Monster Collage: 3rd Grade

 I'm at a new school and my students had very little experience with things other than paper & pencil.  I'm trying to provide as many "experiences" as possible.  I felt like they did such an amazing job, and they truly seemed to enjoy creating these works.  

Student Sketches for Yard Sign Monsters

Some of you wanted to see the drawings the students created that inspired the yard sign monsters! 

Small changes may have been made in a few of them, but for the most part they were created as close as possible to the original design! 

Yard Sign Monsters Almost Finished!

 Here is a super fun collaborative project we've been working on since last nine weeks!  It is almost done & I can't wait to share it with you all!!  STAY TUNED! 

Emotion Monsters: Kindergarten

I was teaching my kindergarten students about "expression" in art.  We talked about this in relation to mood/emotion.  The students enjoyed making faces at each other...attempting to show MAD/HAPPY/SAD/ANGRY/SCARED.  We discussed what the face "did" to express emotion.  We also discussed colors and how they related to mood/emotion.  

Each student was given a 12x12 piece of white paper & a diffuser circle.  They were instructed to trace the circle onto the white paper.  They then placed the circle out of the way & created an emotion monster.  Students then took their circle and drew lines of color on the diffuser circle using water based markers.  I then sprayed their papers with water.  The following week they got both the paper and the circle back.  We created a second monster with the diffuser circle itself on black paper.  Students used construction paper crayons to finish the monster from the previous week....and they used construction paper crayons & collage to finish the new one.  

Emotion Monsters: 1st Grade

We were looking at how color/line/shape impact the emotion/mood of a piece of art in Picasso's work.

We took the idea of color/line/shape & emotion....and created these collage monster faces(using construction paper crayon's to add a little extra somethin' somethin'!!! ha ha).  Kids loved making faces at each other as they talked about how eyes/mouth and other parts of your face change when expressing an emotion!  Hopefully this will carry over into other work!

Completed Ugly Dolls: 4th Grade

I LOVE MY JOB!  

These Ugly Dolls make me happy!!  The kids are having so much fun adding the details & sewing on the hair.  In the spring I'm planning on having the 4th grade create pictures by sewing buttons onto fabric.  I really want them to not only leave me with a strong art background, but a life skill that they will take with them forever.  If ya didn't realize this...sewing is a lost art/skill!!!

Day 2 of the Ugly Dolls: 4th Grade

Day 2 of our Ugly Doll project produced some great progress!!  I am allowing them to have one more day to finish adding face/arms/legs and hair (they'll sew the yarn hair in if time allows).  

Painted Monsters: Kindergarten

Today I read Glad Monster/Sad Monster to my kindergarten students. Fun book with super cute illustrations.  I then had my students create 12x18 monsters.  They were asked to use simple patterns.  The main focus of the lesson was the techniques of watercolor..and most did a great job!