Black History Month Displays

Walls without artwork are always so sad to me so I try to fill up every empty wall I can find in the school!  Here is a paper mural done for our Black History Month Concert.  It really brightens up the dull Cafeteria!  

Here is our school's work being displayed at the Board of Education Building.  I love showing off our talented students!!  

This was a display of all their Black History Month Projects.  

Famous African American Glue Prints

This lesson works great if you're school does a Black History Month Assembly or celebration.  Each student chose an influential African American out of a hat.  They were given a contour drawing of their person- similar to a coloring book page. 

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!!

SnowGlobes

My second grade students created snow globes filled with winter scenes.  

  Students traced coffee can lids to create circles on their sketch paper.  Students were required to make two different sketches of winter scenes.  They could get opinions from their classmates as to which was the better picture.  Acetate was placed over their final sketch and it was traced onto the acetate with permanent marker.  An additional coffee can lid was traced about one inch to the right of the snow scene circle.  Two lines about 1 inch apart should be drawn to connect the two circles.