Website Find!

I discovered this fantastic website and wanted to share it with you.  It's called Art for Kids Hub.  It's run by a man named Rob who is an professional artist himself, and in addition to walking your students through easy step by step how-to-draw directions, he always draws with either his son or daughter or both so the kids can see that YES they can draw these steps too. 

This website can be a valuable resource for many reasons:

1. For those of you looking for a great set of drawing lessons for a class that might be ahead of others in their grade and need something to do while the others catch up.
2. To leave for a substitute instead of having to write full plans.
3. To use as a computer center for kids who finish projects early.  
4. For those weird half days when you might see a class for only part of the normal class time and there's just not enough time to resume work on the regular project.
5. For those days when it's before a holiday vacation and the kids are just bouncing off the walls and you need a way to get them to focus.

Each video is only about ten minutes long.  I have found that in a normal class time we can get to about three videos.  I love these because the directions are clear, the teacher jokes around with his kids so my students view it as fun, and because the videos do move along at a good pace - the class HAS to be quiet to follow the directions.  I could not believe how well they focused.  

Here's a few examples from back in December on the day before the holiday break.  We followed his "How to Draw the Grinch" steps.