I just finished uploading my new drawing tutorial on “How to draw 2 dogs on a hill” to my YouTube channel! I hope you like it! STUDENTS: IF THERE IS ANYTHING YOU’D LIKE ME TO DEMONSTRATE HOW TO DRAW, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL DO MY BEST TO CREATE THAT VIDEO!! Email me or reply to this blog post. Also- To all my students; If you watch my video and draw a picture of 2 dogs on a hill, please share it by emailing me a photo of it! I’d love to see your artwork (or ANYTHING that you create at home!)
Send your photos of your art to me at mfilmore@naschools.net
I miss you all so much, and I can’t wait to be back in my art room with you! Please keep creating and share what you make!
Stay safe and be well everybody ❤️ We are all in this together 💕 Mrs. Filmore
I hope that you and your families are all staying safe and healthy and are enjoying some imaginative, fun ways to create art at home!
I, along with the other two elementary art teachers of North Attleboro are hard at work coming up with creative, fun and engaging art activities that you and your families can try at home while school is closed. Be on the lookout for these fun art activity suggestions! They will be posted on the NAPS extended learning webpage SOON.
I’m also going to be creating some fun NEW step-by-step drawing video tutorials on my YouTube channel soon! I’ll blog these videos once they are filmed and edited and add them to my YouTube channel as well.
I just added some new photos of students creating art. My “Students Creating Art” link can be found under the main menu of this blog. Check that out after reading this if you haven’t already!
If you haven’t checked out my Art Games page, you can click on that link under my menu and play free educational art games as well!
Students, Remember the “What should I draw?” jar in my art room that you could use if you finished an art lesson early?! I’ve JUST included a link to all my original “What Should I Draw?” jar drawing ideas. You can check out that same exact list of drawing ideas found in my jar, HERE! Feel free to copy and print out these for fun drawing ideas to use at home! The link is also in my menu of this website.
1st-5th grade students from both Amvet and Roosevelt North Attleboro Elementary schools- Please Feel free to Email me any photos of any art you’ve been working on while at home! I’d LOVE to hear from you and see what creative things you have been up to!! My teacher email is mfilmore@naschools.net which is also listed in my contact page of this site.
Below are some AWESOME 2nd grade Abstract Self-Portraits students finished creating at Roosevelt Elementary School before schools closed for the time being. I wish I took a photo and could share EVERYONE’S, but was only able to capture a handful. More about this lesson with students creating them below the artwork.
This fun self-portrait lesson combines art exploration
in abstract art and color theory!
This lesson took (3) 40 minute art classes to finish.
On the first day of the lesson, students learned about abstract artwork and looked at a slideshow of artwork by various abstract painters (Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock and William de Cooning to name a few). We discussed how abstract art focuses mainly on lines, shapes, and colors.
ON DAY 1 After viewing the slideshow and doing a quick demo, students drew an abstract drawing using various lines, and shapes on 12×18″ medium weight tagboard. Students then went over all their lines with crayons being sure to press super hard (later on we would do a crayon wax-resist). They then filled out a short questionnaire with questions asking about their favorite things and things about themselves.
ON DAY 2 They painted their drawings using concentrated liquid watercolors creating a crayon wax-resist. Before painting we reviewed what the primary colors, secondary colors and warm and cool colors were. While kids worked, I took each students photo (which I later printed as a high-contrast black & white photo on printer paper).
ON DAY 3 Students
glued their black and white self-portrait onto their painting. Then
students cut out their pre-printed sentences into strips and added them to
their paintings using a glue stick!
I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post and check out other sections on this website for additional art resources and inspiration. And again, be on the lookout for some fun art activity suggestions you can try out at home that us elementary art teachers have created. These art activity suggestions will be posted on the NAPS Extended Learning district webpage soon. Awesome resources are available on that website for students/families to use already!
Stay safe and be strong!…….We will get through this!!
Each grade level has finished up another art lesson (or two!) since I last blogged, so…. I figured I’d just write a HUGE blog post on ALL grades!
I hope you enjoy reading and looking at all their beautiful artwork and fun photos of students creating them!! There’s a TON of photos!
Here we go!…..
1ST GRADE
MIXING PRIMARY COLORS TO CREATE SECONDARY COLORS!
In this quick 1 (40 min.) art class, first graders learned that the primary colors on the color wheel are red, yellow and blue. They also learned that these 3 colors cannot be created, and that they already exist! BUT if they are mixed in a certain way, they create the secondary colors (purple, green and orange)!
After demonstrating under the document camera on how to mix the primary colors, students each mixed on their own practice sheets.
They used liquid watercolor paints to mix within the circle on their worksheets. They loved seeing the colors appear like magic! And seeing their water cups change colors as well as they rinsed their brushes!
After creating the secondary colors, students watched a couple of fun, short stop-motion videos about the primary and secondary colors as seen below! They absolutely LOOOVED them and I think the jingle helps them remember better! They wanted me to play it a few times!
LOVE IS IN THE AIR! – 1ST GRADE
This fun 3 day lesson incorporates the elements of art; Shape, Color, Line, Form, and Texture! We also review overlapping, and crayon wax resist painting throughout the lesson.
Kids
finished them up just in time before Valentine’s Day! I can’t wait to display
them in the hall!
DAY 1: CREATE THE WARM TISSUE PAPER BACKGROUND
Students glued squares of warm colored tissue paper (reds, pinks, oranges and yellows) onto a sheet of 12×18″ tagboard using watered down glue. They glued a small area of the paper first with a paintbrush dipped into watered down white school glue, then laid down one piece of tissue, then apply another thin layer of glue on top. They repeated these steps for each piece to flatten the tissue out.
Students were encouraged to overlap as they glued pieces, and to fill up the entire paper.
DAY 2 – CONTINUE
GLUING TISSUE / CREATE PLANE
Students continued gluing tissue until their paper was filled in entirely. Then they each received a sheet of 8.5 x 11″ medium weight tagboard with a pre-printed outline of a plane. (I drew the plane ahead of time and photocopied them).
Students drew a variety of lines and/or shapes using crayon, pressing hard inside their plane, leaving a bit of white showing.
Once colored to their liking, they painted over the entire plane using watercolors, creating a crayon-wax resist. Students could paint with whatever colors they wanted!
Planes were set aside to dry along with their tissue backgrounds until the next class.
DAY 3: ADD PLANE AND HEART!
I pre-drew a large heart with pencil on everyone’s paper beforehand with a line that starts at one side and goes off the paper on the other side.
I demonstrated how to pull gently on the cotton batting to stretch and thin it out and how to shape it with their fingers.
Students glued on the cotton batting for the plane’s smoke along the lines I drew for the heart using a glue stick, pressing down and counting to 5 each time as they pressed.
Once the heart was finished, they cut out their planes and glued using a glue stick to their tissue paper backgrounds.
Awesome job first graders!! I can’t wait to hang them up in the hallway by the Art room!
For one of my first grade classes we created them on a painted blue background instead!
FIRST GRADERS WILL START “MIXED-MEDIA ALPHABET SOUP” NEXT! You can type the lesson name into the search box to check out previous blog posts on that lesson or go onto the 1st Grade Art Lessons page and scroll down!
2ND GRADE
Catching Snowflakes
Portraits – 2nd Grade
Second
graders had a lot of fun creating these adorable drawings of people catching
snowflakes on their tongues!! They did such a wonderful job, and I love how
each student put their own unique spin on the final touches!
This took 3 (40 minute) art classes to complete.
To create them, I demonstrated under my doc camera how to draw the face looking up by drawing a small upside down “u” for the nose, then a large circle for the head near the middle of their grey construction paper.
Then they drew a large circle or oval shape for an open mouth, squares or rectangles for the teeth (here, kids could add spaces between teeth to show the person lost a tooth or teeth!), a letter “m” for the tongue, lines for hair (flying around from the winter wind), a scarf, and sweater or jacket.
Once all drawn in pencil, students colored in using oil pastels.
I showed students how to clean their oil pastel sticks by using a piece of paper towel if needed. I showed them how to do this by wrapping a folded piece of paper towel (less likely to tear this way) around the top of the oil pastel stick and just twist the oil pastel a few times (or as needed) as your other hand holds it firmly. This is a great tip for all and any art lessons when using oil pastels, and especially when you don’t want other colors getting everywhere in your artwork where you don’t really want it.
Students added snowflakes (of course!) and could add one on the tongue as well!
For a final step, they outlined with a black oil pastel to help define edges.
Look below the photos of artwork to see pictures of students creating them!
2ND GRADERS HAVE BEGUN THEIR NEXT ART LESSON “ABSTRACT SELF-PORTRAITS”! You can view previous blog posts on this lesson by typing in the lesson on my search page or click on 2nd grade art lessons and view more there too!
3RD GRADE
3D WINTER MUGS!
This lesson incorporates 5 of the 7 Elements of Art- (Line, shape, color, texture, and form), and we talk about perspective, and one of the Principles of Art “variety”!
This lesson took 4 (40 minute) art classes to complete.
DAY 1
First, students drew a horizontal line near the middle of their 9×12″ heavyweight tagboard paper as they held the paper vertically, using a ruler.
Then they drew 2 different patterns- 1 for the top section (creating the wall) and one for the bottom section (creating the table) for the mug’s background.
They then traced over their lines with various colored crayons, being sure to press hard as they traced.
On a smaller sheet (9” x 4.5”) of tagboard, they created patterns and designs as well in pencil. This paper would eventually be their mug. Then traced over their pencil lines with crayons as well.
DAY 2
Students finished tracing over their designs on both papers with crayon.
DAY 3
Students painted their 2 papers (background paper and mug paper) with liquid watercolors, creating a crayon-wax resist. Students could use any colors they wanted!
DAY 4
Students assembled everything together!
They first flipped the mug paper over and folded back the ends about an inch, creating 2 flaps. Using a glue stick, students applied the glue on each flap HEAVILY (I told kids to go up and down with their glue stick 12 times just to make sure they put on enough since the paper is so thick!!)
Then they glued the flaps down to their background papers one side as a time, pressing down and counting to 10 as they held it in place to make sure it stuck on. Then curved their mug paper with their hands and pressed down counting to 10 as they glued the other flap down.
Then they drew the mug’s handle by drawing the letter C on their chosen colored construction paper (cut to 3” x 4.5”), cut the C shape out and glued into place next to their mug.
For a final touch, students applied glue to their papers and then added a small amount of cotton batting to the mug for steam coming out from the top of their mug!! They loved the texture of the soft, fluffy cotton!
I LOVE all of these winter mugs! Each one is so unique!!
AWESOME job 3rd graders!!
You can check out my YouTube video tutorial on the 3D Winter Mug lesson as well!
3RD GRADERS WILL START “KINETIC PIRANHA” NEXT!
TO VIEW PREVIOUS BLOG POSTS ON KINETIC PIRANHA WITH STUDENT ARTWORK, YOU CAN TYPE IN THE LESSON ON MY SEARCH PAGE OR GO TO THE 3RD GRADE ART LESSONS PAGE AND SCROLL DOWN!
4th GRADE
MIXED-MEDIA DONUTS!
4th
Graders did such an awesome job creating these colorful and fun donuts inspired
by artist Wayne Thiebaud!
This
lesson took 4 (40 minute) art classes to complete.
DAY 1
We reviewed what mixed-media means first, (using multiple mediums to create artwork) and I explained how we’d be using oil pastels, tempera paint, markers, colored pencils, and puffy paint to create their mixed-media donuts. I showed students my art teacher examples, as well as a PowerPoint with previous 4th graders donut artwork, then showed the first portion of my YouTube tutorial on the lesson.
First, students needed to create the background. They folded a piece of 9×12” heavy weight tagboard in half (horizontally) to create a crease, opened it up, then drew lines with a ruler to create a striped pattern along the top half. The lines could be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.
They
then did the same for the bottom ½ of their paper but made their lines going in
a different direction.
They then colored in each stripe with various colored oil pastels. The top section was colored in with one design and the bottom section using other colors for a 2nd design. Other than making the top half different colors from the bottom half, they could use any colors they wanted!
DAY 2
Students finished coloring in their stripes with oil pastels, and then drew their donut on a separate piece of paper. I talked about perspective and I demonstrated how to draw a donut (not viewed from above, like a circle) but as if viewing from eye-level, resting on a table in front of you. To do this, students drew an oval with a smaller oval near the top of the donut. Frosting was drawn dripping around the top of it and into the hole of the donut as well. They colored in their donuts using markers and/or colored pencils.
DAY 3
Students painted over their oil pastel covered paper using 2 colors of their choice with liquid tempera, one color on the top half, and one color on the bottom half.
Once one section was painted, they used texture combs to scrape over the painted area while still wet, to create various lines within the paint and reveal the colorful oil pastel layer beneath it! Students LOVED this step!!
Students could create any lines with their texture combs they wanted (wavy, straight, etc, and could overlap as they scraped too). They then painted the bottom half and ran the texture comb along that section too, creating lots of texture to their background!
DAY 4
Student’s were introduced to artist Wayne Thiebaud and viewed a slideshow of his paintings. We discussed how his paintings of cakes, donuts and other sweet treats looked so real, and how the texture of his thick layers of paint for frosting looked like real frosting! I explained how in the next step- we would be adding even more TEXTURE to our artwork by adding a cut paper doily and puffy paint for the sprinkles!
Students then finished drawing and coloring in their donut if needed, and glued on a half a doily to the center of their papers with a glue stick.
Then cut out and glued on their donuts with a glue stick, and as a final step, applied various colored puffy paint on their donut to create their sprinkles (students LOVED this step!)
4th GRADERS ARE WORKING ON “RADIAL SYMMETRY PRINTMAKING” NEXT! A COUPLE CLASSES AT ROOSEVELT ALREADY STARTED, AND I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT EVERYONE CREATES! TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS LESSON AND SEE HOW THEY ARE CREATED, TYPE IN “RADIAL SYMMETRY PRINTMAKING” IN THE SEARCH BOX TO GO TO THAT BLOG POST!
To view my YouTube video on this Mixed-Media Donut lesson and the Radial Symmetry Printmaking lesson you can check out my YouTube channel HERE!
5TH GRADE
FALLING FOR FORESHORTENING!
For this art lesson, students learned about a type of perspectivecalled foreshortening.
(Scroll down further to view photos of students working on this lesson!) Foreshortening is a drawing technique used to create the illusionwhere parts of something or someone appear to come out at the viewer strongly, making those areas seem closest to the viewer, and some parts appearing to recede strongly, making those areas seem the furthest away from the viewer.
Students
used this technique by drawing a person that appears to be falling backwards
into something, with their arms and legs outstretched. They did this by tracing
their hands along the top of the paper, and their feet along the bottom of the
paper, leaving space in the middle. They then drew the head, neck, arms, and
legs of a person smaller, to create the illusion that the body was further away
than the feet and hands.
Students were instructed to pay special attention to the soles of their shoes, being sure to add details and texture.
Students also had to draw the person’s facial expression to match whatever it was they were falling into (something scary, or something soft and fun!), show movement in the hair, and add line details to the palms of the hands for texture too.
Once the person was drawn, 5th graders outlined the entire person in black sharpie, then drew a background depicting what their person was falling into, and colored in everything using colored pencils and/or markers.
Some 5th grade classes are currently still working on these for another day or 2, but I’m super impressed with the creativity and attention to detail!
Here are a couple of students drawings only in pencil and sharpie to start…
Close-ups from the ones above
NEXT UP, 5TH GRADERS WILL START A NEW ART LESSON THAT I HAVEN’T TAUGHT BEFORE – INSPIRED BY THE ARTIST JIM DINE ….CAN’T WAIT!!!
THANKS SO MUCH FOR STOPPING BY AND VISITING MY BLOG TO SEE WHAT STUDENTS ARE UP TO IN THE ART ROOM! IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY…. CHECK OUT THE DROP DOWN SECTION “STUDENTS CREATING ART” PAGE ––I JUST ADDED A BUNCH OF FUN NEW PHOTOS!!
I’LL ALSO BE POSTING MORE ARTWORK LATER THIS WEEK!
This lesson took 3 art classes to complete (40 minutes each). 2nd graders followed along with me as I did a guided drawing for their bear on 12×12″ 80# white drawing paper in pencil. They added a ton of texture for the fur with sharpie, then they used some of their math skills to create their patterns in the sweaters!
Read more on all of this below students artwork, to see my step-by-step photos on how we created our bears!
I love all the different expressions!
Here’s how I demonstrated to students on how to draw the bear!
When kids were ready, I gave students dice and a pattern sheet that I created where each pattern was labeled by a number.
I posted this up on the board for kids to see when they rolled their dice for their patterns in their sweaters. Where it says “your choice of a pattern” they could select one from the sheet to draw, or create their own.
These are my 3 teacher examples above
Here’s some photos of students creating their awesome bears!
Lesson inspiration from Britt Curley and @2art.chambers (instagram account)
How adorable are these bears?! We used liquid watercolors and salt for the background, then a guided drawing of the polar bear and black oil pastel for shading! Read below students artwork to see how we created them with step-by-step pics!
DAY 1
On the first day of this 2 day lesson, students painted their background sky for the polar bear.
I put out bowls of turquoise and magenta liquid watercolors and bowls of kosher salt. 3rd graders watched me do a quick painting demo under the doc camera first, reviewing the wet-on-wet painting technique. First applying only water to the top half of their 12×18″ 80# white drawing paper, then adding whichever color paint they want first to the wet areas on their paper. Kids always love seeing how the paint spreads and feathers outward when doing wet-on-wet!
I encouraged students to paint randomly, and let the two colors merge here and there. If they created somewhat of a stripey effect with the two colors, I showed them how to brush on only water between the two stripes to help blend them together and blur the lines a bit more.
They loved watching the variety of lavender and purple hues develop when the turquoise and magenta paint mixed!
Once half the paper was painted and while still wet, students sprinkled salt over that area creating a salt resist technique! 3rd graders remembered this technique when they created the 3D Water lily last year in 2nd grade. Once dry, the salt crystals leave behind white areas that resemble snowflakes in the sky. For our 3D waterlilies project, the salted areas resembled light reflecting off the water background for the waterlily.
Once half of the paper was painted and salted, they wet the other half with just water and repeated painting and adding salt to the remaining half. Working on half the paper first, ensures the area is still wet enough for the salt. If the paper is too dry (the paint has dried up and the paper isn’t wet enough) the salt has nothing to absorb to create the snowflake effect.
Paintings were set aside to dry until the following art class.
Once dry, I brushed off all of the salt on students paintings and flattened them under a pile of heavy books. Here’s a few students painting’s that have been brushed off and flattened and are ready for the polar bear!
They ALL turned out beautiful, but I LOVE the way the salt created those interesting marks at the top in this one!!
DAY 2
3rd graders followed along with me while I did a guided drawing of the polar bear on 12×18″ 80# paper. Here are step-by-step photos that show how I drew the bear with my students.
STEP 1: DRAW 2 RAINBOW LINES FOR THE BEARS FEETSTEP 2: DRAW 3 LINES WITHIN EACH PAW
STEP 3: DRAW ANOTHER SMALLER RAINBOW LINE IN BETWEEN THE TWO PAWSSTEP 4: DRAW A LARGE RAINBOW LINE FROM PAW TO PAW STEP 5: DRAW THE BEARS HEAD STEP 6: DRAW TWO CURVED LINES FOR THE EARS STEP 7: DRAW TWO SMALLER CURVING LINES INSIDE THE EARS STEP 8: DRAW A LARGE EGG SHAPE INSIDE THE HEADSTEP 9: DRAW 2 SMALL CIRCLES FOR THE EYESSTEP 10: DRAW AN UPSIDE DOWN TRIANGULAR SHAPE FOR THE NOSESTEP 11: DRAW THE LETTER “W” FOR THE MOUTH. DRAW A TINY CIRCLE IN THE RIGHT PART OF THE EYES. DRAW A LONG OVAL SHAPE ALONG THE TOP OF THE NOSE.
Once drawn in pencil, I showed students how to add the black oil pastel. First we traced over all our lines with the black oil pastel. Then colored in the eyes and nose except for the small shiny reflective parts, where it remained white, like below.
STEP 12: TRACE OVER ALL LINES THICKLY WITH BLACK OIL PASTEL. COLOR IN THE NOSE, EXCEPT FOR THE OVAL. COLOR IN THE EYES, EXCEPT FOR THE TINY CIRCLES.
Then using one finger, smudge the oil pastel, following the direction of the lines drawn for each area, creating shadows within the polar bears fur. The only areas you don’t smudge are in the polar bears eyes, nose and mouth.
Where the curve of the belly is, we drew a few curving lines with oil pastel and smudged a U shape to give him MORE chubby cuteness!
Then draw a straight horizontal line where the curve of the belly is on either side of the polar bear with pencil. This creates the snow the polar bear is standing on.
Once finished smudging, students cut out their bears. Cut following the horizontal line, then cut following the curve of the body of the bear and to the other horizontal line. Now the bear and the snowy ground are cut out as one piece.
Then glue the back with a glue stick, (especially around the edges), then glue onto the painting, lining up both papers edges!
Voila! I LOVE these polar bears so much!
This wonderful lesson idea is from @2art.chambers (with a few changes). Thanks LauraLee!
More 3rd grade polar bears will be added after winter break! Also STAY TUNED for new 2nd grade artwork– Coming very soon!!
Read below students artwork to see how we created them!
This lesson took 2 (40 minute) art classes to finish. A fun quick lesson right before the winter break! Students had so much fun creating them especially when adding flecks of white paint for the snowflakes with toothbrushes!
DAY 1
After reviewing what a landscape was, students drew 5 triangles on a sheet of 12×18″ 80# white paper with pencil. I encouraged them to draw them in various sizes. Students could use rulers if they wanted as well.
Once drawn, they went over their lines with a black colored pencil to darken their lines. This is so kids could see their lines better when cutting them out, after gluing down tissue paper on their triangles.
Then they glued colorful cut tissue pieces all over their triangles using watered down white school glue. Students overlapped tissue as they glued, making sure to cover all the white spaces within their triangles. It’s important here to apply thin layers of glue, then one tissue at a time, then add another thin layer of glue on top with their brush to make the tissue lay nice and flat.
I mentioned to students they could go beyond their triangles edges with tissue since we would be cutting them all out later on.
These were set aside to dry until the following art class.
DAY 2
Students cut out their snowy hills from white paper and glued onto a sheet of 12×18″ black paper with a glue stick.
Then cut out their triangle trees and glued onto their snowy hills with a glue stick.
Then for a final touch, dipped a toothbrush (packs of 5 at the dollar tree!) into watered down white tempera paint and using their thumb ran their thumb across the bristles (bristles pointing downward to their landscapes) flecking snowflakes all over! Messy for sure! But fun!
This
lesson took 2 – 3 (40 minute) art classes to complete.
DAY 1:
On a piece of black construction paper (cut to 6”x18”) Trace 6 bulbs using a bulb tracer with pencil. (I created these bulb tracers ahead of time from thin cardboard sheets found from the back of printmaking foam board packages-great way to recycle and it’s free!)
*BTW- I like to use Sax brand “Black Colored Art Paper” because of how saturated in color it is, and doesn’t have spotting or inconsistencies within the paper. Not trying to get any freebies with the company Sax, or saying other paper isn’t going to work for this! Just wanted to share my opinion!
Then outline each bulb first, using oil pastel, then fill in -pressing hard- so the color is more vibrant. Leave the rectangular base (bulb socket) black. Students can test out colors to see if they like the way it looks along the top where there isn’t a bulb -before coloring in their final bulbs.
For any
tidbits of oil pastel that gather up and leave a chunk on their paper, I just tell
students to shake their papers to get rid of them, so it’s less likely to get
smeared into other bulbs or on other students artwork when stacked together for
the following week.
Then
add a small white curved line near the top to make it look like it’s shiny and
reflecting light, a “cursive L shape” for the filament near the base, and 4
white straight lines in the bulbs base using a white oil pastel.
Finish the remaining 5 bulbs the same way, using whatever
colors you want (they can be all the same color or a mix with some the same
color, or all different colors).
Day 2:
Finish coloring in the 6 traced bulbs with oil pastel if
needed.
Then draw a wavy line in the middle of a piece of 12×18” black construction paper using pencil. Then trace over that line with colored oil pastel (it can be 1 color / or a line of a combination of colors)
Trace 6 bulbs along wire line where you want them with pencil using the bulb tracer again.
For each bulb tracing on the wire line, using a white CHALK pastel, draw a thick white line along your pencil line, on each of the bulb tracings. I tell my students to draw with their white chalk up and down overlapping the previous line to create a nice layer of chalk dust as they do this step. Do this with all 6 bulbs.
Then, smudge with your finger going outward (going away from the bulb and smudging in one direction) to create a glow effect!
Then using the same color CHALK PASTEL as each of your OIL
PASTEL bulbs—go over the same white line with colored CHALK pastel thickly.
Smudge outward again with your finger. Do all 6 bulbs with the chalk on the black
paper.
(To avoid blending colors, use a different finger for each color when smudging).
DAY 3:
Finish using the colored chalk pastels on the traced bulbs along the wire if needed. Cut out each colored OIL PASTEL bulb from the 6”x18” strip of black paper.
Each time you cut one out, glue the back of it using a glue stick, and glue down in place over the traced bulb with chalk smudges (glue down matching each bulbs color with chalk pastel smudges). I ask students glue them down immediately after cutting one out, just in case their bulbs won’t get mixed up with other student’s bulbs on the tables!
To find out more about this lesson, and view photos of students creating their own Victorian homes, read below students finished artwork!
Please visit my TpT store for a 12 page hand drawn resource to download for using with this lesson in your classroom! Link is here
This lesson took about (6) 40 minute art
classes to complete. I think absolutely worth every class though! Students took
their time to carefully craft their unique house!
4th Graders learned what architecture is, learned about some of the common characteristics found within the Victorian architectural style (Gables, bay windows, fish-scale shingles, turrets, towers, front porches, gingerbread details, multiple chimneys to name a few), and then created a drawing of their own Victorian style house that included some of those elements!
We also reviewed the Elements of Art and how students would be utilizing 6 out of the 7 elements of art to draw their homes; Line, Shape, Color, Space, Texture, and Value.
Students also made the connection between art and math since we talked about acute and obtuse angles for the gables, as well as using rulers to draw any straight lines.
Please visit my TpT store for a 12 page hand drawn resource to download for using with this lesson in your classroom! Link is here
DAY 1
On the first day, I showed students a PowerPoint with photos of various Victorian homes, which pointed out these particular common elements.
Here are some of the slides I show my students from my Powerpoint.
Then I ask students to raise their hand and share what similarities they see that these two Victorian houses have.
Then I showed students a variety of Victorian house drawings students created from previous years, as well as my own examples. We also talked about how many of us noticed Victorian houses in the North Attleboro area, and how some students live in one or have relatives that do!
I asked students if they had any architects in their family, or if they knew of anyone who was one. Many students did, and it was great to hear so many fun stories about the connections they already have with architecture!
After that I demonstrated under the doc camera how to draw some of the Victorian elements. I showed them how to draw a bay window, fish scale shingles, turrets and towers, 3-D steps that lead to the front door, gables, and bricks (for chimneys or on the house).
Students then practiced drawing these elements on a double-sided worksheet. Students each received a “step-by-step” how to draw Victorian elements packet that I created to help them if needed.
DAY 2
First, I showed them what they needed to include in their drawing, and went over each item.
Then I showed them my Victorian handouts (with the descriptors) that they could use while drawing (as a reference)
and that they could use the same step-by-step how to draw sheets that they used when they did the practice sheets. I explained to not “copy” but to look at the various images for inspiration to create their own unique Victorian house and to be creative!
Then I did a demonstration drawing a Victorian house under the doc camera. I explained they could hold their paper vertically (explaining their house would be taller and less wide if they did), or horizontally (their house would be wider and less tall). I explained their house needed to be almost as large as their paper but leaving room around the edges and especially near the bottom to include the 3-D steps that would lead to their front door. I suggested to start drawing the gables first, drawing the rooflines working their way down.
I posted the goals for the drawing on the board again, and students passed out handouts, rulers and 9×12″ 80# paper and began drawing their own unique homes!
DAYS 3 – 6
Once students finished drawing their houses,
they carefully colored them in using colored pencils with any colors they
wanted.
I demonstrated how to color in the chimney’s
bricks (or other brick details within the house) using a variety of reds,
browns, white, tans, and pinks and suggested to stagger the same color just
like in real chimneys. And to color any stones with neutral colors; browns,
black, greys, tans and white.
CLICK Here to a link to download my FREEPRINTABLE step-by-step Victorian details drawing handouts on my Teachers Pay Teachers page as well as my own Victorian Architecture PowerPoint (which can also be printed out for students to use for reference in your classroom).
To view additional Victorian house drawings by 4th grade from previous years, click on “4th Grade Art Lessons” and scroll down.
Thank you so much for stopping by! I will be blogging about NEW art lessons later this week and next! Be sure to pop on by again real soon to check it out!
Do you remember that show “Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego” … that educational / detective game show on PBS for kids from the 90’s?
When I was trying to think of a good title for
this blog entry, the jingle for that show popped in my head, so I couldn’t
resist mentioning it.
Anyhoo…..YIKES?! Has it REALLY been since June that I last posted?! Where does the time go?! Well, from now on, until the end of the school year, I’ll be posting regularly (at least once a month).
I’ve got a lot to catch up with! Here’s what all my students have been working on since the start of the school year!
I’ll start with 5th grade artwork and work backwards to 1st grade.
ALSO… There are some NEW art lessons that
I’m starting with my students for ALL grades!
Here is a collection of my teacher examples for all the NEW art lessons students will be starting in the next week or two! More details on these lessons under each grade level discussed below.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT- 1ST GRADE WINTER LANDSCAPE, 5TH GRADE PAINTBRUSHES, 3RD GRADE POLAR BEAR, 2ND GRADE BEARS WITH SWEATERS, 4TH GRADE POSITIVE/NEGATIVE TREES
5TH GRADE
SUPERHERO
SKETCHBOOK COVERS
This lesson took about (6) 40 minute art
classes to finish
In the beginning of every year I have all grades create their own sketchbook that will be used periodically throughout the year in art class.
Each grade level has a different drawing lesson to create the cover for their sketchbooks.
Sketchbooks are used during class to: practice drawing before creating a final version, free draw in if finished with a lesson early, to write down information that they’ve learned from a particular lesson, and to experiment with various art materials.
On the first day of the lesson I showed them my PowerPoint
slideshow of various famous comic book covers from the 1950’s onward, as well
as previous 5th grade student artwork before drawing. They LOVED it
and it got them excited to come up with their own ideas!
Students then filled out a worksheet to plan their drawing (what
was their name going to be? Were they human? An animal? A mystical creature? An
inanimate object? Food? Where did they fight crime?, What were their superpowers?,
Did they have a sidekick? etc.) to help with final decisions. Then on the back
of the worksheet students sketched ideas for their superhero and outfit.
On day 2, students drew the title, then started drawing their own
unique superheroes (something that hasn’t existed before, creating their own!) demonstrating
their superpowers. Students had a packet of various superhero poses and
superheroes in action to use a reference when drawing.
They had a choice of creating sidekicks, whether they wanted to
include a villain and needed to create a background scene.
Drawings were then outlined in black sharpie and colored in with
a choice of marker or colored pencil or both.
I love this drawing lesson because it allows so much creativity! Each one is so unique!
FALLING FOR FORESHORTENING – 5TH GRADE
This art lesson takes about 4 to 5 (40 minute) art classes
For this art lesson, students learn about a type of perspective called foreshortening, and continue to expand their knowledge on ways to create something that appears to have depth and a sense of space on a flat piece of paper.
Foreshortening is a drawing technique used to create the illusion where parts of something or someone appear to come out at the viewer strongly, making those areas seem closest to the viewer, and some parts appearing to recede strongly, making those areas seem the furthest away from the viewer.
Students used this technique by drawing a person that appears to
be falling backwards into something, with their arms and legs outstretched, by
tracing their hands along the top of the paper, and their feet along the bottom
of the paper, leaving space in the middle. They then drew the head, neck, arms,
and legs of a person smaller, to create the illusion that the body was further
away than the feet and hands.
Students were instructed to pay special attention to the soles
of their shoes, and hands, being sure to add details and texture.
Students also had to draw the person’s facial expression to match whatever it was they were falling into (something scary, or something soft and fun), and to show movement in the hair.
Once the person was drawn, they outlined in black sharpie, then drew a background depicting what their person was falling into, and colored in everything using colored pencils.
Students are currently working on this lesson and haven’t finished yet. Here are a few drawings in the works!
The ones below are finished drawings by my previous 5th graders just to show some final versions!
I’ll be posting CURRENT 5th grade students finished Falling For Foreshortening artwork soon!
Students and Parents- My Monday 5th grade class (5Y) have only had 7 art classes so far since September due to holiday’s and ½ day PD days so they are a bit behind. Because of this, I’ve decided to have them start HOLIDAY LIGHTS first, since it’s a short 2 day lesson and THEN move on to the “falling for foreshortening” lesson.
HOLIDAY LIGHTS! – 5TH GRADE
This art lesson takes just 2 (40 minute) art
classes to finish!
We use oil pastels, chalk pastels, glue
sticks, scissors and Sax black Art paper for this lesson. Students review VALUE
and learn how adding white to colors create TINTS.
I got this wonderful lesson idea by the AMAZING art teacher artwithmrsnguyen
Go check out her awesome website if you haven’t already!
Students will be working on this lesson soon– if they haven’t already! So, no photos to share of this year’s 5th graders final creations yet! But, I will be sure to post their finished artwork as well as photos of students creating them shortly!
Just so you can see what they look like–These are some photos of my 5th grade student’s “Holiday Lights” drawings from previous years!
Jim Dine Inspired PAINTBRUSHES – 5TH GRADE
I got this amazing art lesson idea from art teacher, Lauralee Chambers (her Insta account is @2art.chambers )
My Teacher example below- I had so much fun creating thisand I know my 5th graders will too!
I am SOOO EXCITED about this lesson guys! I cannot wait!!
5th graders will start this one
after “Falling for Foreshortening” and “Holiday Lights”!
We will use sharpies, black oil pastel, and watercolors to create them.
More details coming soon….
4th
GRADE
SKETCHBOOK
COVER DRAWINGS
So, for this particular sketchbook cover drawing lesson, fourth
graders created a personalized drawing using their initials.
First, students created a tracer (template) of their
initials by drawing them in block
letter style on a small piece of manila tagboard and then
carefully cut them out as one piece. I explained to
students that the letters had to touch somewhere, but not overlap in order for
this to work. Students could draw their letters backwards, stack them on top of
each other or have them side-by-side. To cut out smaller areas (like the
triangles in the letter “A”, or openings in the letter “O”) they used a hole
puncher or scissors to open it up before cutting.
Once cut out as one piece, students were then challenged to create an interesting design by tracing their initials template at least 8 times without overlapping on a piece of 8×11 80# paper. Students had the choice of drawing some initials coming off the page, and could trace them turned in any direction they wanted.
Once outlined with black sharpie, students then created an interesting background design using lines and/or shapes with pencil then colored in with an analogous color palette using colored pencils. The letters were left white to pop and stand out against the background. Students overlapped colors together where needed to achieve the necessary analogous color. Pieces of scrap paper were used to test out color combinations before coloring on their final drawing.
VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE – 4th GRADE
This lesson takes (6) 40 minute art classes to complete. I think absolutely worth every class though! Students are taking their time carefully crafting their unique houses!
4th Graders learned what architecture is, learned about some of the common characteristics found within the Victorian architectural style (Gables, bay windows, fish-scale shingles, turrets, towers, front porches, gingerbread details, multiple chimneys to name a few), and then created a drawing of their own Victorian style house that included some of those elements!
On the first day, I showed students a PowerPoint of various Victorian homes, which pointed out these particular elements. I also showed students a variety of Victorian house drawings students created from previous years, as well as my own examples. We talked about how many of us noticed Victorian houses in the area as well, and how some students live in one or have relatives that do.
We also reviewed the Elements of Art and how students would be utilizing 6 out of the 7 elements of art to draw their homes; Line, Shape, Color, Space, Texture, and Value.
After I did a demonstration on how to draw some of the Victorian elements, students practiced drawing them on a worksheet.
Each student received a “step-by-step” how to draw Victorian elements packet that I created if they needed, as well as handouts of various Victorian style homes to use as reference while drawing.
I explained to not “copy” but to look at the various images for inspiration to create their own unique Victorian house.
Students certainly did! Check out the beautiful drawings in progress below!
I asked students if they had any architects in their family, or if they knew of anyone who was one. Many students did and it was great to hear so many fun stories about the connections they already have with architecture!
Once students finished drawing their houses, they carefully colored them in using colored pencils with any colors they wanted.
I demonstrated how to color in the chimney’s bricks (or other
brick details within the house) using a variety of reds, browns, white, tans,
and pinks and suggested to stagger the same color just like in real chimneys.
And to color any stones with browns, black, greys, tans and white.
Most students are still creating their houses, but here are some finished ones as well as ones in process!!
Students are doing a fabulous job! I LOVE how unique each one is!
I’LL BE SURE TO POST MORE FINISHED VICTORIAN HOUSES ONCE ADDITIONAL CLASSES COMPLETE VERY SOON!
CLICK Here to a link to download my FREE PRINTABLE step-by-step Victorian detail drawing handouts on my Teachers Pay Teachers page as well as my own Victorian Architecture PowerPoint (which can also be printed out for students to use for reference in your classroom).
POSITIVE / NEGATIVE TREES– 4th GRADE
This is one of the new art lessons that 4th graders will start very soon!
It’s a 1 day (40 minute) art lesson and uses construction paper, scissors and glue sticks to create.
This lesson is from LauraLee Chambers (@2art.chambers )
4th Graders will review complementary colors, positive/negative space, and symmetry while creating a cut out tree design on 1 sheet of 9×12” and 1 sheet of 9×6” colored construction paper.
BELOW ARE SOME OF MY TEACHER EXAMPLES TO SHOW STUDENTS
I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT MY 4TH GRADERS CREATE! I KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO LOOK AMAZING!
3RD
GRADE
SKETCHBOOK
COVERS
3rd graders were allowed to draw whatever they wanted for the cover of their sketchbooks this year. I encouraged students to draw large and clear, and to use bright bold colors when coloring in. Students could use markers or colored pencils to color with after outlining their drawing in sharpie.
They were very creative with their drawings!
DAY OF THE DEAD SKULLS– 3RD GRADE
This lesson took about 4 (40 minute) art classes to finish.
On day 1 -3rd graders learned about the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos (Day of the dead) and looked at a slideshow of images of the celebrations and festivals with people in costume celebrating the holiday as well as students skull artwork from previous years.
Students chose a black and white skull image that had been lightened in the photocopier. They taped their selected skull image to a 9×12″ sheet of tagboard that was wrapped in tinfoil (taped at the top only) with masking tape. Then students traced over all the lines of the skull image with a dull pencil to transfer the image onto the tinfoil.
Students could alter their image by drawing additional designs
while tracing.
The traced print out image is then removed, revealing their
transferred image on the foil.
On days 2-4, they colored in the designs of their skull on the
tinfoil with colored sharpies.
Although a very simple art project, students love it. It also introduces them to various transferring methods which they will further explore this year when they start printmaking with Styrofoam.
SELF-PORTRAITS WITH PERSONAL SYMBOLS -3rd GRADE
This lesson takes about 4 (40 minute) art classes to complete.
This lesson was inspired by the artist Frida Kahlo, who is well known for
her self-portrait paintings
and often incorporating symbols into
her artwork.
DAY 1:
Students were introduced to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and learned about her interesting life and beautiful artwork!
We looked at a variety of her self-portrait paintings and some photos as well showing her with her many unique pets! (Students loved seeing her with her pet spider monkey, 4 parrots, a deer, a hawk and other interesting creatures! She loved animals and had a lot of unique pets throughout her life!
Students also learned how she originally wanted to be a doctor
and studied medicine, but then was in a terrible trolley accident which left
her bedridden in the hospital for a very long time. Her mother gave her paints
and drawing supplies to help her pass the time in the hospital and set up a
mirror above her bed, which led her to her love of painting, becoming an artist
and creating her many self-portraits!
After discussing her use of symbolism in some of her self-portraits, and discussing what a symbol was, students looked at a variety of student examples as well as my teacher examples.
For the lesson, I explained they needed to draw themselves large on the paper vertically, only including their head, neck and shoulders, (like in their school photos!) then to draw 6 – 7 symbols around them that reflect their interests and personality. The symbols should be drawn large and at least as big as their closed fist (making sure the objects are clearly identifiable and easy to outline and color in later on).
Then, I reviewed with students how to draw the shape of the head
and facial details as well as facial detail placement on the head, under the
doc camera on 12 x18″ 80# paper. I had facial detail handouts to use and refer
to as they drew with a variety of eyes, noses, and mouth images if they wanted
to use them, but didn’t have to.
Students then started drawing soon after with pencil, drawing
lightly in case they needed to erase.
DAYS
2-4:
Students continued drawing and once all details were added and 6-7
symbols were drawn around them, they outlined all lines with a black sharpie.
Students used crayons (pressing firmly, so the colors would be vibrant) to color in. I explained to find a crayon or two, (overlapping and blending the two colors if needed) that best matched their unique skin color, hair color and eye color.
As a final step, students chose one color to color in the
background, to make their self-portrait and symbols stand out, filling in the
entire paper so no white paper was showing.
Students are currently still working on these. Here are some photos of them creating their self-portraits! I will post finished artwork once complete soon!
Thank you Kaitlyn (Art with Mrs E) for this helpful facial expressions sheet! My students loved it! You can get a copy in her TpT account. Her insta account is (@artwithmrs.e)
POLAR BEARS – 3RD GRADE
This is another NEW art lesson that 3rd graders will begin very soon!
These adorable polar bears will take about 2 (40 minute) art classes to complete.
This lesson idea came from art teacher Lauralee Chambers (insta account is @2art.chambers)
We will create them using liquid watercolors,
salt, and black oil pastel on 80# 12×18” paper. More details to come!….
Here is a photo of my teacher example
2ND
GRADE
WARM/COOL
HAND WITH PATTERNS SKETCHBOOK COVERS
This lesson takes about 3-4 (40 minute) art classes.
So for this particular sketchbook cover drawing lesson, second grade students created a hand drawing using warm and cool colorswithpatterns.
Students first traced their hand and drew a pattern inside their hand. Then they drew a different pattern in the background filling in the entire page.
After outlining with a black sharpie, they colored inside their hand using only warm colors, and colored in their background using only cool colors with markers.
Although unfinished, this design is quite impressive for 2nd grade!
MONSTERS – 2ND GRADE
Second graders had a blast creating these super adorable silly
monsters!
On day one (of two) for this lesson, students drew a simple monster head shape with two pointy parts for ears, on their chosen 9×12″ colored construction paper background with pencil. They then dipped the edge of a 2″x4″ piece of thin cardboard into black paint and “stamped” short black lines along the edge and within their monster to create texture for fur. These were left to dry until the next class.
On the second day of the lesson, students then cut out their
monsters, leaving a little color around the edge and glued onto a 12×12″ piece
of black construction paper.
They added big eyes with punched out white paper circles and smaller punch-outs from black paper for the pupils, then cut their own mouth and fangs!
I LOVE all the different expressions! Thank you @mrsallainart (via Instagram) for the inspiration!
POSITIVE/ NEGATIVE HANDS -2ND GRADE
For this lesson, students learned about positive and negative space in artwork and
used their previous knowledge (from their sketchbook cover lesson) on warm and
cool colors to create this colorful vibrant painting.
First, students painted a 9×12″ paper using either onlywarm colors, only cool colors, using liquid watercolors.
On the second day of the lesson, they traced their hand on the
back of their painting using pencil, then using scissors, cut a line going up
to their palm and carefully cut out their hand as one piece and set it aside.
They took the remaining paper with the hand cut out, and glued
down to the left side of a sheet of 12×18″ black construction paper, being sure
to line up the edges.
Students then folded the positive cut out of their hand in half and drew a half circle (or any other half shape) in the middle, cut out and glued to the center.
The remaining hand with the shape cut from its center was then
glued to the right side of the black paper.
This lesson will take about 3 to 4 (40 minute) art classes to complete.
This is also a NEW art lesson this year! This lesson was inspired by art teachers Art Room Britt and Lauralee Chambers (insta account is @2art.chambers)
2nd graders have already started these adorable bears with loads and loads of texture for fur and can’t wait to share their finished results!! They are doing an amazing job creating them so far!
We will incorporate some math in the mix when creating our patterned sweaters using dice as well!
Here are my teacher examples below
Here are some photos of my 2nd grade students creating their bears!
I’ll post finished bears with further details on how we created them once students complete them very soon!
1ST
GRADE
LINES
THAT WIGGLE SKETCHBOOK COVERS
So for this particular sketchbook cover drawing lesson, first graders drew overlapping, loopy lines to create an abstract drawing.
Students drew 8 loopy lines from one side of their paper to another in pencil. I encouraged them to draw large loops so it wouldn’t be too time consuming when it was time to color. Lines could overlap one another and I pointed out while demonstrating, that when a line connects it creates a shape! Plenty of shapes were created once the 8 loopy, overlapping lines were drawn. Students then went over all their lines with a thick black sharpie, then colored in each shape carefully with different colored markers. I demonstrated how to use larger markers for larger areas to fill in and thin tipped markers for smaller areas. Students were encouraged to fill in all the white spaces on their paper. 1st graders learned that artist’s use sketchbooks to plan out ideas for paintings or other artwork, to jot down ideas and other information, to experiment before making final decisions and to practice their drawing.
When students finished their covers, they practiced drawing other types of lines that we talked about inside their sketchbook
PUMPKINS STARRY NIGHT – 1ST GRADE
This
lesson takes 3 (40 minute) art classes to finish
On day 1 of the lesson, students looked at a slideshow
of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings and
learned about his life and artwork. We took a close look at his painting “The Starry Night” and noticed that he
used lots and lots of short lines painted
close together in certain directions, to create a sense of movement!
Then students got to work creating their own Van Gogh inspired
masterpieces with a pumpkin!
Students followed along with me for the first steps, as I
demonstrated under a document camera.
They traced a pumpkin using a cardboard cut-out along the bottom
of their 12×18” paper. Students held their paper vertically rather than horizontally, so they would have more
room on their paper to create the starry sky.
Students then drew a line for the ground, a crescent or full moon
and small circles for stars with pencil. They then drew lines
in the pumpkins stem, and curved
lines inside the pumpkin. Students could then add a face
for their pumpkin if they wanted to.
Students then took both a yellow and a green crayon in one hand
and drew lines using both colors at the same time, all along the bottom for the
grass texture making sure to press
really hard as they drew.
They colored in the moon and stars with yellow, and outlined all
the lines within their pumpkin and stem with whatever colors they wanted,
making sure to continue pressing hard.
For a final step with the crayons, just like Van Gogh did with
his brush, students drew lots of short dashed lines with yellow, circling
all around each star. Then with blue crayon drew more dashed lines all throughout the
sky curving around their stars to create a sense of movement!
On day 2, students continued adding dashed yellow lines around the stars and dashed blue lines in the sky with crayons.
On day 3, students learned the crayon wax resist painting technique! They painted their pumpkin, grass and sky any color they wanted but each a different color, using liquid watercolor paint and learned how the waxy crayon resists the watercolors. 1st graders also learned how to properly clean their brush before selecting a different color and to not mix colors within the paint trays.
NOT SO SCARY SCARECROW COLLAGE – 1ST GRADE
This lesson takes about 3 (40 minute) art
classes
For this lesson, students
learned what a landscape is, and looked at various
landscape paintings by the artists Vincent Van Gogh, David Hockney, and
Grant Wood.
They then created their own landscapes by drawing rolling hills with different types of lines within each hill, a few clouds and a sun either setting, or up in the sky, with crayons.
On day two, they painted over their hills and sky, creating a crayon wax-resist technique using watercolors.
