Under the Sea Week!

 Hello, friends! Who's ready for Under the Sea Week? I'm so excited to kick things off with a selfie that we'll be bubble printing on! 

In case you don't know...you can join me for live art class on my Instagram page or my Facebook page. If you miss a class, no worries, I always post the lesson the following day to my YouTube channel. Here's what's in store this week:

Last week we explored a bunch of collage techniques for our hamburger. I thought we'd continue that by creating a Coral Reef Relief Sculpture!

Y'all know it wouldn't be a week of Art Class with Cassie without some salt dough clay, right? If you are low on supplies, any clay would work from Model Magic to Play-Doh. 

What do sharks snack on? Let's draw what we think they might enjoy with this fun pop-out!

The kids have been BEGGING for a mermaid project so here we go! We'll do a fun printing technique for the background to create a tie-dye effect. 

And here's the line-up! If you know some kiddos who would enjoy, please feel free to share. Also, big thanks to our sponsors, Art to Remember and Ticonderoga!

Top Six Mother's Day Projects!

This week, on my YouTube channel, I've been sharing a new Mother's Day project each day! I thought I'd put them all together here in case you need something for dear ole mom (or you know some kiddos who need to get to creatin'). You'll only need paper, glue, glue stick or tape, scissors and something to draw and color with. Here we go:

Why not brighten mom's day with a pop-up rainbow?

Or spend some time writing about what a star she is in your life with this project:

This MOM/WOW project was a huge hit this week!

And, lastly, try this origami house that you can draw your family inside:

And this optical illusion heart is just so fun and easy to make with amazing results!

Happy Mother's Day!

Snacktastic Chefs Week: Salt Dough Pizza and 3-D Cake!

 Alright you snacktastic chefs! Here's a little bit of a round-up of our projects from Wednesday and Thursday. In case you missed, we made Salt Dough Pizza! Here's the list of supplies:

And here's the video:

On Thursday, we made cake!

 All you need are the following supplies:

I'll show you how to draw both of these cakes right here:

Today we are BAKING! It's important to set that butter out about an hour before I go LIVE so it is softened. You can bake cookies with me on Instagram, Facebook or catch me later on YouTube. New videos are uploaded to my channel multiple times a day so you might want to subscribe!

Let's Make a Star Pop-Up!

Need a fun project for Mother's Day or any day? For this Glow Gallery star project, I'm using supplies by Pacon. You can shop their entire glow store here for all of your glow art show needs! I am using their Pacon paper and their Creativity Street Tempera Sticks. You can check out the video here:

I did this project years ago as a sub plan, if you can believe that! Here is what we created then and the supplies we used:

You can see more about this project in this blog post. Also, here is the video for this lesson:

Have fun!

Snacktastic Chef's Week: Hamburger Sculptures and Chef Selfies!

If you missed yesterday's art project, don't worry! The video is now here. This one was an Art Class with Cassie favorite. The hamburgers the kids created were AMAZING! I hope you have fun. Here's the video:

Also, if you missed the Chef Selfie project here you go:

Join me LIVE today as we make a slice of pizza! We'll be sculpting our own pizza made from salt dough clay. Here's the supplies you'll need:

To join us LIVE, you can find me on my Instagram, my Facebook or just catch the afterparty the following day on my YouTube channel. I add new videos every day (sometimes more than once a day!) so you might want to subscribe so you don't miss any! 

Let's Make a Mother's Day Masterpiece!

Need a fun and easy project for Mother's Day? Here you go! Grab some paper, pencil, marker, permanent marker, paintbrush and water and I'll show you how to make this masterpiece in this short three-minute video! 

Wizard Week: Pop-Up Potion Bottles and a Wrap Up!

Hey there, you magical creatures! Wizard Week was so much fun! In case you missed any of the magical art projects from Wizard Week, don't worry. I've got them all for you right here! On Friday, we wrapped up the week with these Pop-Up Potion Bottles. All you'll need is two pieces of paper, markers, crayons, scissors and glue!

On Monday, we kicked it all off with our Wizard Selfies. These were the cutest little wizards you ever did see!

On Tuesday, we created Baby Dragon Puppets and, even though it was a little tricky, that was easily everyone's favorite project of the week!

On Wednesday, we drew castles!  

Thursday's adventure included everyone's favorite: salt dough clay! I walk you through the recipe on this day so just have your supplies handy!

I hope y'all enjoyed Wizard Week as much as I did!

Let's Make a R2D2 Collagraph Print!

Yesterday I shared a Talking Baby Yoda project and it was so fun that I wanted to make a project based on my other fave Star War's character: R2D2! For this, you'll need a cereal box, scissors, glue, markers and foil. When doing the printing portion, you'll need paper and a way to dampen your paper. I use a sponge but a spray bottle would work as well. If you pull a print and it turns out too dry looking, try it again and dampen a new piece of paper a little more. It was just needing more water. If it looks too blurry, try adding less water. You'll get the hang of it with practice. Here we go:

Have fun! 

Let's Make an Origami House!

Mother's Day is around the corner! I thought I would create some fun videos of projects that could be created for any occasion or to celebrate mom on her special day! To create your origami house, all you'll need is paper and something to draw and color with. Have fun!

Let's Draw Baby Yoda with a Pop-Out Mouth and Cup!

Happy May the Fourth! To celebrate, I created a little video that will show you how to make this super cute Baby Yoda with a Pop-Out Mouth and Cup! All you'll need are paper, scissors and something to draw and color with. Have fun!

Snack-tastic Chefs Week!

Who is ready for another week of art-making! I'm pretty stoked about this week as it is based on my favorite thing: snacks! And, despite the fact that I'm not such a great chef myself (have you even seen Season 3, Episode 3 of Nailed It!?), we are going to be BAKING COOKIES on Friday! Which is all kinds of funny as the judges spit out my cookie that I made on T.V. Let's just hope y'all don't do the same. 

So get read for another fun week and be sure and share this with friends and family so they can join the fun too. We'll kick things off with a Chef Selfie!

On Tuesday, I'll be sharing a lot of paper folding and paper sculpture techniques in this Hamburger Sculpture project. 

 On Wednesday, let's make a Salt Dough Pizza! 

On Thursday, I'll show you how to draw a 3-D cake! It's a piece of cake! 

And on Friday, we are gonna bake! I'm so excited about this!

To join me live, you can find me on my Instagram and my Facebook page. If you miss the LIVE session, no worries. You can catch the video the next day on my YouTube channel! Be sure and subscribe. I'll be sharing lessons there (in addition to these) all week for Mother's Day! 

See you real soon!

Art Class Happy Hour: Let's Draw Dwight from The Office!

I've been doing tons (and I do mean TONS) of art videos for kids right now and I kept feeling like something was missing...I decided it was MY art time. One of my favorite things to do is hosting a craft night. Since I can't do that in person right now, I decided to host a bit of a virtual one with this here adult draw along! I'm going to be kicking off this Art Class Happy Hour with a drawing of one of my favorite characters from The Office: Dwight! I hope you'll grab some paper, markers and crayons and draw along with me. If you do, I'd love to share there here on my blog! You can email a snap of your drawing to casseiart75@gmail.com.

Here we go:

Have fun!

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! 

Let's Make an Optical Illusion Heart!

Need a fun and easy project that would be perfect for Mother's Day? How about this Optical Illusion Heart? All you'll need are the following:

* Paper
* Markers
* Black Crayon
* Pencil
* Cup of Water
* Paintbrush
* Table salt

Let's go!

Have fun!

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: