Wood Slice Ornament Painting

This is the project I've been doing with my junior high classes the last week of school before the Christmas break. Wood slice ornaments!

I also offered this last year as a staff workshop. We had a lot of fun!

I bought wood slice ornaments from both Dolarama and Amazon. The Amazon ones were bigger but terrible. 50% of them cracked either the next day, or after they were painted. So 10/10 do not recommend unless you live in a humid climate, which I definitely do not. The Dollarama ones were great, though, with no splits.

Students used thin brushes, acrylic paints and some fine tip sharpies to paint these. 

Some finished Grade 7-9 ornaments:

 

Nutcracker Watercolour Paintings Art

My Grade 4-6 class are finishing up these adorably festive nutcracker watercolour paintings.

They had a choice to fold the paper and draw half of it and then trace it on the window to make it symmetrical OR to freehand the whole things.

We used the fantastic handouts from Art Projects for Kids to help with proportions. 

Then they outlines everything using a black prismacolor pencil.

Then, they had the choice of watercolours, markers or pencil crayons to colour their nutcracker. 95% chose watercolours. 

Once dry, they were carefully cut out. 

While their nutcrackers were drying, they painted 

white diagonal lines with tempera onto 12 x 16" red construction paper.

And they also painted snow on a small sheet of blue paper.

They glued their nutcracker onto the 'snow' paper, then onto the candy cane paper for a border. 

Here are some of the finished artworks:

 

Gingerbread House Art Project

Some fun and festive gingerbread houses my Grade 4 - 6 students have been working on!

Sketch house on brown construction paper. 

Outline everything with a white acrylic paint pen. 

Paint any snow or rooftops with white tempera paint. 

Colour some details with coloured pencils. Glue on mini pom-poms for mini lights. 

Add on any extra decorations that you have!

Some finished work: