Color Wheel Flowers

 
It was time for The third graders to learn about Color Theory.  Instead of just making a typical circular color wheel, I wanted the students to make a Color wheel that would turn into a beautiful picture.  So we went with Flowers!

Color Mixing Quiz

BackDrops, Murals & Bulletin Boards

For Various School Concerts, Assemblies, or Holidays the Art Teacher is called upon to beautify the Space.  Although it is time consuming, it is one of my favorite things to do! 

 Below, we are making a Backdrop for the Winter Concert.  We also made Giant Sparkly Snowflakes to hang up on the stage.

Aboriginal Snakes

In college I spent 6 months In Melbourne, Australia as part of a Study Abroad Program. 

Me in front of Uluru 

We wore Mosquito Nets on Our head to keep off All the FLIES!

What a rewarding experience!!  Melbourne was the cleanest and most functioning city I have ever seen and the people were so friendly!  During my stay there I traveled with a group to the center of Australia.. To the place which makes up what most American's imagine of Australia.. The Great Outback.  The red sand, Hot sun, and nothing but rocks!  One thing you don't see in the pictures are all the FLIES!

kangaroo Tails- Poor Kangaroos!
                                                                                                                     

Embroidered Birds

To celebrate the start of Spring I had my Second Graders do an art lesson with Birds as the Subject Matter.  But I really surprised them when I said we would be sewing our birds instead of painting or drawing them! 

The first thing we did was go over Needle safety.  We used needles that are a little more blunt and made for  children, but even so it is important to be careful.   

Next I gathered the students around the table for a demonstration.  I went over how to thread the needle and how to form a knot at the end so that the yarn doesnt come through the other side.  Next I showed them a few different kinds of stitches and the different effects each stitch had.  

Endangered Animals

Every child has some sort of collection growing up and mine was Panda Bears.. I was obsessive about it!  My collection resulted both in me having over a thousand Pandas AND a huge awareness for endangered animals.   So any chance I get to do a project involving Panda Bears or anything involving Endangered Animals, I go for it!  

 My Inspiration for this lesson came from a Kohl's ad.  They were advertising a T-Shirt with a cartoon cat's face made out of a Peace Sign.  What a great idea.. lots of animals have the long snout nose that can go along with the bottom of the peace sign.  As you will see below we exaggerated the animals that were naturally capable of this look- We call it our creative License!

 So My third and fourth grade special Education Class were already studying animals in class so I decided to extend upon their classroom lesson and focus on Endangered Animals!  We talked about how some animals were very close to extinction and a lot of the cause came from Humans! The World Wildlife Fund is a great site to use and you can even adopt an animal in need for your classroom!  I obviously "adopted" a panda as a child and then in my classroom everyone brought in a dollar and we adopted a "class pet"  THis really got the students involved in the project and to feel like they were helping!  

Dinosaurs

 I love collaborating with other teachers and I love Dinosaurs- So when the Librarian came to me and wanted to do a Dinosaur unit together I was very excited and immediately set to work on creating a Lesson that was suitable for the class.  It is an autistic Class with students ranging from 9-12 but most are on a first grade level.  I always have so much fun working with this class and like to include as many textures as possible!  

 THe Librarian gave me a list of each student's assigned dinosaur that they would be researching so I got to work on finding step by step drawings for these.  Conveniently, I had Dinosaur Texture Paper so the students were able to follow their worksheet and step by step draw their specific dinosaurs.  The students then cut out their dinosaurs, with some assistance.