Winter Scenes

Today I read the book Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for inspiration. This week students are continuing to work on cutting skills. They focused on squares and rectangles in the lower level. In the upper level students experimented with geometric shape as well organic shapes. After their shapes were glued down they added snow with paint using q-tips!

Abstract Clouds and Snowmen

This was a fun project to do with the new snow that has come down. I started by creating the "abstract cloud" and punching holes out. The kids drew and cut out circles to create their snowmen. Each one turned out different especially when they added scarves and hats!

A Triangle Winter Wonderland!

Here is a fun winter shape project to do...
This is a great opportunity to talk through some ideas of how to cut a triangle from a rectangle and how to make the forest scene look like it had depth by making the trees in the background smaller than those in the foreground.
The simplistic triangles made for fantastic forest designs!

Polar Bear Shapes

 

 I had the opportunity to sub few weeks ago. The class was discussing the arctic. I thought it might be fun to do a simple shape project creating polar bears. Here is how one of them turned out!

Triangle Birds

This week students worked on cutting triangles to create a cardinal in a winter scene. Some even fringed the triangles to give them a feathery look!
Happy Holidays everyone!
When we come back from break we will begin working with paints and color mixing!

Thankful Rocks

I saw this some place and wish I could reference where it was but it has escaped me....
Besides being Thanksgiving this weekend was the perfect weekend to do this project for many reasons.
I started by heating up some of our rocks from our rock collection jar in the oven at 200 degrees.
Next, I had the kids take crayons and draw on them. Since the rocks were hot the crayon melted easily. After they cooled and dried we took sharpie and metallic pen to write words of things we are thankful for. It's an awesome little bowl of thankfulness!
I have a feeling we will be adding on. Good thing we have a rock collection to grab from...

Nature Sketching

I just put a basket of clip boards loaded with paper and a pair of binoculars by the back door. The power of accessible art supplies took over without a word....... LOVE it when that happens!