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Christmas time is here...

Students grades K-6 have been busy making ornaments to decorate the tree in the hallway. Kindergarten and First Grade made the reindeer, Second Grade made the round ornaments, Third Grade made the snowmen, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade made the 3D stars. It turned out beautifully colorful!

The snowmen took a lot of prep work, painting the popsicle sticks white, cutting out felt scarves, hats and noses. The students enjoyed this crafty day though and they turned out great! Details drawn on by students using sharpie, along with hat, nose and scarf placement.

Kindergarten and First grade reindeer made with model magic! The first day I let the students play with a small ball of model magic, making any shapes they liked (none of them have ever seen it before.. most of them thought it was marshmallows:)). At the end of class, they rolled it into a ball, flattened it and put their fingerprint in the middle. While it was still wet, I made the hole using a straw. Day two, they drew the antlers using sharpie, painted the brown and used a toothpick to make two dots for eyes. I added the pupils(sharpie) and puffy paint, red nose once dry. So cute!

Op Art

Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth grade has been learning about complementary colors and why they POP! Starting with a square paper, they folded it four ways. Next they traced each fold with a pencil. Then they drew curved lines away from and towards the center, switching every section.
I gave them the option of using one set of complementary colors. From there, they could color their design alternating crayons, markers and colored pencil (their choice). Some students shaded the edges of their shapes to show more dimension.

Thanksgiving turkey's!

With a two day week Kindergarten-3rd grade drew turkeys with step by step instruction and lots of freedom with color. Day two they finished coloring and added a little feather to their turkey's head.

Turtle Color Wheels

Second grade reviewing primary and secondary colors:

Halloween

First grade cut out this skeleton, practiced bone placement and chose an action word to create a sentence about their bones:

Fourth grade indian corn still life:

Fourth grade pumpkins. Showing perspective, space, and overlapping:

6th grade haunted houses. Drawn with sharpie, creating a silhouette. Color was created by laying tissue paper over drawings and spraying with water.

Paper Weaving

Colorful paper weavings! Great review for third grade on patterns and weaving.

Piet Mondrian Spiders

 

Spider web: Start with a dot in the middle of drawing paper. Draw lines to every edge of the paper. Add curved lines in between each section. 

Color: Like Piet Mondrian, second graders used primary colors to fill the web using any pattern they like. 

Spider: Using a small piece of black paper, cut out two circles for the spider, then add legs and googly eyes. 

Texture Pumpkins

After a step-by-step drawing tutorial for the pumpkin, first graders filled each section with different textures. They all turned out so cute and unique ^_^

Overview of Halloween Projects for the week:

It's the Great Pumpkin!

A hallway display for fall! One of my small 4th grade classes made the pumpkin weavings during one 30 minute session. 

Bloom Where You Are Planted

A colorful, inspirational display to brighten the hallway. 

Flowers drawn by kindergarden and second grade.

First Grade Piet Mondrian

This is one of my favorite projects to do with first grade! Even though they are given limited shapes and colors, every student comes up with a unique and interesting design.

 

First I gave the first grade a brief history on the Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian. He painted realistic landscapes until eventually he started realizing that the trees and buildings could all be made using basic geometric shapes. Every color could be made using the primaries: red, yellow, and blue. His work became very abstract and simplified. Mondrian was also greatly influenced by the streets and lights of NYC and inspired by jazz music.

As the students are working, I have them listen to jazz music to let them see if it effects their artwork.

Each student gets a large piece of white paper, precut black strips of paper (these can only be used vertically and horizontally, not diagonal). For my class I precut some large yellow, red, and blue squares and rectangles (allowing them to cut the pieces smaller if they want).

As the students are finishing their piece, I let them choose one square to add glitter too (to mimic the sparkle of city lights). I have them paint that square with glue, and I sprinkle the glitter on for them.

They look great hanging all together! I am always as pleased as they are with the results.

Ohio Visual Arts Standards:

1PR Demonstrate beginning skill and craftsmanship in the use of art materials and tools.
6PR Engage in artmaking to produce a work that combines music, movement or dramatic play with visual art.