3rd Grade Beautiful Bugs

These looked kind of cute but creepy! They are made from two ceramic pinch pots with holes pierced through them to insert the antennae and legs. Students painted with watercolor and acrylic paint.

second and third grade portraits

Students used the camera feature in mac books and iPads to help them draw self portraits.

Third grade pencil drawings!

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.

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:

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:

Third grade falling pictures completed!

I love their backgrounds! Two children decided to put their pictures side by side to draw one big background. Another student decided that his character was falling into steaks. "The food, not wooden spikes", he patiently explained to me and the other students.

Third grade art:

 (The steaks)

3rd grade falling portraits

We used an 18 x 24" sheet of paper to trace our hands and shoes. Next we added a head and body and colored. Next week we will add backgrounds. I'm so excited to see what the students come up with, already they are talking about drawing trampolines and people bungie jumping and floating in outer space! So fun.

Third grade work in progress:

Third grade castles

Students created a background for their castles and glued on a folded castle to give it a 3D look.

Third grade work

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:

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: