Fourth Grade Fossils
During one art class fourth grade artists reviewed the different types of fossils. They then chose to create either a mold fossil or a cast fossil using plastic insects, shells, and other items from nature.
2nd Grade Collagraph Winter Prints
2nd grade artists have started to learn more about printmaking in the art room! They created a collagraph that showed a winter scene and printed many copies in cool colors and white. Then they chose a few of their prints that they thought were most successful and glued them together to show repetition. With …
Fourth Grade Masks
Fourth grade artists looked at masks from many different cultures. They looked at the different styles of masks and learned about the different reasons for wearing masks. Then they each created their own mask! They first had to create their own form to build the mask on out of newspaper and cardboard. Then they were …
Third Grade Busy Cities
Third grade artists looked at the paintings of James Rizzi for inspiration for this art project. They each drew their own cityscapes with overlapping buildings and practiced changing the parts of the face to show different emotions on their buildings.
First Grade SnowPeople
First grade artists read the book “Snowmen at Night” and drew their own snowmen and snowwomen doing an activity like in the story. Then they painted their snowpeople to show a shadow on one side (to help it look more 3D). They cut and glued their snowpeople to a snowy painted background.
The Shape of Young 5’s Hearts
Young 5 artists read the book “The Shape of My Heart” and noticed how all of the drawings were made out of the shapes we have been learning about! They each drew their own heart shape and filled it with drawings of things or people that they love using shapes and lines to make their …
Kindergarten Mice Paint
Kindergarten and young 5 artists read the book “Mouse Paint” and created their own mice drawing. They used the primary colors and mixed them on their paper like the mice in the story did!
Third Grade Coil Creations
Third grade artists have been learning about how to create art with coils of clay! They each created their own bowl, cup, or sculpture using a variety of coil designs. After their creations had been fired in the kiln they each added glaze for color and decoration.
Kindergarten Mixing Colors
Kindergarten and young 5 artists have been mixing the primary colors in their artwork! They began by experimenting with a special guest to see what would happen when the primary colors were mixed together- they mixed colors with oil pastels, paint, and clay! One class created a Jasper Johns inspired number or letter painting using …
Kindergarten Shape Robots
Kindergarten artists have been making artwork using shapes! They cut and glued many shapes together to create a robot collage.