Third grade murals

Third graders are studying Diego Rivera and his famous murals. We created these creatures using templates purchased from Deep Space Sparkle's website for five dollars. Students painted their paper, then cut out their critters. The students collaborated on a giant mural!
Seahorses:

Butterflies

Next students painted giant paper using analogous colors. I challenged myself to find supplies to apply paint that weren't brushes. The dollar store had some inexpensive fun items: 

Third grade murals:

3rd grade scratch art

This lesson was inspired by a lesson I saw at Use Your Coloured Pencils

Students colored a heavy stock paper, 80lb, with crayon, and painted the whole paper with black tempera paint. Students used closed scissors to draw their whale and sea critters! Depending on how hard they colored, some of them were more difficult to scratch. I set out oil pastel for them to draw with if they were having a hard time scratching.

Third grade art:

First grade mountain lions

First graders drew these cute mountain lions. The following lesson we drew a jungle and cut the leaves so our animals can hide behind them!

First grade art:

SweetArts Show

One of my students, who is an outstanding cartoon artist, featured in a local art show!

third grade snowflakes

We made paper snowflakes. We added hooks from the craft store and lots of sequins!  I strung up some yarn across the classroom to hang them to dry.

Third grade snowflakes:

kindergarten portraits

Kindergarten students have been busy studying portraiture in the art room. As a warm up, Kinders took turns 'modeling' for each other while other Kinders drew their portraits!

Students then chose paper that looked like their skin color (or looked not all all like their skin color, whatever they preferred). Students drew their faces and colored their hair.
Students then drew their shirt using AB patterns.

Kindergarten art:

fourth grade African masks

This lesson was inspired by a colleague at Harrisberg Elementary School in Cabarrus County.

We studied some African masks from the Fang Tribe to learn about how these masks were made and how they were used.

Students used construction paper to cut out the features. We cut slits in the masks to make them round. Students used shredded construction paper for the hair!

Fourth grade work:

Fifth grade pop art giraffes

We drew these giraffes using worksheets I purchased from Deep Space Sparkle.

Students added animal print borders that they drew with permanent marker to add more colors and pattern!

Fifth grade work:

Kindergarten Fishbowls

We looked at pictures of aquariums to draw our fish bowls. We added rocks, plants, and fish. After we colored, we used liquid watercolor paint to paint our water blue.

Fifth Grade Snowy Mountains

Students dyed white paper by scattering tissue paper squares and painting over them with water. The following week, students peeled off the tissue paper to reveal the newly dyed paper beneath! We used this for our sky.

Students used crayon resist to create the snow on the watercolor mountains. Blue watercolor was used for shadows, and large black permanent marker for the trees.

Fifth grade art

Symmetrical Aliens

The students loved making and coloring their aliens! We just folded a green paper in half and drew half an alien and when we cut and opened our paper, it made a whole alien : )

First grade work:

Fourth grade woven mats

This lesson was inspired by Mrs. Richardson's lesson at her Why Walk When you Can Fly? blog. Students wove their black and white mats. Next we learned how to make letters 3D. Students created their 3D names and pasted them on their mats. Students sprayed their pictures with watercolor in spray bottles!

Fourth grade art: