Inspiration

I love it when students don’t realise they’re learning.  When they walk through the door in the few weeks before Christmas and say ‘Are we doing something fun?’ or ‘Can we do something Christmassy?’, I want to be able to say yes, safe in the knowledge that what I have planned still teaches my students […]

Frida Kahlo is a favourite with art teachers and art lovers alike.  This blog post features some of the best Frida Kahol gifts that you can find!  From calendars, crowns and cushion covers to posters, t-shirts and bags; this blog post has them all! First up is this Frida Kahlo calendar. If you follow the […]

It’s fun to have Halloween art lessons but I still want to deliver lessons that are full of creativity and teach new skills.  Dumbing down and colouring in certainly isn’t good enough.  All the resources below teach valuable skills but are ideal for this spooky time of year! ‘Halloween Pumpkins’ below is a great opportunity […]

Some earrings look like art teacher earrings to me!  This post is full of the artiest earrings available on the internet.  And when I say arty, I mean in-your-face obvious arty.  Wouldn’t these also make a great gift for an art teacher?  Fabulous. Art Supplies Earrings! We use art materials every day and sometimes they […]

I saw these humorous ‘art teacher scribble people’ on Instagram posted by art teacher Karen Nall.  She kindly said I could share these images with you and that these scribble people were not her idea.  She told me: “We read the book ‘I Am Not Just a Scribble‘ by Diane Alber. The students were then […]

Copyright for artists can be very confusing.  When I saw the images below on a Facebook group, I knew I had to contact the owner, Stephanie Longoria, to see if I could share them with The Arty Teacher community.  Luckily Stephanie was happy to share them stating that “I feel that it is important for […]