A Little Broken Bike....

We have had a broken bike in the shed for a while at school and decided to bring it in for "repairs". We have been looking at Alexander Calders sculptures this month and talking about sculpture in general. The kids were delighted to see the bike in the classroom last week with a bowl of "supplies" to fix/enhance/design with. This is the beginning......

Bottle Cap Art

We have been collecting caps as a class for a collaborative project. Once we collected a huge box full we spent some time sorting by color and counting by 5's and 10's. Next, we played a game by rolling colored dice to match the color and place the caps. Our project will end up spelling the name of our preschool - Kaleidoscope. Each classroom has a panel with three letters on it.... See the final project below!

Dot exploration.....

Today we took a closer look to see dot patterns in our paper towels. We have been looking around for more dots as we work on our collaborative bottle cap project. 

Little Treasure Nests

Dollar store treasure nests....

What can you Make a Circle Into......?

a bear

"me"

a copy of this little dog!

a T Rex

A Sparkle Monster

A Bowl of Icecream

a house with my Dad, clouds and the sky

Busy Busy Spring Days!

Today we tested which sound we liked better for our parade maracas.... beans... or rice.....

 We have also spent some time sorting pom poms....

 and of course sorting caps for our collaborative cap art project.....

 We are also busy tearing and cutting tiny pieces of paper that we will soon add water too and make our own slurry for a paper project!

Andy Warhol Art

We have been working on repeated artwork. I took pictures of each student and repeated it four times. Then they colored each black and white image of themselves in.

This project we talked about  matching. There were two matched images in opposite corners and then they drew two more images to match and painted....
We are working on how to hold/use our brushes while we use liquid watercolor.