Winter Chickadees

Here are some beautiful pieces of artwork created by my second grade class.

Owls & Fireflies

Do you remember the book, Sam and the Firefly? Well, it's an oldie for sure...

It was one of my favorite books as a child. The pictures were so much fun in my eyes. I loved how the story took place at night and how the illustrator used dark pages with bright yellow to show the glow of the moon, eyes, and fire fly. I remember my grandmother reading it to me. I came aross it and decided to share it with my kinders. Then, we did a fun crayon resist project, drawing owls and fire flies and then painting over it with a cool glowy, nighttime, green watercolor paint. 

I think they are adorable, and love the bright yellow moons, owl eyes,  and fire fly bottoms!

I know school has been over for a bit, but I just came across these pictures on my computer and decided to share.

I hope all my fellow art teachers are enjoying (or enjoyed, if you are back already) their summer. I have one month left! Looking forward to hearing about all your fabulous lessons and hope to be sharing more of mine as I look to the fall.

Bright Beautiful Birds by First Grade

I love these bird pictures created by my first grade artists. They colored the birds with crayons and used water color paints for the skies. I like all the different colored skies they painted, each so unique. We used good quality 12"x18" white paper and it held the paint well. Some of them decided to draw worms hanging from the beaks of their birds. They are such colorful pictures! So pleasant to look at. Great work first grade!

Crazy Cool Cats!! by 3rd grade

These cats are cool! The third grade designed these cat heads using oil pastels. They are pretty abstract.  I love them! They really enjoyed coming up with designs for their cats!! You may have seen them hanging outside the 3rd grade room.

A while back they also completed a project that focused on overlapping in a picture. They designed their own birds while overlapping them on 12"x18" drawing paper. They colored them in using art sticks. Here are some of the results...