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• Watercolor Winter Landscapes Art Lesson
  This watercolor painting lesson will teach how to create a winter landscape using simple watercolor techniques. It is for grades 1 to 8 and can be adapted to the older grades by creating more difficult trees on the landscape. Students will find this watercolor painting lesson easy and fun to do.
• Cackles, Creaks, Moans and Groans: Musical Stories for Halloween Fun
  Halloween is almost here! These entertaining Halloween books can be used in the elementary music classroom as well as the general classroom. My kids love reading these stories with me as they perform the actions and/or sound effects while learning concepts of sequencing, counting, and listening.
• Recycled Shoes Make Great Sculptures
  Let your shoes do the talking with these easy and fun to create sculptures.
• Watercolor Painting Lessons to Create a Winter Window Scene
  This easy watercolor lesson will produce a frosted window of a winter scene using watercolor techniques for a sky, tree branches and window ledge. Grades 4 to 8 will enjoy this easy winter watercolor project.
• Make Some Fun Paper Art
  Take paper crafts to a new level when you make your own handcrafted paper, make string paper beads, design paper masks and fold origami water bombs.
• Three Types of Adaptable Art Projects Through Collage
  These ideas for short art lessons are for creating simple and easy collages in unique ways. Students will enjoy creating a large extended picture out of a small magazine picture. Other collage ideas are given for students to try which can be simple or complex. Fun and creativity are easily mixed.
• Painting Realistic Self-Portraits: A 7th Grade Lesson
  This portrait painting lesson teaches how to paint realistic self-portraits using the right proportions. Kids use the previous drawing faces lesson to help with the painting of the eyes, skin and hair details of their own face. Students will be amazed at how pencil drawings can be transformed!
• Creating a Plaster Mask of a Human Face: 7th Grade Art Project
  This 7th grade art lesson teaches how to create a plaster human face mask. Students will use the previous painting faces lesson to help with the painting of the eyes, skin and hair details of a human face. Students will be amazed at their plaster mask making skills after completing this project.
• A Pop Can Art Project for Elementary Students
  This easy art project will have students use pop cans as recycled materials to create a conservation themed sculpture. Students in grades 5 - 8 will enjoy creating shoes, purses, hats and sculptures out of their favorite pop can.