Art Classroom Design Ideas – This school year, I will go on an extended maternity leave. As excited as I am to be home with my babies, I will definitely miss my classroom! I always look forward to setting up my art room at the beginning of the year. Freshly painted tables and chairs, sparkling clean floors, new bulletin board borders, bright new posters to hang – I love it all!
I usually start each school year with a post showing how I organize my art room and classroom management plan, but this year will be a little different. Instead, I’m going to show you some pictures of things that have worked great over the years and some new and exciting creations I’ve been working on in the art room!
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These visual art word cards are a great way to get kids learning art vocabulary AND a great way to show administration how you can incorporate literacy into your art room!
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Every year I hang them on the back wall of my classroom, so when my students are standing in line waiting for their teacher, they have a chance to look at my wall.
I’m making some exciting new updates to my Word Wall Maps this summer! Word names are now bolder and cards that include definitions are significantly easier to read.
Poster and Banner Elements and Principles Another thing I like to hang on the back wall of my classroom is my Art Elements and Poster Design Principles series. Placing these posters next to where my kids line up after class gives them another chance to familiarize themselves with the elements and principles.
The pack I sell in my TPT store has these posters in either 8.5″x11″ or 18″x24″ but the ones in my classroom I just scaled down in my print settings to print 13″x18″.
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This summer I am working on a new set of simplified elements and principles. These poster strips are printed 2 to a page and are approximately 3.5″ x 9.5″ each. The great thing about these new poster strips is that they are really easy to read from a distance. This makes them perfect for hanging above bulletin boards or whiteboards or anywhere else they can be placed! Each card features the name of an element or principle with a colored background representing the meaning of the word (similar to my visual art word wall cards).
Art Supply Labels You know who loves a messy art space? It’s not me! I’m like the queen of organization.. so the fact that my art room has gone six years without my labeled materials absolutely blows my mind! I made these art supply labels with the intention of not only labeling the outside of my plastic storage boxes, but also the outside of my closet doors (that way I would know exactly where everything was AND my students would know too)! Labeling my cabinets would be a great way to get my students to retrieve cutlery AND help me save valuable teaching time!
Since we as art teachers have TONS of different materials and supplies in our classrooms, I made a list of 200 common classroom art supplies and created labels for each one. I also included a blank template with written and video instructions in my package to help teachers create custom labels (in case they missed something).
Mixed Color Posters Several years ago, I painted a series of poster-sized mixed color posters to hang in my classroom to help my students learn primary, intermediate, and intermediate/tertiary colors. As time went on, I realized that I needed more than one set in my classroom (I wanted it to be easily visible to all my students). So I ended up creating a digital version of my mixed color poster.
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The best part about having these posters up in my classroom was that all of my students could easily refer to them if they forgot how to mix a certain color (this was especially helpful for my kids).
Art Genre Maps Learning to categorize works of art into genres is a great skill to teach your students – especially if it’s just something you need to cover on your SLO test! To help my students remember possible categories, I created these art genre cards! In years past, I’ve hung them right above my whiteboard/projector screen, so when I introduce my students to a new artist or piece of art, I can quickly have them categorize the artwork.
So, for example, if I had van Gogh’s “Starry Night” projected on the board, my students could conclude that the painting is either a landscape or a cityscape (which would make for an interesting debate), and that is a piece. from abstract art. .
Art Movement Flashcards Are you trying to incorporate more art history into your lessons? Or better yet, are you a high school art teacher? These modern art movement cards are the perfect way to introduce your students to 33 modern art movements! I made two different versions of this kit; a simplified series that contains the visuals, the name of the art movement, and the active years of the movement, and then a more complex series that also includes a brief description of the movement and some of the most active artists of the movement.
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My Modern Art Movement Artist card deck goes perfectly with my Art Movement cards! There are many different things you can do with them. You can post them on a bulletin board to create an art “word wall,” hang them to display information about a featured artist in class, use them as a header for a weekly artist chart, or even create an artist timeline. . to help your students visually see how artists have influenced each other’s work!
Each card features a photograph or painting of the artist himself, an enlarged example of his work in the background, the name, year of life and the art direction they are most associated with. The best part of this package? Over 200 artists are featured!
I am so excited about these new colored pencil poster cards I made because they look so cute and come in ALL the colors! Whenever I buy colored posters for my classroom, they only include the 9 primary colors, so I ended up making my own! This set includes yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange, red, red-violet, purple (and purple), blue-violet, blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green, white, gray, black, brown. , pink! It also has a variety of popular color schemes and other add-ons to help you organize them the way you want! They are seriously so adorable!
This pack is similar to my pencil cards in that they show ALL the colors (3rd included), but this pack of color mixing poster cards also has a visual in the corner that shows you which colors need to be mixed together to make that color. ! This kit is a great way to help students learn color names, classify them, and create them in different media!
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*Package includes colors: Red, Red-Orange, Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow, Yellow-Green, Green. blue-green, blue, blue-violet, violet (with additional violet substitute), magenta, pink, brown, gray, white and black. (White and black are not shown in the preview below.)
Color Descriptive Poster Do you want your students to start talking about colors more descriptively (or at least more like light blue or dark blue)? Yes – me too. So I made these descriptive color posters. I have two different versions of this item to suit different decorating tastes and both versions have 9 color posters (full page or half page) and two possible title posters. One of the title posters reads “The Many Shades of Color” and the other reads “Variety of Color”.
Why do you ask Although different colors within a shade are often referred to as “shades” of a color, technically they are not all. This becomes especially confusing for our younger students who are learning about color in the context of hues and shades – hence color + black. You can get around this confusion by simply using the “Color Variety” header card. 🙂
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