below – $3.99 for all 4 masks

This lesson is a fun project for ALL ages!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/art-with-mrs-filmore

This was a super fun one day lesson!! (40 minute class) *Some classes needed a day 2 to complete

I drew four different mask shapes, each on a sheet of 9 x 12” super heavy weight tag board paper and then ran each one through the copy machine. I recommend printing these out on “super heavyweight tagboard” (or thick cardstock)

Students could design their mask anyway they wanted with pencil first and then colored in with markers, crayons or colored pencils. Once finished they cut out their mask and then folded a little bit where the eyes were and then cut a tiny slice so they could get their scissors inside and then cut out the eyes.

Some students even decided to draw above the mask line to add other details as seen in the photos above like rabbit ears and additional details above their mask design. They were extremely creative!

To fit their mask to their face I had straps that I cut from the same super heavy weight tag board paper into 9“ x 2“ strips. Each mask got 2 strips. I helped them staple each strip end to each side of their mask first, then put the mask against their face to measure out where the straps should meet/ overlap and then stapled at that area, so it would fit snug on their head, but be able to come off easily at the same time.

Students LOOVED this fun and engaging lesson and wore them immediately after they were finished being sized. I had students asking me in the hall “Are we making masks tomorrow in Art?!!” They heard from their friends that’s what they did in art and were SO excited to make one too!

This lesson coincided with reading the book “Almost Super” within their classroom, at one of my schools.

After students finish their masks, you could have students draw their own superheroes too, or have them write about what their superhero name would be, what powers they have, what greater good are they fighting for, where does their superhero live etc. to connect to literacy!

LEARNING GOALS

Students continue to enhance their cutting skills
Students can use a variety of line, shape, color, texture, and pattern to design their own unique mask
Students understand that art can connect/ relate with other subjects

Link to my TpT store to download a PDF of 4 different hand drawn masks is below – $3.99 for all 4 masks

This lesson can be a fun project for ALL ages!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/art-with-mrs-filmore

——-Next, I’ll be adding a new blog post on a collection of various springtime art lessons, as well as 5th graders “Blackout Poetry” with their blackout poetry artwork!

——I also just added more photos to my “about me /Q+A” page (under my drop down menu on the main page at the top) and a funny little story (that I just remembered) involving making music video’s with a cam corder, when I was a teenager from back in the 90’s

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Winter Northern Lights! 5th Grade Art Lesson

February 15, 2026 2 Comments

WINTER NORTHERN LIGHTS – kids artwork included!

( My teacher example above )

Students artwork below!

This is a NEW art lesson that I created on 12/17/25. I’m SO excited on how these turned out! This is definitely a keeper in my curriculum and kids really loved creating them!! Such a fun process and I’m very proud of my students work (as they are too!)

The only materials needed are 12 x18” black paper ( I like to use Sax brand “Black Colored Art Paper” because of how saturated the color it is, and doesn’t have spotting or inconsistencies within the paper), 6” x 18” black paper, 12 x18” white paper, colored chalk pastels, white chalk pastel, scissors, a glue stick, a toothbrush, a plate for the paint, and white tempera paint.

I knew I wanted to create a fun landscape using chalk pastels for a winter art lesson and kept playing around with ideas in my head for a few days, then started experimenting at school. I really love how the northern lights came out and how the snowy trees pop against the black and all that vibrant color!

This lesson takes (4) 40 minute art classes to complete.
This winter lesson can be created throughout ANY of the winter months! December-January-February….March even! (If you live in New England, March is like the loooongest cold month (besides January of course haha!)

Day 1: Create the Northern Lights

On a sheet of 12×18” white drawing paper, draw 5 random wavy lines across the paper with pencil to create a template for the northern lights. Make sure no lines are overlapping.

Then cut along that first top line and toss that first top section away in the recycling.

Then place the remaining paper (template) on top of the 12×18” black paper, lining up both papers. Then using various colored chalk pastels, draw right on the edge of the white paper -AND- on the black paper, going back and forth to create a thick line and to create a lot of chalk dust. Use a variety of colors and switch colors as you move along the edge of the white paper. Overlap colors where they meet as well. Then once the entire edge is colored, use your finger to smudge upwards from the white paper onto the black paper. (I did try to use a different finger as colors changed here and there, but even if I didn’t and they blended a little, it was completely fine. I guess that really just depends on what effect you’re going for color-wise and what colors you choose.)

Blow on your paper to get rid of any residual chalk dust. Then cut along the second line, toss the top section out, line the two papers up again and apply the chalk along the papers edge in the same way as mentioned above, then smudge upwards. Repeat these steps until it fills the black paper (see photos BELOW). Then use your finger to smudge the bottoms of each line of color created, to soften the lines and blur them out a little bit.

***TIP***To get rid of any smudges / finger prints afterwards, wipe your fingers on a damp paper towel with water (or use a baby wipe) lightly rub your fingers together for a second or two to get rid of excess moisture, then use your slightly dampened (juuuust barely!) finger to wipe away any smudges you don’t want—— that trick really works great!

DAY 2: Add the stars/snow

On day 2, finish creating the northern lights with colored chalk if needed. (Not a lot, but some of my students needed to finish). Then dip a toothbrush into white tempera paint on a plate, (I use Crayola Tempera Premier), not too much! And rub your finger along the toothbrush bristles to help spread it evenly. Then flick all over the black paper with northern lights creating stars in the night sky (– or snow falling, depending on how you see it). Once complete, set aside artwork in the drying rack to dry.

DAY 3: Create the trees

On day 3, students each receive a sheet of black paper cut to 6” x 18”. Using white chalk pastel (no pencil sketching first) create trees by drawing an upside down “v” first for the top of the tree along the left side of your paper (forming each tree LEFT to RIGHT as you draw them).

Then draw lines going up and down only (overlapping the lines as you draw and leaving a jagged edge along the bottom).

Leave some black paper showing in between the next series of tree branches.

Then move onto your next tree. Create trees that are close together (they can actually overlap too) with varying heights all across the paper.

Also blow on the paper after each section of branches are complete to get rid of any residual chalk dust.

DAY 4: Cut out trees and glue on

Finish creating trees if needed. Once complete, cut out the trees as one piece (keeping them all attached near the bottom) but leave a small bit of black paper showing all around each tree as you cut. About a 1/2” all around trees.

Then flip over carefully and glue the back all over with a glue stick (making sure to cover the entire backside, especially the edges).

Then place along the bottom of the black northern lights paper lining the edges up before placing down. Make sure the paper is facing the right way first—-so that the northern lights are trailing UP not down. Press along the very bottom only—where there aren’t any trees—to attach, and then use another CLEAN sheet of 12×18” white paper to then lay on top of the whole thing (sort of roll it on over the trees) and press where the trees are to help reduce any smudging of the trees while gluing into place.

LEARNING GOALS:

Students can create a sense of space within their art, when creating the size and placement of their trees

Students can see how art and other disciplines, like science, can be interdisciplinary and helps generate new ideas and supports creative thinking

Students can demonstrate an understanding on how to blend colors, create texture, and show value changes using chalk pastels

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And to all you teachers out there reading this, I hope you have a great rest of your February break!!! Enjoy!

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”1 Point Perspective Cityscapes”- 5th Grade

November 1, 2025 6 Comments

SO proud of my 5th graders on this lesson! It took 6 to 7 (40 minute) art classes to complete them. (Can’t you just hear all my 5th graders saying “six-sevvven” right now haha)

On the first day of the lesson I explained what perspective meant in art, and showed students some example photos that show 1 point perspective.

Then I showed them the circle template that each student would receive. I drew a large 9” circle by tracing a plate on a sheet of 12×12” paper. Then using a ruler, created little lines along the inside of the circle to mark where students would draw lines using their rulers. I wrote a number at each little line indicating where they should connect their lines.

Students drew their lines connecting to each corresponding number using their rulers making sure to draw lightly. After that they started drawing buildings within each “pie slice” starting at the roofline. They had handouts of buildings to refer to for inspiration while drawing. They could make any building they wanted, and could of course create them from their imagination as well. I explained to create some taller than others, and to make sure that each building touched one another within their circle. I also mentioned to make sure to leave some space in the center for sky.

I also mentioned to make sure any windows drawn inside the buildings go from largest to smallest from the bottom up to show a sense of space and create the illusion that things are getting smaller and are further away from the viewer as they go up towards the vanishing point.

Once everything was drawn, students erased the guidelines created on day 1 that remained in the sky and traced over everything using a fine point sharpie.

After sharpie, students decided on whether they wanted to create a daytime or nighttime sky and created stars and moon or a sun and clouds with pencil. Then began coloring in using alcohol markers, using whatever colors they wanted.

Once finished, (some students finished on day 5, some day 6, and some day 7– but I think I should’ve had more moments of silent art to help them stay focused)— they cut their circle out and glued onto a separate sheet of 12×12” black paper.

These are some works still in progress below —- (my Monday and Tuesday classes are behind everyone else due to holidays and the fact that we started school this year on a Wednesday). I absolutely love the “pencil” store and cool 3D art museum below! My students had some very creative ideas for their buildings!

This is a new art lesson for me this year (2025) and I LOOVE it! I love the fact that it’s a circular design on square paper as well. Lesson idea from art teacher @kerry.daley_artteacher on Instagram. Thank you Kerry for such a cool lesson idea! My students really enjoyed this one!

Please check out my previous most recent posts below if interested!:

“Dotted Leaf Paintings – 4th Grade”
”Mixed-Media Leaf Impressions – 5th Grade”
”Owls at Night” – grades 2+3
”Art on a Cart”
”Pumpkin’s Starry Night” YouTube tutorial
”Drawing a Victorian House”
”Elementary Art Lessons: A quick glimpse of my website!

You can always use my “SEARCH” bar (in the drop down menu) to copy and paste in any of the above post titles to find them quicker as well! Also—- I will be posting finished artwork on k/1 Pumpkin’s Starry Night on Thursday night (11/6/25)! Thank you for visiting my website!

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Mixed-Media Leaf Impressions -5th Grade

October 26, 2025 No Comments

I’m excited to try this new lesson out with my 5th graders soon (once they finish their “1 Point Perspective Cityscapes”)

These are my teacher examples. I knew I wanted to do a leaf lesson and was playing around with some different ideas recently

I was out on a nice walk today and collected some leaves to bring back home to test out some ideas.

I had a lot of fun creating and testing out a few options and really like this one! I did a bunch of black crayon rubbings of various leaves on 80# paper (I actually didn’t have anything else at home, but I think that 60# might be better to get more details within the leaves veins for this)

Then used watercolors to paint over them (I’m thinking kids will choose either a warm color palette or a cool color palette

Then on a sheet of 80# white drawing paper cut to 9×9” I did multiple leaf rubbings of the same leaf going in different directions and overlapping each time. I think this will allow for any minor movement and be a bit more forgiving since they’ll overlap anyhow.

Then once the painted leaves are dry, kids will carefully cut them out and then glue down on top of their 9×9” layered leaf rubbing. thinking about what they want their composition to be.

I’m thinking they can choose from 3-5 leaves to cut out and glue. I’d better get on it and start leaf collecting! I will have 4 classes of 5th graders- and will need to flatten them in a few books so they won’t be crinkly or curled!!

Im thinking (3) 40 minute classes for this. Day 1- leaf rubbing with black crayon. Day 2- paint the 3-5 leaves they rubbed. Day 3- cut out and glue. But possibly 2 days?? I don’t want to rush this process though. And I think collecting the leaves ahead of time and pressing them will help with the time frame of completing this. ( Plus the possibility of a bad weather day if I have kids go leaf hunting/ plus the possibility of chaos near the playground / on top of wet leaves being an issue! Haha!)

Please check out my previous posts if interested!

”Owls at Night”
”Art on a Cart” (that’s me haha!)
”Pumpkin’s Starry Night” (I added new photos to this one with an update on the progress!)
I added a new page recently “Art Rules and Routines” as well as “Art on a Cart” in the drop down menu
I’ll be posting more artwork on 4th grade this week!
I’ll be posting finished artwork from 5th grade on “1 Point Perspective cityscapes” on Thursday evening 10/30/25 (I can’t wait to share finally!!!)
And finally -Please visit my TpT store for 50% off on my NEW Victorian architecture PDF resource packet among other updates! (Link to my TpT store is in the drop down menu on the home page)

Also you can just type in any of the above blog post titles in my search bar and find them that way!
Thanks so much for visiting my site today and reading this! I hope you have a great night!

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OP ART BY 5TH GRADE!

March 14, 2019 No Comments

5th Graders did such a fantastic job creating these op art paper cone drawings!!! I’m super proud of their hard work!!!

Students LOVED it too and couldn’t believe it could be created using just sharpies, and colored pencils!

This lesson took about 5 (40 minute) art classes to complete.

ON DAYS 1 and 2: Students were introduced to various OP Art by artists Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley, and learned what Op art was (Optical Illusion Art) with a quick slideshow of work.

Six straight lines that intersect at the same spot, were drawn ahead of time on 80# 10×10″ paper for each student with a ruler; Creating 12 “slices” in total.

Students followed along with me while I demonstrated under the document camera how to draw alternating curving lines within each pie slice, starting in the center.

Then they labeled every other slice with a “B” lightly in pencil, to mark that space as black.

Students then started tracing over the smallest slices labeled “B” in the center, using an extra fine point Sharpie, then filled in.

As areas got larger, kids switched to a Fine Point Sharpie, (since it has a thicker tip), and filled in the rest.

ON DAY 3, I reviewed the element of art VALUE with students and showed them how to create subtle value changes within each pie slice with colored pencils.

Students used a white colored pencil in the black areas first to create highlights, pressing hard with the white colored pencil down the middle, creating a bright white strip. Then as they drew from the middle outward, to each side, they pressed lighter and lighter, leaving the sides black.

Then, using a black colored pencil in just the white areas, they drew darkest along the sides and gradually pressed lighter and lighter towards the center—leaving the center strip white.

This lesson ties in nicely (and is a great precursor) to the grid drawing lesson that occurs later on in the year!

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check out the page “STUDENTS CREATING ART” —NEW PICS HAVE BEEN ADDED : )

AND BE SURE TO CHECK BACK THIS WEEKEND FOR 4TH GRADERS VICTORIAN HOUSES!!!

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GRID DRAWINGS inspired by Chuck Close! -5th GRADE

August 3, 2018 No Comments

Hello again everybody! Sorry for the long hiatus….. I meant to post this over a month ago when school was just out, but things have been pretty busy around here (and by busy I mean basically just totally chillin out and relaxing focusing on family, friends and my health—-but c’mon, can ya blame me?! It is summer break after all!

But back to the art lesson I’m posting about—-Grid drawings inspired by the amazing artist Chuck Close!

This was my last art lesson of the school year for 5^th grade. I have taught this lesson now for 5 years (4 years at the schools I’m teaching in now, and 1 year within another district). I think it’s one of the more challenging lessons for 5^th grade.

The images I print out aren’t super easy and although students have a choice on what image they want to draw, the lesson requires a lot of attention to detail and focus. Usually it takes students about 6 (sometimes even 7 (40 minute) classes to complete.

So with that in mind, I have NO IDEA why I planned on teaching it with only about 4 art classes left in the school year…. (you’d think by now I’d of realized doing so would mean kids probably wouldn’t finish. Well… that is what happened. BUT—art isn’t always about the final product. It’s about the PROCESS. Learning about new techniques, learning about different artists, creative decision-making, discovering things about yourself, learning from mistakes and persevering through challenges.

Many students did finish, and I’d say most were probably ½ way finished. I DID however, have them draw on WAY smaller paper. In previous years kids drew on 9×12” or 8×10”, but this time round, I had them draw on 5×7” to help speed things up a bit, while still keeping the same learning goals in mind.

Students worked so hard and I’m truly impressed with their beautiful drawings! Even if unfinished.

Ok, sorry….that was a lot of text to read… so here’s the artwork!! 🙂

Students selected one black and white photo of an animal. They could choose from about 15 different pictures.

I looked for images on Google that had a variety of value changes, were challenging enough in that they had some nice details, but tried to find ones with a simple background. Then I printed each of them as a 5×7” on 8.5” x11” printer paper.

When making a selection, I laid out each image in stacks of about 10 along a long table, then called groups of kids up (5 or 6 kids at a time) to make a choice.

Students used a 1” strip of cardboard to create their grids. I’ve had them use actual rulers before, but it proved to be too tricky getting accurate measurements and straight lines.

They drew a grid on their chosen black and white animal picture, then numbered each square, then drew the same exact grid on a piece of 5×7” drawing paper and numbered that grid as well.

Here’s some pics of students doing just that!

I explained to draw very lightly on the white drawing paper (so later on the grid lines and numbers wouldn’t show as much) but they could draw pressing much harder on their black and white animal pic in order to see the grid lines and numbers better.

To help students draw with a lighter touch, I showed them how to hold the pencil so their fingers gripped near the eraser rather than towards the pencils tip. The closer your fingers are towards the tip of the pencil, the more likely it is you will draw darker lines.

Once their grids were drawn and numbered, they drew just the contour lines of their animal, while observing just one box at a time. Like so…..

Once all the contour lines are complete, we reviewed what VALUE meant and after doing a demo under the doc camera, they started shading using various drawing pencils. I had them use just 2B, 3B, 4B and 6B.

I also had small handouts to refer to on a value scale with references on what pencil would probably work best for each value within their picture.

We also reviewed how you can change the value of the pencil marks by simply pressing harder or lighter as well.

Students also learned how to use a TORTILLION or aka a blending stump to soften/blur lines and create lighter values.

You can see the tortillion (not tortilla! Tortillion I joked with the kids) on this students picture of a giraffe.

Kids were amazed at how much detail they acheived and how accurate they could draw what they were seeing—-just by simply slowing down, and really paying attention to all the little details and nuances within each and every square!!

To view a great video and interview with Chuck Close himself– click on the video below!!

And another if you like!….

To view additional Grid drawings by my 5th graders in the past—- go HERE and then scroll down until you see it! This is also where you can view the learning goals of my lesson.

Thanks for stopping by!! I will be posting again within the next week or so—so Stay Tuned!! 🙂

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MIXED MEDIA BIRD NESTS- 5TH GRADE!

May 7, 2018 No Comments

LOVE, LOVE LOVE THESE!! This is a new lesson I introduced this year for 5th grade and it’s definitely a keeper!! Thank you Painted Paper Art for this wonderful lesson idea!

These are created by 5Y, 1 (of my 5) 5th grade classes! (Other classes are going on day 2 of the lesson later on in the week). It’s a 3 day art lesson (40 minutes each) and incorporates ALL the Elements of Art (value, shape, line, color, form, space, and texture!)

HERE ARE A FEW CLOSE-UPS OF INDIVIDUAL NESTS!

DAY 1:

Students created the nest using oil pastels on a 6×6″ sheet of manila tagboard. They drew a large circle with pencil, then chose whatever color blue they wanted, to fill in the background.

They then drew a small black circle in the center, a loop of dark brown around the black circle, then looped various shades of brown oil pastel within the remaining part of the nest, layering as they went around. After that they drew short, curved lines extending outside the nest with brown, to create little pieces of hay or sticks sticking out from the nest.

Students then used various shades of yellow and golds to overlap the brown, until the manila paper was completely covered with oil pastels. As a final step with oil pastels, students used black to lightly draw circles close together extending outward from the center, to create the illusion of space and the nest going inward in the center.

For the last step on day 1, students glued on strips of pre-cut, painted papers all around the nest, to add texture!

DAY 2:

On the second day of the lesson, students shaped and created 3 eggs out of model magic air dry clay and glued them on in the center of their nests with tacky glue. Then they glued down 8-10 small twigs using tacky glue to add even more texture to their nests! (BTW- Twigs were collected while walking my dog in the park on a previous day. With only 7 more art classes remaining before summer break, (although it might have been fun), I didn’t want students to spend an art class searching around the school for them!!)

I love the various shades of blue in this one!

I have to say, I REALLY LOVE tacky glue!! I’ve used it for so many art lessons recently and it’s WAAAAAY better than regular old white school glue! It adheres quickly (which is super important for this lesson) and best of all—dries clear!

These were all set aside to completely dry in Mason paper box tops until the following week!

DAY 3:

Students painted their eggs using liquid tempera (students could choose from a variety of blue/ blue-green paints).

They had the option to then add spots of white and brown speckles using the end of a paintbrush handle.

Students did a wonderful job creating their beautiful bird nests and eggs, I couldn’t WAIT to hang them all up!!!!

I hot glued twigs to create their sign and added some colorful cupcake liners for flowers! More nests to come SOON to fill in the empty spaces on this bulletin board!!!

Thanks for checking out my blog!! Be sure to check back tomorrow (Tuesday) night for another new post on some NEW artwork!!! To view other 5th grade artwork -click on 5th Grade Art Lessons under the drop down menu!

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