Eye See!

This is a great one day project.  We always start each year with portraits (well...after the collaborative project)....so this is a great next project.  It is a one day"er" too!! I start by giving each student a quarter sheet of paper to build upon.  We talk about covering the paper, having a different color for the eyelid, making sure to grab white & black, and then three other colors that will make up the iris.  We had discussed drawing an eye when doing our portraits, and I showed them how to transfer that eyedea (see what I did there ha ha  corny dad jokes for days people!!) over to collage.  Some struggled, but over all I thought these turned out pretty successful/fun!  

 

More Kindergarten Snow People

I just can't get enough of the kindergarten snow people! I hope you are enjoying them too! 

Collage Bodies & Construction Paper Details

Kindergarten Snow People

 I love my kindergarteners! They have grown so much already this year. We've been working on cutting & gluing skills a good bit.  I think their snow people turned out absolutely adorable!

Winged Creatures in Collage

I gave the students a second day to work on their collage. After the first day they just felt unfinished, plus, I knew we were going to be taking our characters from the collage and turning them into main characters for a narrative drawing. I wanted the students to spend extra time with this so they felt more at ease creating a story to go with them. 

 

Winged Creature Collages

 The prompt I gave my students was to create a wing creature in flight.  We discussed what could be a "creature".  They decided it could be an animal, imaginary creature, food monsters, robot, or a person.  Here are some of the amazing pictures they created. I think they are incredibly fun!! 

Paint Sticks & Collage

 Today my students created a character using paint sticks ( Sargent Art ) & collage.  Since we've been back in person, I've really tried to do projects that use supplies we just weren't able to use during virtual.  They LOVE the paint sticks.  I had them create a "character" and simple background using the paint sticks.  They could use food items, objects around home or school, or even clothing items.  I told them not to make the face though.  We would be creating the face and any additional items using collage.  I think their pictures turned out super cute.  

One of the reasons I had them use collage for the face is because my students sometime struggle cutting out circular objects.  I believe part of this is because they no long use scissors in the classroom to do cut & match activities like they use to do. (like matching words or placing vocabulary in a sentence)  That coupled with the fact that many do not do crafty/arty things at home as much as they once did....we have some struggles in the scissor skills department!! 

Dino School Pictures: 2nd Grade

In our ongoing dinosaur unit (in preparation for our dinosaur themed all school art show), second grade created dino school pictures. I may have them go back into them to add a bit more detail, but they're pretty cute after the first class time working on them! 

Collage Dinosaurs: 2nd Grade

After reviewing "all the things" in regard to collage & landscapes....my 2nd graders began creating their dinosaurs "on location".  We did the BIG STUFF on the first day of this project, and then made sure all the details were AMAZING on day two.  

Kindergarten Leaves

I read the book, Autumn's First Leaf to begin my class. It not only touches on fall themes, but emotions as well.we have done collage before...so I reviewed safety with scissors, proper glue use, and size expectations. After students completed their work, they were responsible for cleaning up their areas and putting away their collage supplies. We then had a descussion about emotions. I had them make the face of the emotion they said & then tell me how they could draw it. I would demo of my document camera what they were saying. This gave the glue time to dry enough that they would be able to draw and color on their leaves.  I felt they turned out great. So expressive!

Under The Sea Collage: 3rd Grade

3rd Grade created under water landscapes in collage this past week.  I was really excited by some of the ideas the kids came up with .  I do see a need for my students to be cutting & gluing more though.  There were many kids that seemed to still be struggling with the fine motor skills needed for such projects (and beyond).  Here are some of the awesome works students created!