Picasso Monsters

Some Second Grade classes have been working on Picasso Monster Collages.  Students learned about Pablo Picasso and Cubism and then created their own Monsters inspired by Pablo Picasso.  

             

                         

                    

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!

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

Back to School Fun!

Starting my second year in my art room was a lot of fun!  I was able to really focus on how to arrange the room for the best use of space and to make moving around the room as easy as possible!  As  you art teachers out there know, figuring out how to organize all those supplies is half the battle.

Here are some pictures of my room all ready for the first day!  My room does not have much wall space but it has a ton of storage space (believe me I am not complaining!)  So all of my visuals are on bulletin board paper and hanging on  the front of the cabinets.

Here I have our Class guidelines "Ways to be A Great Artists"  These aren't necessarily our rules but ways we want to act in order to have a great art class and of course make great art!  Next to that is our Noise Meter- This I really hope to make a point of using a little more this year!  I found this on Pinterest once upon a time and love the idea!  Each level of noise is associated with a painting.  0 Being the Mona Lisa and 5 being the Scream.  The kids seem to really catch onto this!  To the right I have some informative boards for the students.  Below are the elements of art and principles of design displays.  I just redid them this summer and like how to word demonstrates the element and principle.  
                                    

This is the students main board!  At the end of each class, everyone waits with big anticipation to see if they get their "Clip up" for the day.  Each clothespin has the class names on them- If they have a great art class... It gets clipped up a crayon.  The clips can also stay where they are or move down depending on behavior.  When a class gets to 10, they get to choose their own art project!  This is so much fun for all of us!  They come up with the best ideas and these projects usually end up being my favorite of the year!  We have done anything from airplanes to splatter paint to group sculptures.  

Tissue Box Monsters

TISSUE BOX MONSTERS

Created by 1st Graders at School No. 2 

This school year I was really looking forward to a new fun art lesson that would be in the Halloween spirit.  While cruising the internet one day I came across the great idea to take ordinary tissue boxes and turn them into Monsters!  So I got right on it and got the troops started on collecting Tissue Boxes.  Luckily they all came through and I was able to do the project!  

To prepare the tissue boxes, I painted them myself with acrylic paint.  I recommend this especially if doing them with a young grade like first.  It's a messy process to paint the boxes and some require two coats to hide the patterns plus it allows for the kids to spend more time creating their Monsters!!