Kandinsky Colour Study

Collaborative Painting

This project was a fantastic way to create positive working relationships amongst my Grade 3 students'. During session 1 we focused on line & shape making. The kids worked as teams to create as many different shapes and line styles as they could in 10 minutes on scrap paper. These shapes and lines were then transferred onto large group drawings with black paint. Students' were encouraged to rotate around the table groups and to add whatever they felt like to each drawing. (shapes were drawn first then the connecting lines were added after). During session 2 the kids got to add colour to their group painting. My only instruction was that the same colour could not be touching. Again the students' got to rove table to table and work with various classmates. (this was a great teaching moment to talk about Artroom safety & moving around with paint brushes)

 

 The finish product as you can see is AMAZING!!!! Hands down my favourite lesson so far this year.

Still life drawing-surpise!!!

 Never under estimate your kids and what they will think is 'cool'. This still life drawing activity in my eyes was one of the more 'not as exciting' activities i had planned for my grade 4 classes. Coming off the back of creating wire sculptures i thought the kids reaction would be BOR-ING!!!

Oh how wrong was I. They LOVED IT!

 For the lesson i set my room up in true art studio formation. All the tables facing inwards so everyone had their own angle of the fruit bowl (i have never done this with this grade, so just by moving the tables around created that 'hook' to get them interested)

Materials: fine line pen, watercolours

Rapunzel let down your hair!

When I came across this in my travels I knew it would be perfect for Grade 2 as they are looking at Fairytales. Plus it looked like so much fun...
Kids Artists Blogspot
Thanks for the inspiration

Here are some of my kiddies creations.

The Circus is in Town!!

Who would of thought a paper bag could be so much fun. Grade 1 had a go a designing their own clown puppet from a simple paper lunch bag.

A few buttons, joggle eyes, pom poms and some material later you have a very cheap puppet to keep the kidlets entertained.
To continue our clown theme I also got the kids to make a drawing of their clown performing and painted them using watercolour paints. For the borders we used 'Paper Popz' decorations, patty pans and sequins.

Lines, Zig zags and swirls

Prep have been exploring lines and mark making this term. We created these lovely pieces by combining oil pastels and food dye.

Rainbow Serpent

The kids had a lot of fun creating their own sgraffito pieces of art after reading 'The Rainbow Serpent'. First they coloured their paper using bright oil pastels, making sure ALL the paper was covered. Then the fun part, adding the black paint and letting their imaginations run wild.

Seuss-a-bration

To celebrate the life and times of Dr Seuss my grade 2's helped to 'Seuss up' the library