Read Dr. Jenny Brockis’ blog post on doodling to understand why doodling may be good for your students.  Then if you want to read about an actual study of doodling and how it affects memory, go to this Time magazine article.  Then for some hands-on fun with doodling, go to Art.com and create a few [...]

I have creativity on the mind so I googled art appreciation for kids, which linked me to an excellent website.  The Incredible Art Department is sponsored by Princeton and moderated by Ken Rohrer, an elementary school art teacher from Indianapolis.  It would take me way too long to describe everything on this site, so I’ll [...]

I really don’t have much of a sense of color so I was excited to find simple color wheels that help you decide on good color combinations, depending on whether you want to use warm or cool colors and whether you want your colors to be complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, rectangle or square.  If you [...]

If you want to introduce your students to art, visit the National Gallery of Art kids’ activities.  You can find video visits to different exhibits and online art activities.  I love that the interactive art activities are tied to real artists or artistic periods.

Here’s a creative art contest for students in grades K-12.  Teachers have to register their classes for students to particpate and in addition, must submit each student’s entry form, parent consent form, student doodle, student title for doodle and student supporting statement.  The topic is “If I could do anything, I would …”  What a [...]