Patty Palmer: Art Teacher and expert in teaching art to kids.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Patti Palmer turns art-room experience into specific guidance on classroom routines, student relationships, communication, and sustaining a teacher's creative energy.
Art Made Easy treats children's art instruction as a teaching practice shaped by relationships, routines, and the teacher's own creative life.
Painted paper on day one becomes your classroom-management rehearsal, minus the rules lecture.
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A practical back-to-school art roadmap that folds routine into the lesson itself.
Patti Palmer opens Episode 63 of Art Made Easy by treating back-to-school planning as a plain, workable job, especially in early August. She folds the classroom routine into the lesson itself: painted paper for kindergartners, then watercolor-and-pen flowers for older students,…
A practical look at making the last minutes of art class calmer.
Cleanup is where art class can wobble, and Patti Palmer treats it like part of the lesson, not an afterthought. She walks through how different teachers close out class, with a clear lean toward repetition, steady expectations, and a clock that actually matters.
A steady summer reset for art teachers who want rest, focus, and a cleaner break from constant availability.
Art Made Easy treats summer break as something more practical than inspirational: a stretch of time teachers need to use without turning it into another assignment.
A warm case for boredom, board games, and the imagination hiding in a house.
Art Made Easy treats the early March 16, 2020 shutdown as a prompt to rethink what home can offer children. It moves through boredom, room to roam, and the ordinary things already in the house, which open into art, forts, closet towns, and long games of Monopoly.
Clear expectations make the art room easier to run and easier to explain.
It stays with the plain work of explaining an art program to parents, teachers, and administrators: what it is, what it is not, and why the boundaries matter.
A practical routine for helping students finish more work and giving the art show better choices.
Patti Palmer makes a practical case for scheduling makeup art days, starting from a familiar art-room problem: long, multi-session projects can leave some students behind and leave work unfinished.
A practical reminder for art teachers that getting to know students is central to connecting with them.
Patti Palmer presents the episode as a candid reset, tying a recent personal awakening to the everyday challenge of reaching students who are harder to connect with.
A practical, relationship-first conversation about teaching art across language barriers.
Teaching art to students with limited English is treated here less as a language problem than as a question of how to keep children engaged without sanding off their curiosity.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Asian Efficiency's Tan Pham and Brooks Duncan on time management, habits, and AI tools.
A call-in helpline where listener questions turn into reported science and history investigations.
Back to school is already on Patti Palmer's brain.
It's cleanup time, and the clock is ticking.
Summer is short, or is it long enough?
March 16th, 2020, starts with the practical stuff.
She opens with a problem most art teachers know well.
Patti Palmer makes the case for makeup art days.
Patti Palmer opens with a confession about a recent shift that has changed how she thinks about showing up as her authentic self.
Host Patti Palmer introduces a new season of Art Made Easy, sharing her word of the year and discussing how to set intentions for a happy year.
Host Patti Palmer interviews Kristen Damsetter about centering practices to help teachers manage stress and anxiety.
Host Patti Palmer interviews a featured art teacher from the Sparklers community, sharing strategies and insights for teaching art to children.
Patti Palmer returns after a six-week break.
Host Patti Palmer interviews Krista Hillman, a former English teacher turned art teacher, about coordinating school-wide art auctions and transitioning to teaching art.
Patti Palmer introduces a first-ever interview with working artist Nicholas Wilton.
The host discusses setting up an art space at home and preparing for art sessions with kids, based on her book.