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If I had tried to write this post two weeks ago, I wouldn’t have had it in me. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I was in it—running dried art projects to classrooms before the kids left, scraping paper mache clay from surfaces I didn’t know could get sticky, fielding behavior issues I…
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When I started this blog, I told myself it would be a space for reflection, honesty, and creativity—a place to document and untangle the experience of teaching art to elementary students through the lens of personal growth. But after a few weeks of intense classroom challenges, the lessons were coming in faster than I could…
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Teaching elementary art is like stepping into a hurricane of glitter (metaphorical, their real teacher will murder me if she finds glitter in the room), emotions, and questionable decision-making. At this age (10–11, give or take a tantrum), kids are simultaneously asserting independence and forgetting how to use a glue stick properly. They push boundaries,…