Collage Snowmen by Grade 3

Love these collage snowmen that the 3rd grade created. I have been doing them for quite a few years now and every years I am so pleased with the results. They have a tissue paper background applied with liquid starch. When it is dry, they paint over it with tempra paint. Love them!

"Winter Birch Trees" by 8th grade

      I found this lesson on Deep Space Sparkle blog a few years ago, and have been doing it with my 8th grade students ever since. Since then, I have seen many blogs do posts on the same project and I'm always interested in seeing how they do it. Often, teachers make small changes as they go and the project comes out a little different for each class.
     For example, this year, instead of leaving the snow area on their paper pure white, my students added a wash of the lightest purple watercolor we could make. We combined water with a few drops of purple liquid water color paint to achieve the super light color. I love the way it changed the overall look of the artwork. I did keep the tissue paper sky in the background, but one of my students missed class the week before, so I gave him some materials and said, "See what you can do!" His came out great!! You will be able to tell his apart from the others. It is the only one with a painted, solid blue sky. It makes me think I might need to create a spin-off lesson for another grade.
Here are some of the finished ones...

"Collage Snowmen" by Third Grade

How beautiful are these snowmen? I absolutely love all the bright colors. They put down a layer of tissue paper and painted a white snowman on it. After it dried, they painted all the details onto their snowmen. I love how you can see a little bit of the tissue paper color through the white paint.

Here are some finished pieces of artwork...