Spooky Trees

My third grade class at Sweet Apple ES did this Spooky Trees lesson.  It was a great value lesson.  They had to paint a value scale in circles for the background.  Then, we studied the shape of trees.  They did a contour drawing of a tree on black paper, cut it out and glued it over their value painting.  They loved this lesson!  They turned out great!

First Grade: Mexican Plates

My First Grade classes made Mexican Plate Collages.  They also studied Mexico to prepare the students for the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibition coming to the High Museum in February. The students looked at the colorful Fiber Art, specifically rugs, that come from Mexico to get ideas for their placemats.  They drew patterns with oil pastels and painted over their patterns with tempera cakes to create a paint resist for their placemats.  Then, they painted something from nature as the emphasis for the plates.  They used oil pastels to draw a line pattern behind their emphasis.  Next, they traced a circle on their painted paper and another on a plain colored paper.  They cut them out and glued their plate design on the the plain paper to make the plate.  Finally, they glued the plate on the placemat.  Fantastic!

Kindergarten created a Bug on a Rug collage.  They studied Mexico to prepare the students for the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibition coming to the High Museum in February.  The students looked at the colorful Fiber Art, specifically rugs,  that come from Mexico.  They made their rug out of paper, oil pastels, and tempera cake paints.  They used a paint resist technique.  In the first unit they studied lines, shapes, color, and patterns.  They had to use lines to create a pattern for their rug.  Then, we talked about how there are shapes all around us.  They looked at bug pictures to see what kind of shapes they could find.  They used shapes to make their bug out of construction paper.  Finally, they glued their bug onto the rug.  They turned out great!

Fish Bowl Collages Inspired by: Henri Matisse and Eric Carle

My first grade students studied Henri Matisse, specifically looking at his Fish Bowl painting.  They learned how he created collages out of painted paper like Eric Carle.  He called it "drawing with scissors."  The students painted large sheets of paper.  We talked about color mixing and color schemes.  They used the painted paper to cut out the shapes for their Fish Bowl collages. 

Post by: Jane Delmastro from Ms. McDaniel's 1st Grade Class

I had to cut out some shapes to make a beautiful collage.

 Display at Manning Oaks Elementary

1st Grade Owl Collages

My first grade students studied an Inuit artist that creates artwork of animals from her environment.  The first graders had to do an observational drawing of an owl.  They mixed and used neutral colors to paint the feathers on the owl.  They used sharpie marker to add details in the feathers and face.  Finally, they painted a night background to glue their owl on.  They did a fantastic job.

4th Grade: Tissue Paper Collage

My 4th grade students at Findley Oaks created tissue paper collages inspired by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. She creates beautful flower paintings, so the students used flowers as their subject. They tore tissue paper to create the flowers and painted the background with watercolors. They are great!

The 1st graders at Findley Oaks studied Eric Carle. They created animal collages by painting paper and cutting out shapes to create their animal. WOW!