Fifth Grade Weaving
Fifth grade artists have been weaving in the art room! They learned about the parts of a weaving, what a loom is, how to weave fringe, how to weave shapes, and everyone created their own unique woven tapestry!
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Fifth Grade Clay Creations
Fifth grade artists were each able to create a vessle out of clay in the art room! They learned about different clay methods like coil building, slabs, and slipping and scoring. They had to use a combination of all three of these techniques to create a vessel that could hold something else. Once their …
Fifth Grade Value Scale Still Life
Fifth grade artists have been learning about VALUE, the lightness or darkness of a color, in the art room. Each artist completed an exercise to show different values of a color and to show value on an object to make it look more 3D. They mixed white with a color to make tints and black …
Other World Fair Day Projects
Each class is studying a different country for our school’s World Fair Day. In the art room, students created a project that showed something about the country their class was studying. Some classes looked at the landscapes of their country, others looked at the architecture, the artwork, traditions, products from their country, or famous landmarks. …
Our Positive and Negative Space Mural
Every student in grades 1st-5th created two squares to add to our school mural that is hanging outside of the art room! We talked about positive and negative space and created two squares that were “opposites” and had the colors of the positive and negative spaces switch.
Fifth Grade American Gothic Parodies
Fifth grade artists created their own parody of the painting “American Gothic” by Grant Wood. After learning more about the painting “American Gothic” and what a parody is, each artist used their own ideas to create a new painting that resembled the original painting but changed certain elements to add humor.
Fifth Grade Notan Designs
Fifth grade artists created these square Notan artworks! We learned about positive and negative space in artwork and how some Notan artworks have the positive and negative space complete each other. Each artist started with a square and cut designs from each side, they saved their pieces and glued them in reverse outside of the …
Fifth Grade Paper Pop-Up Sculptures
Fifth grade artists created these paper pop-up sculptures during one art class. They had the challenge of creating a 3-D piece of artwork using only one piece of paper, folding, and cutting, but not losing any paper!
Fifth Grade Mixed Media Collage
Fifth grade artists looked at the collage artworks of Romare Bearden in art class. We looked at how elements of jazz music could be seen in a visual way in his artwork of musicians. Each artist created their own mixed media collage that showed an experience from their life. They changed or exaggerated certain features …
Fifth Grade Low-Relief Sculptures
Fifth grade artists have been learning about BALANCE in the art room! We learned about symmetrical and asymmetrical balance and learned about how different shapes, sizes, colors, and patterns can have a different visual weights. Our goal was to balance this visual weight using one type of balance. We looked at the artist Camille Walala …