Kindergarten Lions

Kindergarten artists have been creating works of art by using all of the shapes we have learned! We can draw anything if we first look to see what shapes it is made out of. For this project, students looked at lions from Africa, because they are learning a song from Africa in music class. We started …

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Kindergarten Mondrian Spider Webs

Kindergarten artists read a story about the Itsy Bitsy Spider and created a spider web using horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines. Then students looked at the artwork of Piet Mondrian and learned about the primary colors.   The primary colors were used to color the shapes created between the spider web lines. Some students added …

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Kindergarten Lines

Kindergarten artists have finished their unit on line and can now make many types of lines with many different materials. We started by creating lines with our arms and imagined they were snakes! We drew lines with crayons and pencils. We created line SCULPTURES with paper and glue.  Our sculptures are not flat and can …

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Happy International Dot Day!

International Dot Day (a celebration of Peter Reynolds’ book “The Dot”) is September 15th (ish).  Kindergarten, First, and Second graders celebrated Dot Day by reading “The Dot” and creating their own unique dots to decorate the art room door.   Stop by the art room during open house to look for your child’s unique dot!