The other night I had my first back-to-school anxiety dream of the summer. My art room was HUGE, The students weren’t paying attention because they couldn’t hear me across the football field that was my room. I was opening cabinets and drawers and I couldn’t find the right art supplies. Just as a student was climbing on top of a desk to dance—my principal walked in the room. That’s when I woke up…whew!
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Here at Pop Art School we like to call cardboard “an art teacher’s best friend”. That’s because it’s free, readily available and it can be utilized for 2-D and 3-D projects. Not only that, it feels good to reuse and recycle something destined for the dumpster.
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Here’s a roundup of 10 free apps we use every day to run Pop up Art School. This powerhouse of apps helps us with bookkeeping, storing receipts, slideshows, copy editing and creating graphics for social media. If you own a small business, or just getting started, we hope this helps you.
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I only have 10 more classes to teach and then I’m done for the summer! I’m already thinking about next year and evaluating which projects made my heart go pitter-patter and which ones need some improvement. Here are my faves and fails from the year.
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At the end of the school year when I’m low on supplies and running out of inspiration for new lessons, I show my favorite video to my elementary art students. It’s uplifting and inspires them to create something from nothing.
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Have you ever dreamt of having your own art studio? If you are creative and you like to teach I’m willing to bet you have.
Today we’ll compare owning a brick and mortar art studio to the Pop up Art School model of a mobile art school.
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It‘s art fair season for art teachers. Time to hang hundreds of pieces of art made by the children we teach. It‘s the culmination of an entire year’s work. The prep is tedious and detail oriented but the result is glorious! It’s exciting to see everything displayed and observe the student’s, staff and family’s reactions.
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What do you do at the end of the school year when you’re feeling burned out, low on supplies and the kids want to be anywhere but a classroom? We’ve got two ideas for end-of-the-year games to play in the art room. The first is a drawing game for kids in grades 1-12 and the second is an art history game for middle and high school.
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I recently spoke to someone from our Facebook group Freelance Art Teachers in Libraries. She wanted to know how she should promote her classes to the libraries where she lives.
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