Wizard Week: Salt Dough Unicorn!

Every time we do a salt dough clay project, the crowd goes wild! This project was no exception. I'll walk you through how to make your clay and dye it before we dive into our lesson. Here are the supplies you'll need:

 Here we go:

Want to join the fun today? You can catch me live here on my Instagram or on my Facebook page. Or check me out later on my YouTube channel. I add new videos everyday so be sure and subscribe so you don't miss any! 

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Let it Glow: Monsters in the City!

A lesson that I was sharing a lot of images from on my Instagram got a whole lot of love and questions this year and that was this Monsters in the City project! After learning about the artist Kudu-Lah, my students began by designing their cities and creating a series of monsters. I thought I'd share some images from our project but also create a video to walk you and your students through. Because these works of art were going to be apart of our Glow Gallery, I'll be sharing my favorite glow products from Pacon. With my students, we used 24"X36" sheets of paper for the cities and 12"X18" paper for the monsters. I'll be working half that size for the video. And my paper of choice is Pacon's Mixed Media paper. Here you go:

If you are doing this at home, try using a permanent marker to draw your cities and monsters with. Then add color with crayons, markers, colored pencils or paint! 

 In my thirty-minute art classes, my fourth graders spent two days drawing their cityscapes. 

The following day we used fluorescent oil pastels and watercolor for the sky. 

Then we created TONS of monsters! I had them make as many as they could to really loosen them up. I love the variety they achieved! 

 We used our fluorescent paint to make them glow!

Then we cut them out to add to our cities! We used a little bit of foam and cardboard glued to the back of the monsters to make them pop up from our cities. For a sneak peak of last year's glow gallery, check this out:

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Wizard Week: Let's Draw a Wizard's Castle!

What a wizard-y wonderful time we had yesterday when we learned to draw these castles! If you missed out, just grab these supplies:

 And follow along with me right here:

This was such a wonderful review of our elements of art!

And here's what we're creating today! You can follow me LIVE on my Instagram, on Facebook or catch the afterparty on my YouTube channel! 

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Let's Make an Abstract Word Painting!

Let's create an abstract word-painting! This one is fun and easy. All you'll need is a piece of paper, a permanent marker, water-based markers, a cup of water and a paintbrush. When you are finished with this painting, try painting your name as the words or someone else's name, like mom or dad! Let's get started:

Have fun!

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Wizard Week!

Every week, my amazing artists have been asking for a Wizard Week and I'm excited to share that it's here! This week I have a fun line-up with some surprises sprinkled throughout that you'll only know about if you join Art Class with Cassie LIVE!

To join me LIVE, you can find me on my Instagram or my Facebook at 11am CT. If you ever miss out, not to worry! All art classes are posted to my YouTube channel the very next day. I share videos there almost every day so you might want to subscribe so you don't miss a thing!

Like nearly every week, let's kick this one off with a Wizard Selfie! I'll share lots of different ways to draw yourself as a wizard.

Who doesn't want a baby dragon? If you don't have construction paper, white paper will work great too! 

 Every wizard needs a castle! Let's design and draw yours!

 I've been getting a lot of unicorn requests so let's make one out of salt dough clay! I'll share with you how to make your clay first. No ingredients? Grab your Play-Doh or other favorite clay instead!

 We'll end our week with some Potion Bottle Pop-Ups!

I hope y'all are as excited about this week as I am! Big thanks to our sponsors Art to Remember and Ticonderoga! Y'all are simply the best. Be sure and check them out! 

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Outer Space Week: A Wrap Up!

This past week was Out of this World! We not only had space week but I also shared an Earth Day project each day! If you missed any of the Outer Space Projects then look no further, I've got them right here. If you want to check out the Earth Day projects, just hop over to my YouTube channel and search the "Let's Make" playlist! 

This was our sixth week of Art Class with Cassie and I excited to announce that next week our theme will be...Wizards! Stay tuned tomorrow for the list of projects and supplies needed. Until then, here's all the Outer Space projects from this week. 

Oh! AND just to make sure you don't miss out on next week, I go LIVE every weekday at 11am CT. You can find me live on my Facebook and my Instagram. If you've missed any of our themed weeks, you can find all of the videos on my YouTube channel! Be sure and subscribe, new videos are added every day! 

We did created collagraph rocketship prints on Friday!

Made fun puppets on a moon stage on Thursday!

Wednesday was a kid-favorite as we created Salt Dough Solar Systems!

Making this Talking Alien was a whole lot of fun too!

And on Monday we created Astronaut Self-Portraits!

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Earth Day Art Lessons: Earth Without Art Poster!

Ending this week of Earth Day Art Lessons with this Earth Without Art Poster! In this short video, I'll show you how to draw your palette earth and do this fun printing technique! Here are the supplies you'll need:

For Drawing: 
* Paper
* Permanent Marker

For Coloring:
* Crayons

For Printing:
* Foil
* Markers
* Damp Sponge

When you get ready to print, it's important to make sure your paper is pretty damp. If it is too dry, it will not pull the marker from the foil. However, you can just try it again! Redampen your paper and print the foil once more. If you don't have a sponge, a spray bottle of water works great too. Have fun!

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Outer Space Week: Talking Alien Pop-Up!

"Take me to your leader!" Yesterday we had so much fun creating these talking aliens! Let me show you how. First, grab these supplies:

 Now, let's create!

Have fun! If you want to create LIVE with me today, here's what we'll be up to. You can join me on my Facebook page, my Instagram or catch the after-party on my YouTube channel. Be sure and subscribe, new videos are added every day!

See you soon!

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Outer Space Week: Salt Dough Solar System!

If you joined me for my live art class either on my Facebook or my Instagram then you know...this art lessons was easily a favorite! I know you'll have a blast and your artwork will be out of this world! Grab some cardboard and crayons for the background. To create the planets, you can use Play-Doh or I'll teach you how to creat Salt Dough Clay with 1/2 cup of flour, 1/4 cup of salt and 1/4 cup of water as well as food coloring. Let's create!

For more videos like this one, be sure and subscribe to my YouTube channel!

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Earth Day Art Lessons: Pop-Up Earth Day Card!

Wanna create a fun pop-up card for Earth Day? This method could be used many ways to make pop-ups: a pop-up emoji face, a pop-up pizza, even a pop-up earth. Anything that's round can be the inspiration for this card! Grab some paper, scissors, crayons and markers and let's create.

Have fun! 

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Earth Day Art Lessons: Let's Give Earth A Hug!

Wednesday is Earth Day but I thought it would be fun to celebrate all week! Let's kick things off by giving earth a hug! Here's how:

I hope you have fun creating! Be sure to subscribe here so you don't miss out on any Earth Day art projects! 

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Dinosaur Week: A Wrap Up!

Dinosaur Week was such a blast, thank you so much for joining! In case you missed any of our creative fun, I've put 'em all together in a blog post right here. Let's start with Friday. We created these amazing Dinosaurs in the City inspired by the book If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most!

On Thursday, we learned that Dinosaurs Love Snacks and created a pop-out dinosaur mouth featuring their favorite imagined snack foods:

Wednesday was probably my favorite day as we went on a Dino Dig!

On Tuesday, we created these fun hatching Dinosaur Egg Pop-Ups!

And we kicked off the week with these Paleontologist Portraits!

I hope you'll be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel as new videos are added almost every day! Also, if you want to join the fun live next week for Outer Space Week, you can do so on my Instagram or Facebook. See you real soon!

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Dinosaur Week: Pop-Up Dinosaurs Love Snacks!

Our Dinosaur Week adventures continued on Thursday with this super fun activity: Dinosaurs Love Snacks! Here's the supplies suggested:

And here's the video so you can create along with me!

Have fun!

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Let's Make a Pop-Up High Five!

It's National High Five Day! Let's celebrate with this easy and fun pop-up. Grab paper, glue, scissors, crayons or markers and a strip of cardboard or a ruler about 12" long. Here we go:

Have fun!

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Dinosaur Week: Dino Dig!

We had so much fun creating dinosaur bones yesterday with our simple salt dough clay recipe! If you don't have the ingredients, any clay will work. Modeling clay is the only one that will not air dry but the others like Play-Doh or Model Magic would work great. Here's what we used:

You can create any ole dinosaur or imagined creature that you like. If you are using your own clay, just zip through the part where I make my salt dough clay.

Have fun! If you'd like to join us today, here's what we're creating:

Pop-Out Dinosaurs Love Snacks! You can create with me LIVE on my Instagram or my Facebook. Or you can catch the afterparty on my YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe, new videos are added nearly everyday! 

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