Lighthouses and Minibooks
The Library of Congress has a great collection of activities suggestions and resources for parents who are looking for educational activities they can do at home with their kids. The collection is called Resources for Family Engagement. Within this collection you will find activity kits that offer directions and ideas for making mini books at home, designing […]
Doodle for Google 2021 – “I am strong because…”
The Doodle for Google art contest is back for the 13th year in a row! This year’s theme is “I am strong because…” Just like all previous editions of the contest, Doodle for Google 2021 asks K-12 students to create original artwork that addresses this year’s theme. Students then have their artwork submitted on their […]
Six Online Whiteboard Drawing Tools
Thanks to an email from a reader I was alerted that a few of the online whiteboard tools that I have reviewed in the past are no longer working. Here’s an updated list of online whiteboard tools that you and your students can use for free. Scratchwork is an online whiteboard and video conferencing tool designed […]
Brush Ninja – Make Animated GIFs on Your Desktop or Mobile Device
Brush Ninja is a free tool for creating animated GIFs. Unlike some similar tools, Brush Ninja works equally well in the web browser on a Chromebook, Windows or Mac laptop, iPads, Android tablets, and iOS and Android phones. To make an animated GIF on Brush Ninja simply go to the website and start drawing on […]
13 Great Drawing Lessons for Students
ShowMe is a popular app for creating whiteboard style instructional videos on iPads, Android tablets, and Chromebooks. ShowMe users have the option to publish their videos for inclusion in a public gallery of instructional videos. It was in that gallery that I found thirteen videos published by an art teacher named Nikkie Milner. The topics […]
How to Create Animations With ABCya Animate
ABCya Animate is a free tool that students can use to create animations. It can be a great tool for elementary school and middle school students to use to create animations to use to tell a short story. For example, in my demonstration video the animation I started to make could be used as part […]
1766 Free Lesson Plans for Art Teachers
My refrigerator is quickly getting covered with the art my toddler makes with her Crayola crayons and construction paper. Looking at one of her boxes of crayons over the weekend I was reminded of Crayola’s huge collection of lesson plans. Crayola’s lesson plan library contains 1766 free lesson plans. There are lesson plans for every […]
Doodle 4 Google is Back for 2018
Google’s annual drawing contest is back again for 2018. This year’s Doodle 4 Google theme is inspiration. The contest is open to students in grades K through 12 in the United States. To enter the contest students should create a drawing that represents something that inspires them. The drawing, of course, must include the word […]
Flip Anim – Quickly Create Animated GIFs
Flip Anim provides possibly the easiest way draw and create an animated GIF. Within minutes of learning about Flip Anim on Larry Ferlazzo’s blog I had created a couple of animated GIFs illustrating basic addition problems. One of those is included below. To create an animation on Flip Anim simply go to the site and […]
Tony Vincent Teaches Us How to Make Great Illustrations
Over the weekend my friend Tony Vincent sent me an email about a new video that he made about Adobe Illustrator Draw. Adobe Illustrator Draw is a free iPad app and Android app. It’s the app that Tony uses to make the awesome illustrations that appear in his presentations, on his website, and in his […]