Kindergarten Self Portraits

I found this lesson at this youtube post. The students loved them!

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:

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:

second grade pencils

Students used construction paper to create their giant pencils. We practiced gluing, as well as different types of lines. The students then colored their pencils with crayon.

Second graders:

1st grade snake puppets

First graders looked at the patterns on photos of different species of snakes.  We then drew our spiral and used broken lines, zig zags, wavy lines, curly lines, thick and thin lines to add line pattern. Students painted their snakes with watercolor.

The following week, students cut out their spirals and glued on popsicle sticks to hold their puppets. They colored the stick near the mouth red to look like a long tongue.

First grade work:

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:

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: