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art dish art dish wednesday september 25 2013 back to school project all hands on deck this year s back to school art project was for everyone in the building to trace their hand and then decorate it to tell about their selves they could include favorite hobbies subjects colors teams foods etc once they were cut out i assembled them into a large banner to display for back to school night everyone was excited to look for their hand here s a close up of some of the hands posted by d mellott at 7 37 am 145 comments thursday october 11 2012 fourth grade fundraiser idea khamsas hand designs worked great for the fourth grade fundraiser bright colorful and all look great posted by d mellott at 10 30 am 17 comments labels designs fourth grade khamsa patterns wednesday october 3 2012 owls third grade made owls for the fundraiser activity again excellent results sharpie and water color crayons posted by d mellott at 6 37 am 6 comments labels owls patterns third grade water color crayons fish add caption the pta signed us up for a fundraiser so i ve been working on that the last few weeks i ve tried over the years to find projects for the children that are bright colorful and have a really high rate of success i ll post some of the things i am doing this year second grade did fish we drew them and then outlined with sharpies we used water color crayons for the color they are coming out beautiful very impressed posted by d mellott at 5 50 am 3 comments monday september 24 2012 contour line drawing 1 show an example of a contour line drawing explain that you only draw the outline no details you must look at the object this is drawing from life not imagination 2 demonstrate the project 3 look at the gourds for about 30 seconds look at the shape and color place them in the middle of the table and do not move them 4 draw the gourd at least 5 times overlap them draw the ones closest to us large and the ones far away small you can draw more if you have extra time 5 add sharpie day 2 1 add colored pencil overlap the colors to make new colors really look at the gourds to see the color are they all yellow orange green 2 add watercolor you can use the watercolor to make shadows under the gourds what colors will work for shadows posted by ekwatson at 2 40 pm 2 comments labels 4th grade contour line fourth grade landscape line line drawings overlapping watercolors thursday september 13 2012 kandinsky colorweaver this is a great activity for students that finish work early instead of just a free draw this is from art projects for kids kandinsky colorweaver wassily kandinsky made a beautiful painting called color studies back in the early 1900 s that is fun to imitate with oil pastels instead of watercolor 1 distribute 9 x 12 pieces of art paper to students give them rulers to measure and draw pencil lines across the middle of the paper in both directions 2 ask the students to start in the center and with an oil pastel draw an angle and fill in the triangle that is created continue around the center with drawing triangles only changing colors each time 3 once a diamond is created add bands of color around the diamond always changing color on the pencil lines continue until the paper is filled with color this picture was made by a kindergartener in an afterschool class posted by ekwatson at 12 24 pm 1 comments labels abstract classroom management color symmetry wednesday september 5 2012 beginning of the year sorry it s been a while since we ve updated i m going to try to get it going again this year as an opening project i had everyone in the school create a self portrait i sent out emails to the staff and placed the paper in the staff s mailboxes the children created theirs in art class we colored them in and cut them out i actually cut out kindergarten since it was their first art lesson of the year it was interesting how many of the teachers tried to get creative when it came to turning their s in many had their friends children or co workers draw them i introduced the children to the where s waldo books yes introduced hard to believe so many had never heard of them i then glued all the self portraits on a large sheet of bulletin board paper with the principal as our waldo she was very prompt about turning her self portrait in and i might add did a great job on it needless to say our display is getting quite the response in the hallway it s been a fun way to start the year posted by d mellott at 9 37 am 2 comments labels self portrait where s waldo wednesday june 6 2012 monarch butterflies we wrote a grant at my school to build a butterfly habitat each class was given butterfly larvae to watch when they turned into butterflies they were put into the butterfly sanctuary outside the library interest was high on the subject of monarch butterflies my second grade students first drew the butterflies in pencil and colored with orange black and white crayon the next week they used oil pastels and watercolor paint for the background the paintings were beautiful in the hallway next to the library and i ended up with a great lesson on teaching symmetry in nature posted by janis gillespie at 7 39 am 0 comments wednesday february 15 2012 hearts with tints and shades i have fourth grade students divide their paper into 1 4 s and trace a heart in each section i teach a lesson on tints shades and also complementary colors we used tempera paint cakes to paint them i let them decide how to paint the hearts and background but encourage them to try a few tints shades or a complementary color combination it could also be used with patterns posted by janis gillespie at 1 20 pm 1 comments labels february hearts 4th grade my family kindergarten students end up with a red heart to give away and a heart framed drawing of their family to take home i fold red paper and pre draw 1 2 of a heart for them they cut on the line open it up and are amazed that they have a perfect heart they decorate their heart or write a message we glue the heart frame to white paper and they draw their family so sweet posted by janis gillespie at 1 13 pm 2 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom translate welcome welcome to our art blog we are all art teachers and wanted some place to share our successful projects if you are an art teacher and would like to contribute please let us know we d love to add you as an author about me caitlin kell lofaro d mellott janis gillespie mary lou meredithstalker rebecca behring sarah r susan hill tricia atkinson ekwatson jmanfre lindsay charest sharmon blog archive 2013 1 september 1 back to school project 2012 17 october 3 september 3 june 1 february 4 january 6 2011 52 december 6 november 3 october 4 september 9 august 6 may 2 april 1 march 8 february 5 january 8 2010 82 december 14 november 14 october 25 september 19 june 10 labels 1st grade 1 3rd grade 1 4th grade 2 aboriginal 1 abstract 3 andy warhol 1 animals 2 asansi the spider 1 background 1 bad case of stripes 1 banyan tree 1 big 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