5th grade Ring Pops

 

5th grade created these ring pops a couple of years ago, and it's been a staple for them in my curriculum, ever since! I got the idea from Katie Gray (@howgraythouart) on Instagram, and knew my students would enjoy this one! Let me tell you, they sure did! It' doesn't take a lot of complicated things either, so I was able to do it in my portable (that didn't have a sink for two years) 

Here's what supplies we used! 

Student watercolor paper

Crayola Markers 

Big kid's choice brushes

Neon tempera paint

Tru Ray paper

Ring Pops

I'm also going to get them ring pops while they work!

Here's a video showing each step, if you want to follow along with us! 

2nd grade Line and Shape Cactus

 

For the past couple of art visits, 2nd grade has been working on the elements of art, line, shape, and a little form, by creating these cacti!

Here's how we made them! 

How to draw 3-D looking boxes with a surprise inside!

 

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Sorry, I'm late in posting this lesson, but we had a very unexpected "snow week" last week, right after Valentine's Day. My little boy was born 4 years ago, on that day, so we spent the day celebrating him! Here's how we celebrated at school! After we made our Chris Uphues 3-5th mural, we went on to try Tabitha Seaton's box with hearts lesson! 4th and 5th did a great job drawing their boxes with me, because of her neat instructions on how to do so. I made a video for my 3rd grade virtual students showing them how to make it as well. You can watch that below! 

For this project we used:

Tru-Ray construction paper

Sax 90lb paper

Pencils

black Sharpie markers

Scissors & Glue sticks

4th grade shaded forms

 

   4th Grade Shaded Forms

4th grade has been learning about the elements of art, FORM & VALUE. Form is a three-dimensional geometrical figure (like a sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, etc.), as opposed to a shape, which is two-dimensional, or flat. Value is the lightness or darkness of a color.
(this project was inspired by an awesome image i found on Marnie Hyland's blog! Check out their awesome art!) Day 1: I demonstrated how to do the project. (I project all of my lessons on a giant screen, so everyone can see.) We talked about value and how to make a basic shape look 3-d. We talked about light sources, and shadows, and I demonstrated how to shade and add highlights to their shapes with chalk pastels. We used chalk for the black and oil pastels for the white. After my demo was over, the students chose their colors for their papers, we passed out the shape tracers, and the students got to work! 

Day 2: The students continued to add value to their shapes, and assembled their backgrounds. The background consists of one piece of 12 x 18" construction paper, and one piece of 4.5 x 12". After they finished shading and adding highlights, the cut out the pieces and assembled them to their background. After they glued on their "sculpture" they were supposed to shade the "table" underneath the shapes. (This project took at least 3 45 minute classes to complete.)