In this blog post, I thought I would share a link to each and every one of these lessons you see! This will give you an idea of what projects I teach (2D, that is) throughout the year. If you are interested in details on this art show: how it's hung, who does the hangin', how it's taken down and sent home, then you might want to watch this tour I created to answer those questions for you:
Let's take a tour of theses projects! We'll start with kindergarten. My kindergarteners always have the biggest amount of artwork because their lessons are shorter. I started the beginning of the year with my lessons on line. Those projects did not make it to the art show as they were sent home at the start of the school year. From there, we did the rainbow lesson and Mouse Paint project.
One of the more popular lessons for kindergarten on my blog is this one. This lesson is always followed by my Chicka Chicka Boom Boom project which you can find here.
Our snowmen were a lot of fun to create this year too. We learned all about the cold colors and painting spiral lines.
A new lesson I came up with this year were the heart prints. We were able to get many prints created and used our two favorites for our work of art.
With our printing plates, we created these beauties! Super fun and stunning!
The kindergarten gallery is almost always my favorite!
Although first grade sure does take a close second. Let's talk about their projects. One of my favorites this year were our Mad Scientists!
A classic that we've done many years in a row are our Royal Self-Portraits. I love that we have two selfies in this art show: one as royalty and one as kid-genius. Perfect for my kids!
We also did those heart weavings that you see with the stitched edge. With the heart we cut out from our construction paper for the weaving, we created these Romero Britto inspired pieces. You can see a variation of that lesson here.
All of the artwork and the kids who created them make me this happy.
The big penguins you see were created from this lesson here.
Let's move on down to second grade! These kids had many works of art both in the Glow and Pirate Gallery that their wall seems a little empty. Don't let that fool you: we are always crankin' out some art!
Our Super Hero Selfies can be found here while our Chris Uphues Hearts are here.
This printmaking lesson is one of our favorites. We seem to improve up on it each year!
And this lesson is from my String and Stitch Lab for Kids book! Check it out!
It's a pretty colorful hallway!
Speaking of, let's move on down to third grade! You'll notice these kids also did the Chris Uphues lesson...in fact, all of my students did as it was a sub plan.
One lesson of mine that was especially popular was the landscape project! I had run out of paper (omg, an art teacher without PAPER, hello!) and had a lot of cardboard pizza rounds...so we improvised!
The kids also created those amazing Sandra Silberzweig-inspired self portraits!
My students did two kinds of weaving, tree weaving and circle weaving. Two kid favorites. These are also featured in my new book!
One lesson that I'll be sharing soon is this one! If you can't wait, then check out this blog post as this lesson is a variation.
This third grade display brings me so much happiness!
My fourth graders spent the start of their school year making pillows! We made pizza, donut and emoji pillows, all of which are in my sewing book.
One of my favorite lessons this year was our Snow Globe project!
While planning our snow globes, we made tiny paintings that we later used for our marble still life lesson.
Our Fauve-style self portraits were a lot of fun to create too.
Hi Cassie, thanks so much for sharing! Do you put some masking tape on the wall as well as the back of the art, or do you hot glue directly on the wall? The work your kiddos do is AMAZING.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing all these ideas! For the black glue, I know you use Glue All instead of School Glue. I inherited about 3 gallons of school glue and don't want to trash it (probably makes great slime). Is there a way to thicken the school glue so it doesn't spread as much?
ReplyDeleteIn fact, it looks like it was a great school year! You and your kids did it again! As a teacher, I highly appreciate your explanations on the whole process, from the beginning to the end. Thanks, thanks, thanks! ¡¡¡GRACIAS!!!
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