Teaching Art

Besides being an artist, Karen Phillips is also a full-time elementary art teacher. She teaches lessons based on famous artists, world cultures, and art mediums that actively engage students and push them to be creative thinkers. See examples below and shop her Teachers Pay Teachers store of over 100 teaching resources here!

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Mega Country Bundle: Introductions to the Art Culture, Sights, and Food

This Mega Country Bundle includes 28 slideshows about different countries. Students will enjoy learning about food, clothing, art, tourist attractions, languages, music, and much more about each country.

Light Painting: Slow-Motion Photography Lesson

Learn an easy and exciting method for teaching photography to all ages, from elementary to adult. In this lesson, students will learn how to draw in the air with holiday strings of lights and capture these images using slow-motion digital photography.

Pipe Cleaner Toy SculpturE Lesson

This engaging art lesson will teach your students how to sculpt their own toy with pipe cleaners. They can also add broken toy parts to the sculpture to turn "something old into something new."

Henri Matisse Shape Collage Lesson

Students will learn some facts about French artist, Henri Matisse, such as his use of wild color in paintings, and his geometric and free-form shape collages. Students will see examples of his work, types of shapes, and then will make their own shape collage.

Georgia O'Keeffe Warm and Cool Flowers Lesson

Students will learn some facts about American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, and see examples of her paintings. Then they will pick from 28 provided full-color photographs of flowers and draw their own up-close flowers.

The Art Museum Game

In this game students pretend they have to buy $1,000,000 worth of art for their art museum. They must work together with a group to decide which pieces of art are the most important ones to add to their collection.