On day three, students created a scarecrow using little cardboard shirts, pants, and skirt tracers (that I made previously) onto different cut patterned papers, raffia for arms, buttons and glued them onto their landscapes.
For a final touch, students added additional details with sharpies and crayons, like hats, hair, facial details, and crows.
WINTER LANDSCAPES – 1ST GRADE
This is a
NEW art lesson for my 1st graders this year! I’m in love with the
colorful trees and think my students will love them too.
We will
begin this lesson after finishing up the “Not So Scary Scarecrows” very soon!
We will use colorful tissue paper cut into small sections, watered down white school glue, 12×18” 80# white drawing paper, rulers to draw the triangles for trees, black colored pencils, black construction paper, and toothbrushes dipped into watered down white tempera paint for creating snowflakes!
Here is my teacher example below
I’ll post more details with student artwork once they finish the Winter Landscape lesson very soon!
SPECIAL EDUCATION
THE DOT
Students watched an animated video of the book “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds. After the video they dipped their finger into various colored tempera paints on plates and printed their finger either all around a pre-drawn circle or within it. We created these on 12×12” 80# paper.
MARKER PRINTS – SPECIAL ED
Students each
received a small piece of Styrofoam printing sheet and drew straight
overlapping lines using a colored pencil. Then colored in each shape with
different colored markers.
On a separate 9×12” 80# piece of paper, I sprayed water and wiped gently with a damp sponge. The colored Styrofoam was placed (colored side down) onto the wet paper and students pressed with their hands to transfer the image. Students loved seeing this cool process!
TISSUE PAPER PUMPKINS – SPECIAL ED
Students created these gorgeous pumpkin collages using liquid watercolor, tissue paper, watered-down white school glue, pre-cut leaves from sponges and liquid tempera paint!
On day 1 of the lesson, students traced a pumpkin using a cardboard
tracer onto 9×12″ paper. They then glued on orange, red, yellow and pink
squares of pre-cut tissue paper using a paintbrush and watered down glue. They
brushed on a second layer of glue once a piece of tissue was placed on. They
used a brown piece for the pumpkin’s stem.
On a second sheet of 12×18″ paper, students painted a turquoise
sky with liquid watercolor paint. (Very vibrant!)
On day 2 of the lesson, students cut out their pumpkins and
glued onto the sky painting. They then glued on cut strips of various green and
yellow tissue paper for the grass using watered down school glue and a
paintbrush.
For the final step, they sponged on leaves in the sky by lightly
dipping a pre-cut sponge in the shape of a leaf into a plate of drizzled red,
yellow and orange liquid tempera paint, then gently pressed onto the sky to
create falling leaves!
Students then used a small balloon to dip into paint to create the caterpillars body on a sheet of 12×18” 80# paper.
We left that to dry and worked on creating
the apple. Students each received a 9×12” 80# sheet with a pre-drawn apple.
They glued on layers of red and pink tissue paper with watered down white school
glue within the apple shape, then a small rectangle of brown tissue for the
apple’s stem. We left these to dry as well until the following week.
Day 2- Students cut out the caterpillar’s
body and glued down with a glue stick onto a piece of 12×18” blue construction
paper. Then, they glued on green and yellow strips of tissue paper all along
the bottom overlapping the caterpillar a bit for the grass using a glue stick.
Lastly, students added cut white circles for
the eyes and added legs and antennae with black sharpie.
BATS – SPECIAL ED
For these fun fingerprint bats, I taped down 3 bat shapes with a few loops of scotch tape on the back onto a sheet of 12×18″ black construction paper.
Students printed their fingerprints that were dipped into yellow, orange and white paint all around the bats edges. Once dry, the white paper bats that were taped down were taken off, revealing the 3 bat silhouettes.
SNOWY OWL COLLAGE – SPECIAL ED
This lesson took 2 (40 minute) art classes to
finish
Students were each given a piece of 12×18″ black construction
paper, that had a pre-drawn white outline image of a snowy owl landing on a
branch.
Students added the bark by tearing small pieces of brown
construction paper then glued each piece filling the entire tree branch. They
then tore white paper into small sections for the feathers in the body of the
owl. Then added cut yellow circles for the eyes and a black cut triangle for
the beak.
As a final step, students added details with crayons to the tree
branches and sky.
I love the texture the torn white paper gives the owls!
CHECK BACK SOON FOR NEW
POSTS ON ALL THE NEW ART LESSONS UNDERWAY!
This lesson took (2) art classes to finish (and I had JUST enough time to squeeze in one more lesson before the end of the year)! It’s a simple one —but packs in a bunch! It incorporates the Elements of Art- Line, Shape, Color, Value and Texture! We also used overlapping, contrast and pattern in our work! Students could choose between creating a bunny, bear cub or fox.
Read below the photos of student’s artwork to see how they were created and how to get FREE bunny and bear templates!
The fox template was clearly the most adored by my 2nd graders!
DAY 1 – Creating the field of flowers background!
Students drew flowers all over their 9×12″ 80# drawing paper using markers and crayons. They were encouraged to draw the flower heads LARGE and draw LOTS!! Especially along the top and sides, since later on the animal would be placed over their painting in the center.
I
demonstrated a bunch of different ways to create the flowers first, but
students could draw them any way they wanted! I also encouraged them to use
bright colors.
Once their paper was filled, they drew green stems from each flower head going all the way to the bottom, using a green crayon as well as a green marker for each one.
Once
all the flowers and stems were drawn, using just water on a paintbrush, they went over each
flower with water. This turns the marker into almost a watercolor consistency.
I showed them how to just do one flower at a time then rinse their brush before
moving onto the next so the colors wouldn’t get muddy.
Then students went over all their stems with water. The crayon part of the stems would remain a solid line since crayons resist water. We talked about the Element of Art “Value” and how the colors of the flowers would get softer and lighter in value once water was applied.
DAY 2 – Adding the animal!
Students chose a bunny, bear OR fox template to start drawing lines with sharpie to add TEXTURE!
I downloaded and photocopied the free bunny template from a website called Teachstarter found HERE . I created the bear one myself and made copies for kids, which you can get for free on my Teachers Pay Teachers page HERE. The fox template was created by an art teacher (Mrs. Bohn from McLeansville Elementary Art, via Instagram) who shared her fox drawing template with me!
I demonstrated how to draw straight and diagonal lines close
together in between each section using sharpie. Students could leave the eye
area as it was, or go over the bunny lashes and create longer lines. We
discussed how the lines created fur- like TEXTURE.
We also discussed how the black & white vs. the colorful flower background
would create CONTRAST.
Once all the lines were drawn, students carefully cut out their animals and glued onto their flower background with a glue stick!
I just LOVE how simple yet beautiful this lesson is! Plus, kids continue to understand how they are applying the elements of art while creating!
Thank you for stopping by! To view other grade level artwork, click on the drop down menu on the main page, and select a grade to view more student art!
I will be posting again next week on 5th Grade “Grid Drawings” inspired by artist Chuck Close, and 4th Grade “Enlarged Flower drawings” inspired by artist Georgia O’Keeffe!
