Thanksgiving Art Lesson

Thanksgiving Turkey Lesson
Creating patterns
Focusing on fine and gross motor skills

Elementary school age 

Special Education

Day of the Dead - Mexican Sugar Skulls - Dia De Los Muertos

Dia De Los Muertos

Mexican Sugar Skulls

Fall Pumpkins

Fall Pumpkins

Special Education - Elementary and Middle School Age

Materials: Construction paper, crayons

Step by step approach

Teaching students about gradients and natural shadows, while practicing gross and fine motor skills

Op Art Lesson

Op Art Lesson - Interdisciplinary (Math & Art)

Special Education - High School

We had pre-cut circles for the students who had some difficultly, they all used a ruler and created their layout. Then they chose 2 colors to work with (a lesson on color theory as well). This lesson kept students focused while practicing some of their math skills.

Winter Theme Collages

Winter Theme Collages

High School - Special Education

Artist Focus: Megan Coyle

Focusing on fine and gross motor skills

3D Stuffed Turkey Thanksgiving Art Lesson

 3D Stuffed Turkey Thanksgiving Art Lesson

Students create their turkey drawing, they copy it and make a mirror image of it.

(I let the students trace on top of the first one and reverse it)

Then we color them in, "stuff" them with newspapers and hang them up in the classroom.

The students love this lesson and you can do it with anything, I have a lesson with tropical fish and "stuffing" them.

Pop Art 'Build a Burger' Lesson

 Build-a-Burger - Pop Art Burger Collages (12” x 18”)

Artist Focus: Claes Oldenburg

Special Ed - High School

Field trip to Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), viewing “Regarding Warhol” Pop Art exhibit and taking students to Shake Shack to purchase burgers (ADL skills)