Here are a few of the Kindergarten lessons! Close to the beginning of the year, I had a sub who started a Where the Wild Things Are lesson. The kiddos drew their own monsters after reading the book and were asked to draw where their monsters lived, what they ate, and anything else they could think of. One monster likes to eat chap-stick, so see if you can catch that one!
One project I really enjoy doing with the kinders are texture plate turkeys to get into the fall season. We do this project right in the middle of our clay lesson because we discuss textures. With clay, the students roll a ball and then smoosh it down into a "pancake". Then they use different fun tools (old pieces of jewelry, texture tools, stamps, etc.) to create TEXTURE! While these are drying and getting fired, we work on our textured turkeys. We look at texture plates and the students learn how to place their paper over top and rub a crayon over them to make the texture show up on their plates (implied texture). We then cut out our turkeys and create the turkey bodies and assemble everything! Some kids got really creative! One turkey is wearing a tuxedo. Once the turkeys are done, so is their clay, which we paint with watercolors.
The final kinder project shown is the Snowmen at Night picture. We read this book during the winter time (when we are having loads of snow days!) and the kids get to come up with what they believe snowmen do at night. The one snow man with lots of green coming from him...that's his scarf flapping around and around as the snowman rolls down a hill...I mean, how funny and creative are these little ones?!
One project I really enjoy doing with the kinders are texture plate turkeys to get into the fall season. We do this project right in the middle of our clay lesson because we discuss textures. With clay, the students roll a ball and then smoosh it down into a "pancake". Then they use different fun tools (old pieces of jewelry, texture tools, stamps, etc.) to create TEXTURE! While these are drying and getting fired, we work on our textured turkeys. We look at texture plates and the students learn how to place their paper over top and rub a crayon over them to make the texture show up on their plates (implied texture). We then cut out our turkeys and create the turkey bodies and assemble everything! Some kids got really creative! One turkey is wearing a tuxedo. Once the turkeys are done, so is their clay, which we paint with watercolors.
The final kinder project shown is the Snowmen at Night picture. We read this book during the winter time (when we are having loads of snow days!) and the kids get to come up with what they believe snowmen do at night. The one snow man with lots of green coming from him...that's his scarf flapping around and around as the snowman rolls down a hill...I mean, how funny and creative are these little ones?!
Here are some other projects created this year by other grades at the elementary.
Second grade: Who is Mona Lisa? (easy/quick end of year), pinch pots with watercolor, and Paul Klee inspired self-portraits with tissue paper.
Dale Chihuly: As a 2-4th grade project, students looked at the blown glass works of Dale Chihuly! We watched videos of him creating is art and then set out to create a collaborative work of art based on his ideas. We used plastic bottles, tissue paper, and mod podge to create this Chihuly inspired "tree" which was set up for the holiday concert. Let's say this project was quite messy. We had bottles hanging to dry in different areas of the room for a few weeks, so it was kind of crazy! But I would love to do this again because originally we were going to make small chandeliers for the classroom. Then I was asked if the students would be able to make something for the holiday concert, so we switched gears a little. I think this year I'd like to focus on small chandelier-like sculptures that we can hang up and enjoy!
Other lessons shown are: symmetrical snowflakes (2nd), abstract cardboard sculptures (1st), clay slab fish (4th), pinch pot dragons (3rd), and clay fish (1st).
Second grade: Who is Mona Lisa? (easy/quick end of year), pinch pots with watercolor, and Paul Klee inspired self-portraits with tissue paper.
Dale Chihuly: As a 2-4th grade project, students looked at the blown glass works of Dale Chihuly! We watched videos of him creating is art and then set out to create a collaborative work of art based on his ideas. We used plastic bottles, tissue paper, and mod podge to create this Chihuly inspired "tree" which was set up for the holiday concert. Let's say this project was quite messy. We had bottles hanging to dry in different areas of the room for a few weeks, so it was kind of crazy! But I would love to do this again because originally we were going to make small chandeliers for the classroom. Then I was asked if the students would be able to make something for the holiday concert, so we switched gears a little. I think this year I'd like to focus on small chandelier-like sculptures that we can hang up and enjoy!
Other lessons shown are: symmetrical snowflakes (2nd), abstract cardboard sculptures (1st), clay slab fish (4th), pinch pot dragons (3rd), and clay fish (1st).
Here are some pictures of high school art projects as well as an art show that we put on at a local library. We FILLED that space!!!
Some projects will definitely show up again on the blog throughout the year because they are successful and the kids like them! I have already had a request to do the Monumental Sculpture project (the giant cell phone, juice box, pencil, energy drink) because the kids liked it so much. I'll be happy to put real descriptions and how the project goes along with those new pictures. BUT I really wanted to show the hard work my kids did last year.
Great projects are started, so new posts will be coming your way!
Great projects are started, so new posts will be coming your way!