Winter Snowmen

4th Grade Lady Liberty

After learning about Peter Max and watching a short video about the history of the Statue of Liberty, we drew our portraits step by step with pencil and outlined in sharpie. The next day I showed students some tips and tricks for coloring with chalk pastels. I played a slide show of Peter Max's work while they colored.

Happy Vday!

My heart has been stolen by this guy. How can you blame me? I'm really planning on posting some of the awesome art lessons my students have been creating this year SOON! It's just crazy how much spare time I used to have to post... Until then... Happy Valentines Day!

1st or 2nd Grade Value Pumpkins

 

Thank you to Katie Morris here for this fun and beautiful lesson!  Students loved it and the results are wonderful. :)  I had students choose blue or purple background paper and gave them each a blue permanent marker.  (I get a lot of "my mom and dad don't even let me USE permanent markers at home!" at that point. :))  I begin by drawing the center oval and then they do the same, then we draw the stem, and add the other sections to the pumpkin.  I let them add leaves, and vines if they wanted to.  I just love love love the vines they add on.  They really go crazy with those!  Then we color in order from top to bottom with construction paper crayons. I try to get them to overlap the color to make it look blended, but it doesn't always happen.  The order of coloring is white, yellow, peach, orange, and red-orange.  Some of the classes we had time to add the blue shadow at the bottom.  Then they color the stem and leaves and voila!   Cute little pumpkins!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is one more little pumpkin I must introduce! ...And the reason I haven't posted in about a million years!  I've been quite busy spending most of my hours with my little baby boy, Wyatt! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6th Grade: Egyptian Metal Designs

2nd Grade: Van Gogh Sunflowers

2nd Grade: Mr. Seahorse Inspired

I believe a few other art teachers out there have done something like this before- they turned out so cute! This is a three day lesson.  First day, I read the students Mr. Seahorse by Eric Carle.  That same day I do a step by step drawing of a sea horse as the kids follow along in pencil on white construction paper.  They outline their drawing with black crayon or permanent marker would work too.  Next class, the take pre-cut tissue squares and overlap them one at a time placing them onto the seahorse, painting over each square with water to get the colors to bleed and the tissue paper to lay flat.  Third day, the tissue paper (once dry) falls right off, and they re-use them to cut out fin and spikes.  First they cut the seahorse out on their black line, and then they glue it onto a colorful piece of construction paper (their choice).  Finally they take a glue stick and outline the head and back of their sea horse, and cut up shapes from their tissue paper to stick onto the glue for fin and spikes.