Paul Cezanne Inspired Still-Lifes

January's Artist of the Month was Paul Cezanne so my Second Grade Class looked at a bunch of his artwork.  I explained that he was famous for his still-lifes.  

The first thing we started with was the background.  We made our line separating the Wall from the table.  The Wall was made doing a crayon resist.  The students used Crayons to draw a design on their Wall and then painted on top using watercolors.  If you have never done this before what happens is, the wax from the crayon repels the watercolors, causing the crayon to show through and the watercolor paint to fill in the empty spaces creating a nice effect.  

The table was created using actual fabric.  

100 Days of School!

To Celebrate the 100th day of School, I had my third graders do a Group Project.  I'm always a little apprehensive about group projects because there's more of a chance of mess and high volume but I was extremely impressed with my third grade class!  

 

I had the students split into groups of four and then delivered a tray filled with 100 items to each table.  I explained to the students that they would be doing a collage and the only rule was that all 100 items had to be included in some way.  

 The students were given markers, scissors, glue and tape and were told to get to work!!