dragonflies

www.artprojectsforkids.com for instructions

Trucks

Fruit

I saw this lesson on the Deep Space Sparkle website and decided to try it.

Students divide up a white paper into sections and paint them with tempera. They are encouraged to paint the paper colors of a fruit.

The next class, students make a basket out of brown paper using a basket style line design.They draw their fruit on their painted paper. Next they cut everything out and assemble with glue on black paper

Second grade results:

Dancing Giraffes

This is a fun lesson I saw several years ago on www.deepspacesparkle.com

First we read "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andre. I put the book under the document camera as I read so the children can see it on the Smart Board.

Next we draw Gerald the Giraffe on yellow paper with a brown crayon and color his spots in orange.

The next class, we paint the background. I don't prefer to use liquid tempera paint because it's difficult to clean off of palettes and brushes, and you have to change the water constantly, but I make an exception for this project because the effects are so neat. We use white, yellow, and blue paint. I have the children work in a specific order so that they will need to clean their brushes minimally while working.

We start by drawing a horizon line with a crayon. We then draw a circle in the sky for the moon and paint it white. The bottom half of the paper gets painted yellow. (clean brushes at this point).

Next we paint the rest of the sky blue. Clean brushes. Dip brush in white paint and spiral out from the moon without adding new paint. The moon will appear to glow!

Next we mix the yellow and blue paint together to make green. No need to clean brushes! We paint the grass green (it was yellow before) and we use the back of the brush to draw blades of grass. The blades will look yellow!

The last session we cut and glue Gerald to the background.

Kindergarten work:

Cute Frogs

I had purchased this lesson as a PDF file from Deep Space Sparkle, so I won't go into the step by step drawing process. Basically we drew the frog with black crayon and then discussed realistic colors a frog could be. We added the fly next.I asked the children to paint everything but the eyes. We painted with dry tempera cakes.

The next class we traced over all of our lines, one by one, with a black oil pastel and then touched up our paintings.

First grade art:

dream catchers

The third graders at Royal Oaks are studying Native Americans for their Multicultural Night and asked me to do a dream catcher lesson.

We purchased some sturdy wire cut in 18" strips and black electrical tape to assemble the hoops. Each child bent their own hoop and I helped fasten the tape on.

Next I distributed 5 pipe cleaners to each child. We attached one end to the hoop and strung on some beads. Next we attached the middle of the pipe cleaner to another end of the hoop and strung on more beads. The pipe cleaner was bent in a "V" and attached at the end. We repeated this step for three pipe cleaners.

(Dream catcher with 2 pipe cleaners attached)

Next we bent the other two pipe cleaners and added beads to the end.

We attached feathers to the end of the pipe cleaners

The feathered pipe cleaners were attached to the hoop to create the part of the dream catcher that hangs down.

Funky Frogs

I got this lesson from Mrs. Brown's Art Page.

We just finished learning about organic and geometric shapes in second grade, as well as opposites, zig zags, wavy lines, curved, lines, and other design concepts. This project has all of those things so it's a great review.

Second grade projects: