5th grade close up pumpkins

This is a take on an artwork I found here. Students used red, orange, yellow, and brown oil pastel to create analogous colors to blend for highlighting their pumpkin! Students loved blending and each student had their own interpretation of the piece!

5th Grade Tints

Students learned to mix tints of blues and violets. First, students painted a circle for the moon. Next, students used combinations of white, blue, and violet to create the sky. Students then switched to a smaller brush to paint the trees with black. All paint was liquid tempera.

5th grade Assemblage Art

These pieces were modeled after Assemblage Art. Students used macaroni, beans, wood, and ribbons to create a relief sculpture on a poster board. Then we spray painted (outside!) the art to make each one all one color. Disposable gloves help protect hands from spray paint!

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:

Radial designs painted

Students painted with watercolor. So pretty!

5th grade Radial Designs

Students started in the center of a square paper and made the same design in the shape of a plus sign. They then built outward adding detail and being careful to rotate the paper as they went to keep the symmetry. Next week students will use plastic wrap and water color to color the background.

Fifth grade work in progress:

SweetArts Show

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

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:

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

Art Club

We made these handmade papers in Art Club this morning, using recycled paper and flowers!
We used a paper making kit from a company called Paper Alice. I really can't say enough lovely things about her and her company. Her supplies work really well and they are affordable and durable.

The children blended their paper in a blender, added decorations and poured the mixture into a mold. Then we used a sponge to soak up the water from the paper. To dry and flatten the paper, we ironed it. Next week we will bind them into a sketch book!

fourth and fifth grade paper:

fifth grade guitars

We looked at Picasso's guitar paintings. Students created some painted paper using heavy poster board. Next they cut out their guitar body, added details and strung them up!


Fifth grade work:

liquid watercolor + spray bottle = amazingly fun splatter art!!!

I bought these spray bottles from the dollar store. We will be using them today in the fourth grade paper weaving projects, but I'm sure I'll find a bunch more uses for them!

rubberband brushes

I made twenty four of these cool rubber band brushes over the weekend. It was an inexpensive project, you can find directions here.

They make awesome texture and they are pretty durable. I remember using a rubber band brush as a child in art class!

A lot of art teachers create sketch book for their students. I'll probably be using something similar with my art club members. I found some simple book binding steps online!

Courtesy of Barbara's Thought of the Day

Seasonal craft videos

I found some Youtube videos about cute halloween/thanksgiving/harvest crafts. They seem pretty ideal for 4th and 5th graders.

3D pumpkin link

layered pumpkin link

Fifth grade lighthouses

Fifth grade students studied form, and then created these lighthouses. We practiced shading with our pencil, and highlighting the black paper with a white crayon. Students cut their lighthouses out with a black paper behind it so they had a black silhoutte the same size as the lighthouse. Then they drew their design on the black paper and cut it and pasted it on the lighthouse, and then added the highlight with the white crayon.

For the painting, we divided our paper into the sky, water, and sand. We did a wet on wet watercolor technique for the sky, wet on dry with horizontal stroke for the water, and splatter painted the sand. We drew an ellipse to be used as the We taped off the edge to give a little border.

Fifth grade work: