Hello everyone! So sorry I have not posted the past few months. Things have been very busy with the holidays and school starting back up. My art schedule this year is also very challenging so it's hard to keep up with EVERYTHING! Anyway, here are some projects my kiddos have done over the past few months.
Here are some kindergarten lessons. First they created small clay slabs. This is the first time they have gotten to work with clay, so it is very exciting! They each get a small ball of clay and smoosh it down into a "pancake". We then talk about texture and how you can feel the texture of different surfaces. So after they created their small pancake slabs, they used all different kinds of tools to create texture on their clay. After they were fired, they painted them with water colors.
While the kinders were waiting for their clay to dry and be fired, we worked on another texture project. We created turkeys in celebration of the upcoming holiday. We talked about how the texture on our clay could be felt but when you see texture and can't feel it, it's called implied texture. So they used texture plates to create the feathers! As you can see some students didn't quite get the gluing of the feathers, but to me it's okay and they are young learners :)
Here are some kindergarten lessons. First they created small clay slabs. This is the first time they have gotten to work with clay, so it is very exciting! They each get a small ball of clay and smoosh it down into a "pancake". We then talk about texture and how you can feel the texture of different surfaces. So after they created their small pancake slabs, they used all different kinds of tools to create texture on their clay. After they were fired, they painted them with water colors.
While the kinders were waiting for their clay to dry and be fired, we worked on another texture project. We created turkeys in celebration of the upcoming holiday. We talked about how the texture on our clay could be felt but when you see texture and can't feel it, it's called implied texture. So they used texture plates to create the feathers! As you can see some students didn't quite get the gluing of the feathers, but to me it's okay and they are young learners :)
Fifth grade students created these wonderful kaleidoscope cut images! We talked about the invention of kaleidoscopes and a local Iowa couple that crafts handmade kaleidoscopes (Peggy and Steve Kettelson of northeast Iowa). They started off with a 9x9 inch black paper for a background. The first color layer is a 7x7 inch square with the other layers of squares getting smaller (5x5 and 3x3 if I remember correctly). Each square the students did had to be folded up as if they were cutting paper snowflakes. So the largest paper was folded and cut and then glued down in the middle of the black background. The next largest paper was folded, cut, and glued on top of the first cut paper, and so on. The extra outside decorations are made from the two smallest square options (just cut into 4 parts and glued symmetrically around the outside).
The fifth grade also create Aurora Borealis night scenes! These turn out so beautifully! We looked at the Aurora Borealis and talked about the science behind why the colors show up in the northern skies at night. They created their own borealis with chalk pastels and then created a landscape silhouette over top with black tempera paint.
The fifth grade also create Aurora Borealis night scenes! These turn out so beautifully! We looked at the Aurora Borealis and talked about the science behind why the colors show up in the northern skies at night. They created their own borealis with chalk pastels and then created a landscape silhouette over top with black tempera paint.
More updates soon! I'm not done with posting projects yet so those will show up in the next few days!