sneak peek of our 1st grade art mural... FISH in the OCEAN!

Take a look at our incredibly creative and lovely art created by 1st graders! I have started with the 1st grade (80+ kids) this year for our school collaborative art murals that decorate the halls.  Each class has spent a little over an hour drawing and painting acrylic on tissue paper(Eric Carle inspired) to create:

1. Fish and Sea Creatures

&

2. Ocean Water

I can't wait to see when it's all together! I'll keep you posted... There will be many more coming!

Aren't these so adorable?

(ages 6-7 years old)

 

Animals! Oil Pastel & Watercolor (dividing into shapes) - Summer Art Class

In this art project/exercise the kids drew their favorite "animal" and then divided it up into shapes and the background too if they wanted. You can see the different interpretations of the assignment! Different ages, different perspectives! Each one of them are completely different. Some used many colors to divide into shapes and others just one or two...

See our other watercolor and oil pastel projects here: "Oil Pastels with Watercolors (doodle shapes)!- Summer Art Class"

• First they did a pencil drawing on water color paper.
• Then they traced their drawing with a variety of oil pastels.
• Last they water colored inside the shapes to make the colors pop!

(ages 6-10 years) 

Oil pastels generally repel water colors - you can see it in the water bubbles. 

Gorgeous GLUE BATIK on Canvas! - Summer Art Class

GLUE BATIK ON CANVAS was my favorite summer art project with the kids, and the kids had to give it their all! 

This art class consisted of 18 kids (5 years - 10 years old) and 5 days of ART PROJECTS...

For the first Summer Art Class, we had an art show where they were able to show their parents all of their own & other students' artwork and then take theirs home. It was so busy, I was lucky to get photos! 

Follow this link for:

Simple Glue Batiking {tutorial} on Canvas.

 Paintings drying on the rack after the glue has been washed off the canvas (in my new art studio!)

 Our fun little art show before the "crowds" came!

And now... The Artwork! (almost all)

Amazing Glue Batik

Amazing Art

Amazing Kids

An Amazing Summer

the HAND TREE -Hand Art- 4rth grade

So... I am excited to catch up and post all of the last 4 months of art projects. I was so tired by the end of the school year trying to finish up so many projects that I didn't even have the spec of desire to post them- probably due to the fact that I pay for high-speed, but don't actually have it... So posting them takes longer than it should. Blah.

Yay! Here is another wonderful collaborative HAND ART project that I made up for the 4rth-graders. They get to "leave their mark" before they head over to middle school next year as 5th-graders.

Materials Needed:

• hands to trace!
• thick card stock
• acrylic paint
• brushes
• Mod Podge
• pre-painted (acrylic) background of a tree on a pre-stretched canvas or a wood board (similar to the ones I make for all of my school projects- go here to see "How to make your own WOOD CANVAS").

Here's how we did it:

• Each of the kids traced and cut out their hands on card stock.

• Then they drew with pencil their design and then painted their hand with acrylic. (Help: I find if they don't draw it first with pencil and go straight to painting it turns into a paint mess) 

They look so bright and a blast of colors! Each hand is soooo unique!

• We let them dry overnight and then flattened hands in books for 24 hours.

• I started to adhere one group by group of hands with Mod Podge (apply Mod Podge to the canvas not the hands), then laid plastic wrap on top of hands, and then books on top to keep them flattened. It takes about 20+ minutes to safely dry and go on to the next group of hands. 

• The finish will be shinny and a little bumpy from the plastic wrap. Try to flatten out before placing books on top and drying. 

• Add an overall coat of Mod Podge to seal and protect the artwork.

Seeing the kids examine and find their own hand and screaming like crazies, makes it all worth my time...

 oh hands...

The best concept about my elementary school projects is that you can make smaller versions of them at home with your kids or adapt them to any group of persons!

Have fun and try it!

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