In the Art Room - Oreo Art

Carve the creamy vanilla filling of an Oreo into a design? It's almost the end of the year, why not!

    

 

In the Art Room - First Grade Caped Crusaders

We're getting closer and closer to the end and I want less and less to set up for painting projects.  My classes are also getting interrupted as the grades partake in all of the special end of year activities like field day, field trips, Colonial Day and Medieval Day.  I'm looking for quick drawing projects that the kids can easily finish in one class period.  I taught the first graders how to draw Batman and Bat girl.  The kids really loved these.  All though the boys all yelled out when they saw my Bat girl example with pink lips and long eyelashes!!

               

In the Art Room - Tulip Fields

This was a great lesson for second grade!  It covered creating tints, landscape painting, and perspective.  We used tempera for the grass and clouds and oil pastels for the tulips.

     

In the Art Room - Quickie

Any day now, my 8th grade will stop coming to art to begin all day play practice for their big dinner theater performance.  So in the mean time I need some quick one period projects for my kids.  This was supposed to be a quick tutorial on graffiti tags.  For the time they had to complete them, I think they turned out great!

           

In the Art Room - American Flags

Here are two flag projects, one for sixth grade and one for third grade that were completed in two class periods.  I especially like this sixth grade flag because one of their first projects as seventh graders will be Op Art and this served as a great intro.  As for the third grades, I had one class cut out their flags and glue them to a firework background while the other class created an imaginary background for their flags.  The imaginary backgrounds were much more creative but they got real messy real quick.  The firework backgrounds made for a much cleaner finished product.

          

          

(that last flag is World War 3, Hamsters vs. Humans just in case you couldn't tell!)

In the Art Room - Quilled Food

This took a long time and A LOT of glue!  The fourth grade had a rocky start but the end results were great.  I think the hardest thing was creating the outline of the food without actually adding in a contour line. 

         

In the Art Room - Wire Form Figures

This year in addition to the model magic, we added color wire to our figures for a little more variety.  The kids were pretty pleased with the outcome!