Fourth Grade Chalk Prints

These will be the background to the students' lighthouse prints. It's chalk shaved with a scissor suspended in water.

Second grade shaving cream prints

We are going to use these as a background to an upcoming print project.

kindergarten shaving cream icecream

We used shaving cream mixed with glue and liquid watercolor for the ice cream. The best way to apply it is with fingers!

Second grade warm cool leaves

Second graders learned warm and cool colors. They drew maple leaves and filled in with warm colors for the foreground and cool for the background using watercolor.

4th grade lighthouse prints

Fourth grade students study North Carolina architecture, so we looked at our famous lighthouses. Students drew their lighthouse onto a Styrofoam plate with a pencil and stamped with ink and a brayer. The background is a sponge technique, a shell stamped with black ink, and seashells glued on!

Styrofoam plate:

Third grade printmaking

Third grade studied movement as a principle of design. Their goal was to draw a picture of something moving, with a background, and use it as the basis for their Styrofoam monoprint. We used black ink to print. The circles are marker caps stamped for extra practice in printing.

1st grade weaving

First Graders just finished a unit on color and organic shapes, so I combined the two with this cloud weaving, clouds being organic shapes. Students cut out the cloud by folding a 12x18" paper in half and using bumpy lines. I cut the slits into their clouds and students carefully wove the rainbow in, and secured it with glue! I had the students add some shaving cream mixed with glue to create the cloud texture.

Third grade recycled pugs

Cute lesson I found on the Fine Lines blog!

This fit in with our North Carolina standard for third grade, 'create art from recycled materials'. We watched a Sesame Street video I found on Youtube that shows the process of recycling newspaper. Then, I showed the students work by artist Denise Fiedler (as the blogger from Fine Lines did). We used paper mache glue and brushes for our adhesive. The third graders loved making their dogs!

Third grade art:

Fifth grade acetate pictures

Fifth graders looked at the artwork of Paul Klee and discussed his use of line and shape. Next they sketched out a design onto white paper and traced it onto clear acetate using black sharpie. They flipped their acetate over (or were supposed to anyway!) and colored the back with oil pastel. Any mess-ups were fixed by students scrubbing the pastel off with a sponge. Finally we stapled them onto black paper so the students could decorate their boarders. I had samples of line designs ready for students to use as a reference.

Fifth grade art:

first grade rockets

We studied the planets and chose different size circle tracers to make each planet. The students used pictures of the real planets as a reference and colored with oil pastel. The next week, we added the black paint background. The following class we looked at a youtube video of a rocket launch. We drew  our rockets onto small white pieces of paper, colored with crayon, cut and pasted them to our art. Finally, we dipped sticks into white paint to create stars! (my example was from a few years ago, we did the same basic steps but painted metallic paint over the plants to make them shiny. I just don't have any more metallic paint this year so we skipped it)

First grade work:

Andy Warhol Hands

So much fun! The first session we discussed Andy Warhol and viewed his work. Next we took a  12" square paper and folded it into quarters. We opened it up and traced our hands with pencil, then with neon crayons. I encouraged the students to vary the neon colors in each box.  The next session we discussed the black shading that was in Warhol's pictures. Students used a black crayon for the shading and outlined each hand in white oil pastel to keep the watercolor inside the lines. Then students painted each hand a different color. Next week we will paint the background and we will be finished!

Third grade works in progress:

Kindergarten Starry Nights

We used oil pastel on black paper.
Kindergarten work: