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! 

Back to school!

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Here we are again! Year 22 over here! We’re through with rules and procedures, (I went over them 36 times….6 classes on a 6 day rotation, shew!) so now we can focus on some art! 

Side note- this helped tremendously with 3-5, going over where things are in the new art room (yes they moved me again, and thank goodness it’s not a portable) This is a scavenger hunt the big kids did, that another art teacher in the district shared and it was a hit! 

Here’s what we’re working on this week! 

The shape robots and shape bird, inspired by Deep Space Sparkle

Romero Britto Pets

Symmetrical circles 

And I found this project I did about 15 years ago, at least 😆 but we’re trying it again! 

Here’s some great examples from some of our students! 

1st grade Line Sculptures

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This week, 1st grade artists wrapped up the school year with a fun and colorful paper sculpture project inspired by art teacher and creator Cassie Stephens! Students explored the exciting world of line by turning flat strips of paper into standing 3D sculptures full of loops, curls, zigzags, and bends.

Using bright paper and their creativity, students learned how lines can move in many different ways and how artists can make artwork pop off the page. Each sculpture was attached to a bold black-and-white line background, they made with big Sharpies, helping the colorful forms stand out even more.

This lesson was the perfect one-day project to celebrate all the creativity, problem-solving, and artistic growth our 1st graders have shown this year. The classroom was filled with excitement as students experimented, built, and proudly shared their unique designs. We are so proud of these young artists and all they accomplished this year!

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