At least once a year, I try do do a mixed media collage. I think there is a lot of value in having students see how they can combine several small projects into one final piece. This project took three weeks to complete, but I think it was well worth it. There is a whole […]
I normally don’t do Day of the Dead projects, but I decided to give it a shot this year. We started by reading a cute book, The Dead Family Diaz. It was light and humorous with great illustrations. We started out by drawing our skulls on black paper with white oil pastel. We painted the […]
I LOVE how this project turned out! I recently went to a workshop in Santa Barbara, CA. One of the speakers was Gina Lee. She did a very similar whale project. I made a few adjustments to make this work for my workshops. I couldn’t be more pleased with how they turned out! We […]
This week two of my classes finished their chameleon collage project. To begin this project, we read The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. We then created painted papers, one in cool greens and one in warm colors. The next step was creating our rainbow backgrounds. We used my favorite new art supply, Stabilo Woodies to […]
These penguins really turned out great! There were so many skills packed into this project. Last week, we painted our backgrounds with puck tempera and drew and cut our penguin shapes. This week, we drew and shaded the icebergs and cut out a beak and feet. After gluing everything down. Students chose scrap papers and […]
Last week, all classes focused on collage. The youngest group created color wheel collages. We started out by looking at a color wheel and discussing primary and secondary colors and why colors have a special place on the color wheel. I passed out pre-painted tissue papers, and they cut these into petal shapes. They then […]
My K-2nd grade group finished their Spat the Cats this week. I love all the different scenarios they created for their cats. What creativity! Even though we used the same shapes and colors to make them, they each have their own personality. The google eyes were a big hit. : )
I don’t usually don’t do a “back to school” project, but this Splat the Cat project was hard to resist. I have several new students in my K-2nd grade class, and I wanted to put their minds at ease with a funny book and a no fail project. We first read the book, Splat the […]
Our World Traveler workshop started this week with a visit to Peru. First, we read Up and Down the Andes by Laurie Krebs and Aurelia Fronty. We learned a little bit about Peru and the famous textiles produced by Peruvians. We talked about line and pattern, and then created our own patterns in oil pastel. […]
There are a lot of skills packed in to this fun project! We started with textured painted paper, which later would be sandy hills. Then we painted a colorful sunset sky. Clouds were added to the sky after a discussion about objects receding in space, how objects close to us appear larger and get smaller […]
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