Fourth Grade students created their Sun and Moon after we read an African folktale. Students used Warm and Cool colors and their knowledge about applying chalk pastels. Using their prior knowledge, some students chose to create their Sun and Moon in a "Picasso like" manner.

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I was first introduced to the artwork of Romero Britto as I was hanging a bulletin board for our P.E. teacher here at school. She had a cool poster about your heart, done with funky patterns and bold black lines. She told me she got it at her P.E. Conference and I was smitten from that moment! Her daughter lived and went to school in Boca Raton, FL and was pretty familiar with Britto's work as well. Why didn't I know about Britto?! I have worked on Britto projects with my third, fourth and fifth grade classes. Inspired by the print above (perfect for Spring!), my fifth graders made these beautiful patterned vases with simple patterned flowers inside. We kept it simple, painting some of the petals solids and some patterned. I'm afraid if we filled everything with patterns it might have gotten really messy! The outlining was done with liquid black ink applied with a small paintbrush. So in case YOU weren't familiar with the art of Romero Britto, now you can be inspired to learn more! I will share some Britto projects from my third and fourth graders soon!

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First graders have been having fun using lines, shapes and overlapping in our latest creations - family portraits and apple still lifes. I especially love the combination of the soft watercolor wash backgrounds and the colored, cut apple shapes together - these compositions were inspired by a post at MaryMaking, as well as the art of Matisse and Cezanne. Enjoy!

I got the original idea for this project from Union Hill Elementary in Grass Valley, CA via Artsonia. These fish were inspired by the work of abstract artist, Paul Klee. We learned that Klee was a Swiss-German artist who was inspired by Cubism, primitive art and children's paintings. He created over 8,000 works of art during his lifetime. In 1931 he began teaching art at an academy in Germany. He was run out by the Nazis who called his art (and all modern art) "degenerate." After a direct line drawing lesson for the fish shape, the children created their own patterns and designs with permanent marker to give their fish unique personality. They were encouraged to create some primitive symbols that were very prevalent in many of Klee's paintings. The outline of the fish was gone over with a black crayon. Lastly they used watercolor, Klee's favorite medium to add color to their fish.

After talking about how artists choose their subjects, 2nd graders had fun making pretend Menchies frozen yogurt sundaes with oil pastels. (Menchies is the yogurt shop across the street from our school.) I did this earlier in the year with 3rd graders and they had such a great time decorating their make-believe sundaes that I had to do the lesson again! The link to that lesson is HERE. First we looked at Monet's study of light on haystacks at different times of the day and in different seasons, noticing how the light on the haystacks made them look 3 dimensional. I loved the way one little guy raised his hand and asked, "Wasn't he the guy who painted lilypads in the pond in his garden?" That, of course, led us to a side conversation about Giverny and Monet's fabulous garden! We also took a peek at a few Thiebaud paintings with cylinders to see where the light was coming from for him. Kids got pretty proficient in identifying the direction of the light source directed at cylinders. Last, I used a flashlight shining on a real Menchies cup to solidify the concept. When we did this lesson with 3rd graders, the folks at Menchies took note and sent us this cool acknowledgement!!

Kindergarten students created City at Night Collages using the massive amounts of scrap paper we've collected over the year. They were first given random sized rectangle scraps and were asked to create each building with a different shape. Next, they added windows with black and yellow paper to represent lights on or off. Lastly, they added a night sky with white crayon. We were going to add a little more detail in the buildings, but I could tell they were getting bored with cutting and gluing windows, so we just skipped the details. As I look at the artwork collectively, I don't think those details will be missed! Thanks to Deep Space Sparkle for the great project inspiration!

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I absolutely love art lessons that involve chalk and oil pastels. The kids enjoy the vibrant colors of oil pastels and the magic that occurs when you blend several chalk pastels together! Grade tw…

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Hello, friends! My kindergarten is wrapping up a self-portrait lesson and it's one that I've never done before with them. I'm super happy with the result and I wanted to share with y'all. Mostly I wanted to share some of the tips and tricks and things I learned in hopes that it may help you, if you decide to go down this rainbow/self-portrait path. But first, let's chat about where this lesson falls in my kindergarten line of projects. We start the school year in kindergarten with Line Sculptures. From there, we moved on to Dot Painting. Following this, we painted Rainbows! Now, in the past, I completed this Line Unit before moving on but the last couple of years I've mixed it up a bit. I will bounce back to those lessons but for now, we are painting. We've also not finished our rainbows (by adding the sun and clouds) but that will happen this week. My favorite supply for painting with kindergarten are tempera cakes. This is a little what my set up looks like. I always serve up paint (or have the kids get their own paint) on trays. This helps us carry the supplies easier and contain the mess incase there are spills. If you know me and my paint set up, then you know that we normally use dog dishes for water and a sponge. But sometimes we are using them for other things so this is my back up set up: water pot (these are my favorite and you can find them here, they are NO SPILL!), sponge for 'drying' our brush (sponges are called Dirty Ole Sponge Bob and I get them from the Dollar Tree) and a tray to hold the sponges (old sushi dishes!). My tempera cakes are usually a mess. You can purchase tempera cakes in a set but they always end up getting crumbly or with a big hole in the middle. The tray the cakes come in is crap and a thing plastic. I noticed huge messes of paint left on tables a couple of years ago...which was from the thing plastic tray splitting and paint leaking out the bottom! So now I NEVER order the whole tray, just the refills like I do my pan watercolor paint. I love Prang's tempera cakes as well as Jack Richesons. I order all the colors in the rainbow. I use muffin tins and plastic condiment cups to create a palette for the kids. When we are painting our skin tone, the palette is changed to have only red, orange, yellow, white, brown and black. For painting rainbows, this is how I set up the palette. We spend a LOT of time listening to this song and this song as well as learning the ASL for all of the colors in the rainbow! Then we hit the ground running and paint our rainbows. Even in 30 minutes (the length of all my art classes), I always have early finishers! So early finishers are given another sheet of paper and told to paint a rainbow pattern. We wrap those up the following art class. Hot Tip: Cut 2" off the paper that you plan to frame that way it's ready to frame on traditional size construction paper! I plan to frame these self-portraits on black construction paper 12"X18". The following art class, we learn what a self-portrait is! This video REALLY helped and we loved it! After listening, dancing and singing with the song, I demonstrated drawing a large self-portrait as the kids directed me. I asked "what should I draw first? What shape should I use? How big should I draw?" Afterward, they were given paper and a permanent marker (I wished I would have had them use a regular black marker as the line would have been thicker). They did an amazing job! The following art class, we learned all about scissor safety! And how to carry and wear our scissors correctly. Below is a video on how I explain scissor safety to my students (if you cannot see this video, try viewing this blog post from your laptop): After cutting out, kindergarten glued their selfies to their rainbow backgrounds! This is definitely a project I'll be doing again!

We saw this lesson on Artsonia, I believe. It is adorable. The kindies make popsicle stick easels and real canvas to create this work of art! We created the velcro board so the students can put it on and take it off in the correct spot while walking down the hallway.

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I always start off my year with many sunflower art lessons. Here are some finished artwork from my 2014-2015 K2 class. Love these big 12" x 18" crayon resist sunflowers!

This is a great project to try at the beginning of the year or as your students are reviewing the alphabet and beginning to learn to write words and phrases. I got this idea from the book Dynamic Art Projects for Children. Ours are not exactly as the ones in this book, but very similar. We started by looking at the art of Stuart Davis and reading the phrases, words and numbers that we saw in his artwork. The … Read more... →

I found a few more photos of our apples to share. I love looking at these and will be sorry when I have to give them back to our students!!

Combining directed drawing and writing together provides an engaging literacy activity that targets core skills.

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For the longest time I have been thinking about how the end of February/first of March was going to be soooo CRAZY. Well, here we are in the middle of it and I am still standing. I have my tickets, hotel room, shuttle bus and general plan for hitting New York! I still have to finish up my sub plans, packing and cheering our home basketball team onto a victory in districts (Go Panthers!) tonight! Who needs sleep? Before I head out I feel that I should post something about what my kiddos have been up to... *5th grade is finishing their clay projects. Thanks to maps testing and my crazy schedule only one group is done but check out this guy who won a blue ribbon at the all-city show. *5th grade is also finishing their doodles for google. This year's theme seemed to be a little harder for them to work with. Use the word travel and they forget that it is supposed to be "in time." But still I am having some great entries. Check out this "travel to hang out with pirates" idea. *5th grade is also working on Zentangle Landscapes. I am thinking they will need some chalk color when they are done. It seems to be a great assignment for my sub to teach while I am gone. I am not usually a fan of such "simple" landscapes but my kiddos are amazing me with quality of their patterning... and with their concentration on this project! *6th grade is working on their portraits... I promise a post about it sometime. I have to see if it is a huge success or failure first :) *Celebrating Creativity Kiddo's just finished a Sandy Skoglund inspired project. (We used pixlr.com for our photo editing.) The nuts and bolts of the project was that we photographed around the building and small still life objects. We then edited the classrooms to be monochromatic. We also edited the background out from behind the small still life objects. We then layered them together.  There you go... next time you hear from me I will be at the National Art Convention in New York City. YEAH!

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lesson idea pass the marshmellows Chugging along with my winter themed art, third graders did a quick study of ellipses. We l...

I found a few more photos of our apples to share. I love looking at these and will be sorry when I have to give them back to our students!!

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This lesson has proven to be really successful with all my 5th grade students, and covers the standards of using thumbnail sketches and viewfinders, understanding positive/negative space, and creating color schemes. The pic above has the most sublime monochromatic sky - if I picked favorites, this may have to be it, so dramatic! Here are some shots that show our development.

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Another year of some great veggie collages inspired by Collage-Master Henri Matisse - read all about it and see a nice video of Matisse in action from last year's post here! http://dolvinartknight.blogspot.com/2012/09/vegetables-by-matisse.html This year we switched it up a little, using neutrals in the background. Tasty!

Paper Weaving. One of the projects I did with the kids for my Weaving Wonders Camp was Paper Weaving. Paper weaving is, of course, one of the first and most basic types of weaving. Kids in kindergarten, first or second grade will often complete paper weavings as introduction to weaving. Preparation: Gather fancy scrapbook paper, with patterns, bright colors and maybe even glitter. Add some solid colors if you wish. Cut strips on a paper cutter, approximately 1/2-1 inch thick. Don't be too obsessive about making them exactly the same size, you'll go crazy. Starting to Weave: Line up all of your strips on the table, making sure there are no overlapping edges. Take a long piece of masking tape and tape the strips down at the top edge. These kids, kindergarten-4th grade, finished the project in about 30 minutes. If you are worried your kids won't finish before the class ends, then have them tape the strips to a piece of cardboard so you can pack them up at the end of class. Weaving: Just like in any other paper weaving, take a strip and weave over and under each of the taped strips. The following strip will need to be woven the opposite way, under-- then over. To finish: Trim the edges, glue down all the ends on all four sides. Gently remove the tape. Cut a piece of poster board slightly bigger than the finished weaving. Apply hotglue on the back of the weaving and mount it to the poster board to finish the work.

Look at these darling mice... My first graders love to cut and paste and build. So... I told them a true story about what inspired this lesson. I opened Cedar Creek Elementary 18 years ago. Our school's playground backs up to a wooded area with trees. It's quite beautiful! One cold winter, we found an infestation of mice in our building. Most likely from the playground doors opening and closing all day long. We had to cover all of our food. No more leaving bananas on my desk to snack on. So I developed this mouse project. I asked my first graders to dress their mouse warmly (hats, boots, scarves, mittens) and make sure it had something to eat so it would stay outside. I got cheese, cookies, cupcakes, ice cream cones...you get the idea! So here is the basic mouse.... I gave each student 1 - 6 x 9 gray 1- 4.5 x 6 gray 1- 3 x 6 gray And we drew raindrop shapes for the head and body, making sure that all sides of the raindrop touched the edges of the paper. We folded the last piece in half and cut a circle for the ears. I showed the students how these pieces could be moved and arranged to show different viewpoints of the mouse. He could be looking at you, it could be a side view, etc. Once these basic shapes were cut out, they went to town cutting and gluing all the details. It took them two 40 minute class sessions. I use elmer's glue the first day, then glue stick the second, as they outline all the cut pieces with black marker. Make sure to give your mouse a furry texture with tiny lines. And, don't forget the whiskers! We finished the backgrounds in crayon.

Du skal bruge: Små lærreder (her 18 x 24) hobby/akrylmaling Husholdningssvampe Mønstret papir gerne med glimmer effekt nodepapir (her har jeg taget kopier af en nodeside) Paper punches Saks Limstift 1. Bland en farve til lærredet - mest hvid med en smule farve i, så det bliver en lys pastelfarve. 2. Påfør malingen på lærredet med en ½ husholdningssvamp - også på kanten hele vejen rundt. 3. Mens malingen tørrer, tegnes fuglen op på bagsiden af et stykke mønstret papir. Det kan gøres i fri hånd eller som her 3 fugle skabeloner fundet på nettet, printet ud, lamineret og klippet ud. Tegn også en vinge op. Klip fuglen og vingen ud. 4. Riv en strimmel tværs henover nodepapiret og lim den på lærredet lidt under midten, så fuglen har noget at sidde på. 5. Lim fuglen på. 6. Lav små figurer med paperpunch i papir, der matcher og lim også dem på lærredet. Disse fugle er lavet af 1. klasse og skal bruges som årets julegave - men shhhhhh! Det er en hemmelighed! ;-)

Last week Ace had fly swatters on sale (3/$1) and I couldn't resist picking up a pack to use for painting. It's a VERY messy craft - we broke out the hose afterwards - but the fun made it well worth every minute of clean-up. Here's what we used washable paint, fly swatters, paper plates, crayons, small table covered with craft paper. Husbandie knew that I was planning on doing this activity with the boys so while I was at work he helped them draw bugs all over the paper. Big Buddy really enjoyed coloring the bugs but was a little leery about the fly swatters - the splattered-paint-shirt look isn't for him. Mini Man on the other has was all over the fly swatters, going feet first into the grunge look. The neighborhood girls also couldn't resist joining the fun. Which got me thinking that a kids paint party could be really fun. Husbandie thinks I'm crazy and that it would turn our house and yard tie-dyed. I think the mess would be the fun part, and if we did it on a warm day we could just turn the pool into a bubble bath. We will see who's right :).

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These were some fun paper Memory Quilts that the kindergartners made! Aren't they cute? We read Tar Beach , by Faith Ringgold and talke...

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This month’s Famous Artist is Henri Matisse As a famous Fauvism artist, his modern art is full of bright colors and dramatic art. Fauvism was characterized by bold and often illogical colors.…

Mondrian Line Collage Learning Goals: Students were introduced to two types of line: horizontal and vertical. Students were also exposed to geometric shapes: rectangles and squares. They used crayons in the primary colors (red, yellow and blue) to create their artwork. They also learned to use glue appropriately. Students viewed and discussed the artwork of Piet Mondrian

Here are more of the 1st Grade flower paintings!! LOVE THEM!!!

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