Back to School Sale!!

Back To School Sale!! My store is 20% off plus 10% from TPT!! Grab up art projects for the year!!
Here is the link to my store:
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Gena-Mcwilliams

Another Back to School Freebie

I have been trying to think about what teachers my need from an art teacher. I was reminiscing about how I had my room organized with everything my students did in my classroom was about art or art appreciation or art history. One of the favorite activities my early finishers enjoyed were the word search puzzles ( they were all art terms or artists in history) and my coloring sheets. I was inspired to create a coloring book about jungle animals. The book contains 10 sheets of simple black and white line drawings of cartoon-like jungle animals- all my creations and hand- drawn by me! Here is the link:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mizz-Macs-Jungle-Animal-Coloring-Book-1355615

I hope you all enjoy them. Comments are appreciated. Mizz Mac

TPT and Back to School

TPT has taken down the freebie page I wrote about in the last posting. I have been working hard to rework some of my back to school ice breakers. I have added photographs of examples and have kept the prices at $1.50. Here are some of them with links:http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Drawing-with-Beginners-398360

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Line-Designs-for-Beginners-781986

Back to School Art Freebie

I have been working hard to make over some of my products and have created a new freebie. I hope you will like it and down load it. Be aware if you download it, TPT has developed a new Freebie page which will show you other products from other sellers that you might be interested in. This is similar to what Amazon does.  Thank you, Mizz Mac
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Ice-Breaking-with-Line-Designs-1339838

Sunshine, Sunflowers, and Vincent van Gogh for back to school

When I was driving down the Golden Isle parkway this summer on my way to Saint Simons Island, I saw a field full of beautiful sunflowers. I also saw on Facebook a posting about a beautiful field of sunflowers in Bolingbroke. These two sightings inspired my compilation of four art lessons based on Vincent van When I was driving down the Golden Isle parkway this summer on my way to Saint Simons Island, I saw a field full of beautiful sunflowers. I also saw on Facebook a posting about a beautiful field of sunflowers in Bolingbroke. These two sightings inspired my compilation of four art lessons based on Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflower painting. Here is a portion of one of the lessons:

•      Look at your sunflower. What would you draw first? A Circle for the center? What would you draw next? Ovals for petals?

•      Draw a minimum of 5 flowers on your paper with a pencil.

•      Color brightly with crayons or oil pastels. No white spots of paper can show on the flowers!

•      Outline the flowers with black oil pastel or crayon.

•      Paint the white background of your paper with light colors of watercolor.

You can find the whole package of lessons including an introduction to Vincent bio page, photographic examples, and a simple art assessment in my store at:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-with-Vincent-van-Gogh-Sunflowers-and-sunshine-1326800

Mizz Mac's tips for buying art easels for children's art

Mizz Mac is back with a few tips for parents or grandparents about buying art easels for children. The first easel we bought for our grandchildren was plastic with a white marker board on one wide and dry chalk board on the other. The drawing surfaces were quite small and tray underneath wasn't designed to hold much. There was only a plastic clip to hold one sheet of paper. This easel was fine when my granddaughter took up painting but when my grandson decided it was time for him to start drawing, they couldn't draw on one side and paint on the other without getting frustrated. We decided to buy another easel. We bought two instead. The easels are taller and have adjustable height. One side has a dry erase white board and the other side is dry chalk board. The surfaces are larger and the easels are angled a bit with a nice tray to hold art supplies. The dry erase surfaces are erasable with paper towels. Crayola has dry erase markers and dry erase crayons and large crayon shaped colored chalk on the market. I personally saw these products at Kmart.

By the way, having two easels for two artists is working out great! They are both drawing quite well and are not getting frustrated with each other. 

Here is a picture of my grandson’s drawing: 

(he is in a rocket ship blasting off to the moon!)

www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Gena-Mcwilliams