cityscape...

I borrowed this lesson from wonderful Patty at Deep Space Sparkle...

Since we just learned out landscapes in Kinder, I thought it would be perfect to do a cityscape! It was a nice transition for the student and we are close to Charlotte, most of the kids have seen a good size city!

We started by talking about how buildings can be created with shapes. I had already cut out a bunch of different color rectangles for the building . The kids started with a black sheet of paper which they made a moon and splatter painted stars. The backgrounds were put aside to dry while the students created their buildings.

The students were instructed to create an interesting top for the buildings and add windows. I am all about letting the kids "do their thing" so some of the buildings have stairs and balconies and fringe!!!(oh my)

sea animals part 3

Our last step was to watercolor a nice big background for our sea animals to live. Kids painted backgrounds, cut out animals, glued animals down, and finally added details in the sea. I just love love love this project! They turned out SO amazing!!!


Here they are Eric Carl inspired sea animals...

how freakin' cute are these?!?!?!

dreams...

So, I am the type of person who has the cra cra craziest dreams ever! Ask any of my many roommates... most mornings I wake up and say " I just had a really weird dream."

So... on this particular day of summer camp I had one of those "I just remembered my dream" moments. Thus this little project was born.

I had an age range from Kinder to 3rd graders in this group at camp. I was not sure if this project would work... but of course, I showed no fear and went for it.


The kids had to choose a dream they could remember and create a mixed media collage. I was surprised and very happy that even my kindergartner had a dream she remembered! Some kids were concerned with the fact that they could not remember everything. I told them to make it up if things were a bit hazy!

I let them use magazines, paper, tempera, watercolor, wallpaper, and other stuff I can't remember right now. They could use really anything 2-d they wanted.

Art inspired by kid dreams...

 Kinder

 3rd grade

3rd grade

p.s. this is not the last you will hear of my weirdo dreams!

queen city....

Last but obviously not least... here is the final piece of art created from local communities: Charlotte!!!

The kids got to go on a walking tour of Charlotte. How fun to get to experience a big... ok...well small city, but big to a 3rd grader. Anyway, they walk around looking at the buildings and monuments and statues. Oh my!

In art class, we all decided on creating the Gold Rush trolley that Charlotte has for public transportation. The kids drew out the Gold Rush (they were allowed to take come creative liberties on how the trolleys actually look). Next, the students colored with color pencils. And finally they tissue paper collaged...

I love the tissue paper collage. It's a huge mess but very fun. It definitely takes patience and a certain level of skill using their little fingers.


Gold Rushhhhhhhhhh...

final apple trees...

 Here they are the final apple tree from the kinder kids! I love these! They are super cute with the "details" they added on!

Enjoy!

a pleasant surprise...

I am NOT one to do holiday themed projects...I'm just not into doing projects related to Christmas, Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, etc.... But this year I took on the challenge of creating the art for the holiday show and for a local library... Here we are Mid November, 75 degrees and we are talking about snowmen and poinsettias. Oy vey!

For the 5th grade class, I gave them 4 choices for their project:
snowglobes
poinsettias
snowflakes
and
nutcrackers...

I put out bins of scrap construction paper, tissue paper, wall paper scraps, ribbon, and yarn. I told them they had to collage the option they chose. We talked about what a collage means and I gave them some examples of what they can do. Very basic. I wanted to see what they came up with...

Yes, there was an art room explosion of every type of paper... but...

 

These projects are starting off awesome!!

It could have something to do with the fact that the doors of the art room are open letting in the beautiful 75 degree weather... these are the most unique holiday projects I have seen (I may be bias though)

Finish product coming soon....