Line Sculptures

Kinders have talked a lot about lines this year.  Students reviewed the different lines we learned about and then created them in three dimensions!

Hide and Seek lines

Who doesn't love a good game of hide and seek?  Kindergarten played this game in the art room by drawing white lines and shapes on a white piece of paper (almost impossible to see!)  The following class we found our lines by using watercolor over the crayons to create a watercolor resist.

Dragons

First graders learned about Chinese New Year by reading the story PoPo's Lucky New Year.  We also studied the use of dragons in Chinese culture and New Years celebrations.  Students then used symmetry and collage to design their own amazing dragons!!

Eric Carle Sea Horse

1st graders listened to the story Mr. Seahorse by Eric Carle.  Students then used their special paper that explored color mixing to create their own sea horse like Eric Carles's illustations in his book.

Robot Blueprints

Kindergartners discovered a different kind of printmaking as they stamped pieces of cardboard onto their paper.  We discussed how blueprints are plans for something you would like to build.  Each student created their own blueprint for a robot.  We put the lines stamped from our cardboard together to create shapes for our robots head, neck, arms and legs.  We they finished our robots by using recycled objects to stamp buttons, eyes and mouths!

Living Seas!

After creating our ships in a bottle we looked at another maritime artist from the MFA -Winslow Homer and his painting The Fog Warning.  Students used VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies) to figure out what was happening in the painting and then we began to create our own rough seas.  Using papers we painted we covered cardboard with our blue paintings and created three dimensional waves.  Students learned how to curl, bend and twist their papers to create their seascape.  Once this step was complete we used our other painted paper to create a boat using origami.  Students decorated their ships with sails and flags.

 

Dream Catchers

Second Graders used paper plates and shapes to explore the concept of rotational symmetry.  When their designs were complete, we added color using markers.  Students then learned about the legend of Native American Dream Catchers.  These creations are placed above the bed to snare bad dreams in their web and let the good ones trickle down the feathers to the resting person below.  Student learned how to weave their own web and finished their art by attaching beads and feathers.