Wilting Colorful Sunflowers by Fifth Grade

These were inspired by some beautiful sunflower art I found online. I love the way they came out. The fifth grade artists did a great job blending the oil pastels together.

"Dragons" by Grade 5

Love these dragons drawn by my 5th grade artists. I drew some sample dragon parts on the board, wings, claws, horns, spikes, fire, smoke, etc… I also drew a sample dragon picture. They were given the option of using a simple head-shape tracer and then adding on, if they were not comfortable drawing the head. I think the came out great!

"Polar Bears Under the Northern Lights" by Grade 5

I love these! Big thanks to Mary and her Marymaking art blog. Here is a link to her lesson that inspired me,  http://marymaking.blogspot.com/2011/12/polar-bears-with-northern-lights.html.

The fifth grade worked so hard on these and it was wonderful to see them so excited about a project. It took 1.5 art classes to complete. They are now hanging in the hallway just past the office ready for viewing. Come check them out!

Here are some you can check out right now...

"Christmas Houses" by Fifth Grade

Here are some lovely houses the fifth grade decorated for Christmas. They all started with the same basic shape and were encouraged to add on to it. Then they added all kinds of Christmas decorations. I told them to think about their own houses or houses they have seen while driving around. After they finished adding all the decorations, they filled in any Christmas details with marker, while coloring in the rest with crayons. We talked about pressing lightly on the crayons to get a soft, even color. They did a nice job.

They are very sweet...

"The White House" (how cute!)