Earth Day Posters

Here are some posters my students have made for Earth Day, coming up on Monday.  They loved painting their fingerprints onto the words.

  4th Grade

  3rd Grade

 6th Grade

Wish I got a closer pic of these.  Oh well.  They drew and colored God holding Earth and wrote this verse on the paper too.  
"Your faithfulness continues through all generations;
    you established the earth, and it endures." Psalm 119:90

I like the one with God riding a skateboard and holding Earth!

Christmas Art 2012 - RoundUp!

Here are the art lessons I had fun sharing with my students during the month of December.  I teach at a Christian school and December is a very special month.

Kinder/1st Grade painted a starry night sky and pasted this poem on the bottom (ha, not really pasted, we used glue sticks.....do they even make that thick smelly white paste I used as a kid soooooo many years ago?)

A bright star lit the heavens

To light the Magi's way

To the baby in the manger

Who was born on Christmas day

Materials used:

white construction paper

blue and white tempera paint

q-tips for white stars

yellow construction paper stars

2nd Grade made poinsettia flowers and glued this poem at the bottom:

At Christmas as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ

Let's keep in mind the truth of Christmas Day

It's our gift of love to others, in every way

Materials used:

construction paper

we also used scrapbook paper for added interest in the green leaves

glue & glitter

3rd/4th grade made these awesome Moulding Trees and you can find more info. here.

5th grade painted angels.

They drew in pencil, outlined with black crayon, and painted with watercolors.

And Lastly 6th grade made Mini Manger Silhouettes.

We used canvas and acrylics.  Students did a practice silhouette first on paper same size as canvas.

Moulding Christmas Trees

This year our wonderful 4th grade teacher at my school found a "Moulding Christmas Tree" in Sunset magazine and asked if I'd help her students each make one.  She and her husband did all the legwork, so it was piece of cake for me.  All I had to do was help students paint the branches.

These are the measurements we used:

Branches are 5 pieces of moulding @ 8", 7", 6", 5", and 4"

Then the top is a small piece of moulding (as shown), or it can be a small triangle of wood.

The trunk is a 1"x1" piece of wood, 18" tall.

The base is 16" across.

Branches were glued on with hot glue and base was attached with screws.

The kids were so proud of their creations!!

Doodle Fish

Art Project Girl found a great page in an old art book that had a simple doodle drawing of fish, and I'm grateful she shared it here.  Simple always grabs my attention!

Step 1: Loopy doodle ( I told the students no more than 8 loops on the page....you know what would've happened without the limit.)

 

Step 2:  Add tails and face, then color.

Here are the "Doodle Fish" created by 4th graders.

Fall Art

Super thanks to Gail from That Artist Woman for this "fall inchies" idea.  Ours are 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches sq., so technically not "inchies".  We spent 2, 45 min. sessions on this project and it really wasn't enough time.  I was rushing the students and they would've loved to have had more time to add more magazine cutout words.  Next time I'll do 3 sessions for sure.

Great Job NCCS 4th Graders!!