October projects

Fall is my ultimate fave! Here are a few projects I'm doing right now with some if my classes.  

Third grade are doing a modified batik style pumpkin with light & dark orange-plus it's a shallow relief (glued on top if packing peanuts.

Fifth grade is drawing an elevation in Victorian style architecture-with some spooky additions if they'd like

Second grade resist web resist with color wheel pattern-and the little 3D spiders makes this another shallow relief.

Classic 3D pumpkin is the bonus project for the students who finish a little early. Toliet paper rolls worked well on this 

FALL ART! Hanging Leaves-Bonus Project

Here we are again, he beginning of a new school year. We are back and going strong here in the art room. I already have students finished with their first art project...so the questions begin "What do I do, I'm done?" Oh yes, no what!? I am so tired of dishing out 'free draw,' model clay, drawing book stations...ect. So I am now planning to do a group project/collaborative art for early finishers. The first one of the year were these lovely free falling leaves. I had plenty of leaves mod podged through the years and templates made-so student were to trace, cut and create a leaf as real as possible. They used watercolor as a final touch of color. I hung the little mobiles but 1/2 a toilet paper roll and filled it by stringing on leaves. WAY better that wasting free draw paper! Plus- we work with warm colors, cutting, observations of leaf veins and a little watercolor practice. I plan on doing many more of these types of things for my early finishers!!

Crazy Pumpkin Faces

Here's the link where I grabbed this awesome idea: THANK YOU!

http://mnartgal.blogspot.com/2009/10/jack.html

This really brought out 1st grade creativity. I usually direct them step x step but this time I was free with how they did the face and the fence. I am so proud of the creative results!

On a side note, I'm under 2 weeks away from my due date..so I have been relying heavy on blogs and posts! I have been giving credit where credit is due to those awesome art teachers coming up with some neat things! Also this is my first year on a cart in about 5 years and it is short-term thank goodness! Our building is adding on and I'll have my lovely classroom back next year! Thanks to all the super duper blogs out there helping a 9 month prego-cart-puller-art teacher through this fall!

Indian Corn

Kindergarten worked on some much needed cutting and gluing skills with this project. We talk about the kinds of corn there are and looked at several pictures of Indian corn. We started with a dark brown rectangle, cut the corners off, then the tiny corners to create an oval. The students cut squares from colored paper, used one dot to glue them down and we added a little green for the leaves. I put them out in the hall to look like stalks.

Owls

This is one of my favorite projects to do with Kindergarten in the fall. Each owl has their owl personality. Students learn owl vocab (talons, tufts, pupils, predators, prey), practice cutting circle's for the eyes and tear a variety of brown tones for the feathers. This took us two 60 minute classes.

Fall Landscape

I love this project for 2nd grade! We talk about perspective, fore, middle and background. The students start with painting the sky, we add white to the blue for a tint. Then the students mix the two compliment colors blue & orange to get a nice brown color for the stems. Once dry the students add details to the pumpkins to make them look round and some crows in the sky. We construct our scarecrow as a class and glue him to the paper. They turn out really successful! I saw this a few years ago on a school art webpage.