5th grade Self Portrait Collage

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This week 5th grade is working on their self portraits, that they use for their collage! We just drew half a face, so it’s a little easier! This is inspired from The Lost Sock art blog and the original project can be found, if you click here. 

Day 1 (45 min) Drawing half a face with me. Most have had time to draw, trace, and start to color

Day 2 (45 min) They finish coloring, cut it out, glue it on the side of the new paper, and start on their collage. I usually get them to find the letters in their name first. We're still on day 2, so I'm not sure if they'll finish day 3 or not!

Materials:

60lb paper for portraits

colored pencils

skin tone oil pastels

oil pastels

crayons

scissors

glue

80lb paper

Here’s what we have so far! 

1st grade Tropical Birds

For 1st grade’s first art project of the year, we focused on line, shape, and color, and created these beautiful birds together! This lesson is from Deep Space Sparkle as well, and is a hit each time we try it! 

Here’s the materials we used:

90lb paper

Pencils

Sharpies or black oil pastels

My favorite tempera paint cakes or my 2nd favorite tempera paint

My favorite paint brushes 

Nearly unspillable paint cups 

2nd grade Shape Robots

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For their 1st actual art project, 2nd grade started a Deep Space Sparkle lesson, and created some shape robots the past 2 art classes! 

We used shape tracers like these, as tools to create our masterpieces!

We also used:

Shape Tracers

60lb paper

Construction paper crayons

Regular crayons

Silver sharpies and regular sharpies

I love how each one turned out differently! Great job 2nd grade!