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Learning to Resist: Watercolor

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Consider wax resist drawings as a way to bridge art and science. Learners view, discuss, and practice drawing insects or animals using waxy crayons. They pay attention to the creature's features as they create images with watercolor and...
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Watercolor Landscapes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Van Gogh's Starry Night and Thomas Cole's The Oxbow are featured in a watercolor lesson that encourages young artists to explore various techniques before creating their own landscape.
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D¿rer Watercolor - Patterns and Texture

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students create watercolor paintings using their knowledge of elements of design, value, and texture, discuss concept of art reflecting time and place, review art-related vocabulary, and reflect on their work.
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Watercolor Rainbows

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Who doesn't love a rainbow? Little ones adore them, so why not make rainbows the subject of your next art project. Your class can use watercolor to paint rainbows. As they do, have them identify the colors in the rainbow, talk about how...
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Blick Liquid Watercolor

For Teachers K - 12th
Introduce this abstract art to your class; they must chose ordinary classroom objects and shapes to paint with watercolors. The overlapping effect will create a fun, abstract piece of art!
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Watercolor Collage

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study about Impressionism and Post Impressionism. They create a watercolor collage.
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Weaving a Watercolor

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the color wheel and work with watercolors. In this color lesson, students go over primary, secondary, and intermediate colors before watching a demonstration of watercolor brush techniques. They choose a shape to paint...
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Koi Pond

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create this beautiful koi pond scene using watercolor paper, crayons, and paints. This would be a fantastic project to link to a scientific study of pond life or a historical study of Japanese culture.
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Name Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Here is a fun, colorful, and engaging art project that is sure to get your kids excited! They make a piece of art using watercolor paints, and by making a design out of the letters of their first name. This would be a fantasti art...
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Egg-Stra Easy Watercolor “Crunch”

For Teachers K - 12th
It doesn't have to be Easter to enjoy this egg-stra fun art project. Kids crunch egg shells, saturate them with color, and glue them to boxes or other objects to make egg-stra special gifts.
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Raindrops Keep Falling on my Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Kids may be a little resistant to this rainy day idea, but it could produce some amazing art. They paint a watercolor picture of anything they like. When they are done, they take their paintings outside and let the rain work its magic!...
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Watercolor Ways

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the concept of being part of a global community. In this global community lesson, students learning the definition of stewardship as it relates to taking care of the Earth. They listen to the lyrics of the song,...
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Calico Watercolor Cats

For Teachers K - 2nd
A fun art project, this lesson plan incorporates math and listening skills as young artists play with a new painting technique. First the teacher models how to draw a cat using shapes, an oval for the body, triangles for the ears and so...
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After the Dance

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a crayon resist painting after exercising. They participate in an exercise session of dance and movement, discuss how they feel after exercising, and create a painting using watercolor crayon resist techniques.
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Botanical Illustration with Watercolor Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine anatomy of flowers as depicted in watercolor drawings, and create their own artwork.
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Watercolor Landscapes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore watercolor paints as a medium for landscape paintings. They use watercolor paints to create landscape paintings.
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Flower Bouquets

For Teachers K - 2nd
Picasso's Posies is the inspiration for a lovely watercolor painting activity. The class explores the use of line, shape, and space in art as they create an image using the traced outline of their hands holding three to five flowers....
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Paint a Wet-Into-Wet Watercolor

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Pupils demonstrate the technique of painting wet-into-wet. In this painting lesson, students create colors to paint with by mixing two or more colors together. Pupils use water color to create various images.
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Simon Edwards Watercolor Lesson Techniques Resource Pack

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the art of watercolor while discovering specific techniques used to create color. For this watercolor techniques lesson, students examine a variety of sample watercolor arrangements, practice the steps involved in...
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Rainy Day Watercolor

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a street scene using street pictures for reference. students explore symmetry using watercolors. Students use art mediums to explore the mathematical concept of symmetry.
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Watercolor Leaves

For Teachers K - 1st
Create your own fall landscape in kindergarten! After listening to a story about fall and discussing why leaves change colors, young learners use the crayon resist technique and color resist art technique to craft their own illustrations.
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How to Hold a Watercolor Brush

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice holding a water color paint brush correctly. For this watercolor lesson, students feel the way a balance paint brush is supposed to feel in their hands. Students then practice painting various shapes to master the...
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Storytelling Resist

For Teachers K - 5th
The illustrations of Ezra Jack Keats in The Snowy Day inspire young artists to examine shapes in illustrations and to use these shapes to create their own watercolor resist painting.
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Introduction to the Elements of the Water Cycle

For Teachers 4th
The basic elements of the water cycle and how water is recycled through our environment is focused on in this lesson. Your students construct classroom terrariums and learn to make and record observations relating to the water cycle....

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