A lil' Mondrian-Kindergarten

Students in Kindergarten had previously worked with vertical and horizontal lines. We continued those lines right into a Mondrian style project. We reviewed primary colors and created a pictures based from Piet Mondrian's painting Broadway Boogie Woogie. Student enjoyed making city blocks, streets and colorful cars!

Alma Woodsey Thomas Collages 3rd Grade

Inspiration:

The Eclipse-Alma Woodsey Thomas

Elmo Faces

Kindergarten students start off with basic gluing, cutting and tearing skills. They first tore lots of red paper, we cut a 1/2 circle for the smile and put those two things down. I had a circle traced so the kids could stay in the line. We cut two circles and added pupils. Last, each student received an orange rectangle and together we cut into an oval for the nose. The expressions are just hilarious! I am thinking Grover next year!

Rectangle People

Another one from the great Blue Moon Palette--I love it over there at her site!

http://bluemoonpalette.blogspot.com/2011/08/rectangle-people.html

We added some landscape features on ours. Love the ways these turned out!

Mister Seahorse!

I saw this over at http://onecrayolashort.blogspot.com/! A Super AWESOME idea and thank you! It was well worth the mess because the kids loved this one! We used sponges to dab on blue (12 x 18), Neon pink and orange (7 x18) and neon green and yellow (4x6). The painting took a full 60 minutes. The second class students traced my seahorse template and combined the picture. Results are amazing and thanks again for sharing over at One Crayola Short!!

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.

Jasper Johns Flag Collage

In honor of Veteran's day I had my 2nd grade classes create a flag collage. We talked about pop artist Jasper Johns, Veteran's and how flags are symbols. We used a newspaper half, I gave them strips of Red, White and Blue for them to cut into squares. We finished with a little glitter in the blue for the star sparkle. I've done this project with paint and it works but the news paper gets pretty flimsy.

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.