1st Grade Paper Weaving

1st graders got their first weaving lesson and wow look at the colorful results!  I was very impressed, this can be a hard lesson for young students, but this year's group did a fantastic job!

Paint Monsters!!!

1st Graders have been going monster crazy! First the wild things came to visit, now we're being attacked by paint monsters! Students used watered-down tempera paint to choose their monster colors, and we used straws to blow the colors across the paper instead of a brush! Each piece is unique, and the addition of construction paper collage pieces adds personality! I hope you enjoy them as much as the kids loved making them!

Miro Men (and women!)

I look forward to this project every year.  Our students looked at the art of Joan Miro and we began looking into how abstract art works.  Students studied several of Miro's pictures, then designed their own Miro-like person.

Viva Valentine!

These last few classes, we have been celebrating Valentine's Day through our art and music!  Many grades learned some new Valentine songs and we incorporated some art vocabulary review into our Valentine projects!  Here are a few from each grade

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First Graders learned about warm colors and used them for the sky, they used cool colors to color in the hand.  We added a little glitter around the heart for some sparkle!

Second grade made Valentine trees that we painted with black paint, then worked on cutting out small colorful hearts for leaves, and mounted them on a Valentine-colored paper.

The third graders worked on positive and negative space hearts.  We used two colors (white and red) of paper and made the hearts on one side show positive space and on the back show negative space.  When you flipped over the heart, you saw the opposite colors on the other side!  I know it sounds complicated, but it really wasn't too bad.

The forth grade learned about an old style of art called quilling.  It's been around for hundreds of years, but historically, only the rich could do it because colored paper was so expensive!  Now we can easily do the art of paper rolling, and the kids were so creative with their cards!

 Fifth grade used watercolor pencils to make a tie-dye effect on their pictures.  Watercolor pencils are AMAZING because it's watercolor paint all closed up cleanly inside of a colored pencil.  Just color, add water, and you have a painting with very little mess!

 I am so proud of all of our students on their projects.  What a cool way to celebrate Valentine's Day!