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Art Room Necessities For Elementary Level Kids
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items I have created this list of all my favorite must haves for an art room to run smoothly with the help of students. Honestly many of the organization tips could be applied in any type of classroom.
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Art Room Organization and Essentials
Painting Must Haves
Clay Essentials
Drawing Materials
Art Room Organization and Essentials
This list is of items I use in my art room everyday and has helped create strong classroom routines and procedures that my students can do independently!
I love this pencil sharpener for my classroom!
X-Acto : Pencils
I use these chip and dip tray to organize and hand out my oil pastels.
Set of 4 Black Duck Chip N Dip 7-Section Trays
I have had many types of scissors over the years but I find these are the easiest for my students to use while cutting the paper nicely.
Fiskars 5" Pointed-Tip Scissors for Kids 4-7
Use these as water cups for when students are painting! They clean up nicely and my students can help during our clean up procedures without any trouble.
KALAS Tumbler - mixed colors
These bowls are great when I need to sort and hand out small art materials to students, such as beads! They help keep materials together and can always been used as water bowls for painting or plaster projects.
KALAS Bowl - mixed colors
These plates are amazing for different painting needs such as painting palettes! I love how easily they clean up and can be reused over and over.
KALAS Plate, mixed colors - IKEA
These bins are great for marker baskets. They are easy for my students to carry to their table and keep the markers together.
Two-Toned Plastic Slotted Baskets with Handles, 11x8x4.125 in.
This drying rack has been a game changer in my art room because it holds so much artwork and my students can easily use it on their own!
AWT Portable Drying Rack - 20" x 26", 50 Shelves
Painting Must Haves
Ice cube trays can be used to create paint palettes when my students need many different colors at a time for a project. It helps reduce the waste of paint so much! They are perfect for glaze palettes when students are painting their ceramic projects...
The Home Store Stacking Ice Cube Trays, 2-ct. Packs
Use muffin tins as paint trays for tempera paint. I use silicone muffin inserts to hold the paint.
Cooking Concepts 6-Cup Tin Muffin Pans
I love using silicone muffin cups to hold different colors of paint in a muffin pan. I love that they are reusable and easy to clean.
Silicone Muffin Cups
Ever since I changed to this brand of paint brushes the quality in the paintings my students create has tremendously improved.
ROYAL BRUSH CLASSROOM SETS
Trying to use gallon size tempera paint in the classroom can be challenging. I use these condiment bottles for my tempera paint. I make one condiment bottle for each of my tempera paint colors and then I can easily hand out paint in my classroom or p...
Cooking Concepts Clear Condiment Bottles, 2-ct. Packs
Great tempera cakes to use for elementary grade levels!
Tempera Cakes
Clay Essentials
I love Mayco Stroke & Coat glaze.
Mayco Stroke & Coat Wonderglaze Kit - Bottle, 16 oz, Wonderglaze Kit 1
I love these assorted glaze kits!
Mayco Stroke & Coat Wonderglaze Kit - Bottle, 16 oz, Wonderglaze Kit 3
My favorite assorted glaze kits!
Mayco Stroke & Coat Wonderglaze Kit - Bottle, 16 oz, Wonderglaze Kit 2
Drawing Materials
These are my favorite brand of oil pastels for the art room! I have tried other brands in the past but I love the Crayola oil pastels.
Crayola Oil Pastels Classpack, 12 Colors