Halloween at Evans school!

Happy Halloween from the Specialist Team!!

Monsters in my closet!

Kindergarten read Go Away Big Green Monster and as I read, they pointed out different Geometric Shapes.  We then talked about all the shapes we saw that didn't have names like those wiggly arms and the squiggly nose.  Those are called Organic Shapes.  

1st Grade Tissue Box Monsters

It is rare that I repeat art lessons but boy do I love these tissue box monsters! I just don't know how you can look at the without smiling!  I did these a few years ago (See Here) and when I heard we were having a Monster theme for the book fair I was so excited to have a reason to do them again!  

I am so thankful to all of the students, parents, and teachers for making this possible by sending in all of their tissue boxes!  

The kids loved seeing their monsters "come alive"  The transformation process from seeing the tissue box turn into a little creature was really fun for all of us!

Ah! Monsters!

Some Second Grade Classes are making Monsters with Pop Out Mouths.  So after reading When a Monster was born the class drew their monster mouth, teeth, and then painted the inside,  

The mouths were then cut out and glued onto white paper.  I made my first Teachers Pay Teachers purchase and it has been a huge hit! Check it out here:  Monster Game! It is a monster making game- How Appropriate since monsters have taken over the art room!  Students get a monster sheet and a die, each time they roll it correlates to a monster body part.  This really helped get their imaginations going as students created a monster body around their mouth!  

Look how cute these monsters came out!!! 

3rd grade name monsters!

As part of the Monster Mania going on at Evans, some third grade classes are making their own personal monsters inspired by their names!  We started off by Folding a Piece of paper, Writing our name large along the fold and then drawing a Contour line around our name- When we cut around that line and unfold the paper you get a funky monster shape!  You should have heard the Ooos and Ahhhs going around the room as students looked at their papers and imagined the monsters they would soon create!  

The students got right to work drawing lines inside their monsters.  We looked at visuals to get inspiration for our monster eyes, mouths and other body parts.  

The students outlined all of their pencil lines with sharpie to prepare for our watercolor resist painting next week!

Art Club Shirts Part II

This week Art Club finished making their T-Shirts by adding stenciling designs!  The students had so much fun adding the final touches to their t-shirts and making them unique!  

Click here to see the First Day of Tye Dye

Monster Mania in the Making!

School Spirit Art Club is off to work on their first project... MONSTERS!

The students are making big monsters to help decorate for the book fair!  I can hardly wait to see them all done!! 

                                         

Students looked at a variety of monsters, played a monster Game, and then began creating!  

Tye Dye

                                                       First Step of Art Club Shirts!

This year I am having two art clubs and as our first project we are going to make Art Club Shirts! 

So this week we prepared our shirts and tye dyed!  

The students watched youtube videos on different ways to rubber band the shirts and then we went outside to tye dye!  

The students got beautiful results- so bright and vibrant!  In the next few weeks we will decide what we want the shirts to say and prepare to paint them!

Here is a great video on how to make a spiral Tye Dye Shirt!

Monster Mania!!!

This past week, I introduced Oregon artist James DeRosso to my students.  They all had something to say about his silly monster sculptures!    

             

Every grade will be making a variation of Monsters, but 4th and 5th Graders will be making monsters out of clay just like James DeRosso!  I am lucky enough to have a Kiln at my school and now that I have gotten used to it over the past year, I am ready to put it to a lot of use!  

This class watched the video of James DeRosso and then watched as I demonstrated how to make a Pinch Pot.  I showed them how we are going to take the pot, turn it on its side and the opening becomes the mouth!  

We went over the 4 S's 

Scratch
Slip
Secure
Smooth 

 Students attached monster teeth, eyeballs, horns etc to their heads.  I have them put them on a board by the color table they sit at so I can try and keep them organized for a quick return!  

Stay Tuned for more Monster Projects!!!

Click Here to see the finished product

Zentangle Hands

 Zentangles 

Zentangles seem to be all the rage right now so I decided to jump on the band wagon and try them out for our back to school project! This site really helped me understand what they were all about! https://www.zentangle.com/zentangle-method

 I started off by showing the Students an Activ Board Presentation, showed them some examples and then put them to work!