First grade artists have been learning a song in music class from Japan about kites and they created their own kite in art class! We started by looking at different kites throughout history. Kites come in all different shapes and sizes and some have different functions or purposes. Each artist created a sketch for their …

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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.  

First grade artists learned how to weave in the art room! We looked at banig mats that are hand woven in the Philipeans and we noticed many patterns in the designs. Each artist created their own pattern with colors to make the warp lines of their weaving.  Then they painted a paper, cut it up, …

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First grade artists each drew one of their heroes in art class! After talking about what it means to be a hero, each artist chose someone to draw with black marker.   Then they used a printmaking technique with foil to add color to the background.

First grade artists mixed each of the secondary colors using primary colored paint.  They used tools to add texture marks into their paint, too. Then they cut shapes for grass and pumpkins and created a pumpkin collage!

On the third day of art class first grade artists reviewed the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. We looked at some of the paintings of Pete Mondrian and saw how he used the primary colors (and black and white) to create many different masterpieces. They each created their own primary color master pieces by …

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On the second day of art class, first grade artists reviewed some of the shapes and lines they had learned last year in the art room. They each created their own rocket ship using lines and shapes and added planets, stars, and other things you may see in outer space around their rocket ship.