Christmas Time!

Middle School Gingerbread Houses...

Pretty cute one day reindeer puppets with first grade.

First time working with liquid glue... dot dot not a lot!

Thanksgiving!

Kindergarten and First graders drew a picture of their favorite Thanksgiving food and I had them describe to me step by step how they would make the food. Some of them were hilarious! (Found this lesson here)

This was a really fun project (found here) I did with Kindergarten-Second grade. They all loved it! I read the following Thanksgiving story to them and as we got to each color, I gave them a bead to add to their bracelet or necklace.

With this bracelet you will know,

The first Thanksgiving that was long, long ago.

The Pilgrims set sail from far away

On the Mayflower with tall white sails.

They sailed many days across the ocean blue.

The seas were rough, but the ship came through.

At last they spotted land so green. 

They were so happy they cheered and screamed.

The first year was so difficult and black.

Many died and wished that they could go back.

But the Native Americans gave them a hand

And helped them survive in the strange new land.

They decided to celebrate in a special way

And that became the first Thanksgiving Day.

They prepared a feast with turkeys brown

And red cranberries that they had found.

Yellow corn that they had learned to grow

And orange pumpkin pies, don’t you know!

But before they ate the turkey and dressing,

They all held hands for a thankful blessing.

Turkey Drawings!

And these cute "geometric feather" turkeys!

Painted Paper!

Day 1: Coloring mixing lesson. I put a small amount of blue and yellow paint on each students paper. Students mixed colors directly on paper to see how the colors mix and change to make green!

(Before students came in for Day 2, I precut their painted paper into a loom for weaving.)

Day 2: Students used green strips of paper to weave into their looms. This was a new concept for first and second graders so it took the entire class time to complete.

Day 3: Students cut out and glued pieces to complete their alligators! Some had time to add some texture to the tail along with additional details.

Kindergarten started the following lesson the same way, by mixing colors on their paper to make a new color! I showed them some of Eric Carle's work and we continued the lesson by making the Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

(Before Day 2, I traced 6 large circles on the back of their painted paper for them to cut out).

El Dia De Los Muertos

Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grade designed symmetric sugar skulls on paper:

Third graders decorated paper plate sugar skull masks:

Lots of Halloween Art!

First and second grade spiders and webs:

Kindergarten bats!:

In this multi step lesson, third graders drew pumpkins using space, perspective, and shading. Next they created a background inspired by Starry Night using oil pastels:

A few first grade drawings of Splat the Cat:

Second grade Frankensteins: