Paper Craft

 

a colorful paper craft that involves folding and interweaving strips of paper. The artwork is made using alternating shades of green paper strips arranged in a spiraling or crisscross pattern. These strips are looped and glued or taped at the ends to form a three-dimensional, dynamic structure that arches and curves in various directions, creating an intricate lattice-like design. 

My students made multiple colors and hang them on the ceiling.

Winter Stage Decoration

  Winter Concert Stage Decoration: A Starry Holiday Night with Snowmen

Theme: A cozy, magical winter night filled with twinkling stars, warm lights, and holiday cheer.

❄️ Winter Village Art Project

 

❄️ Winter Village Art Project

Grade Level: 2nd
Duration: 2–3 class periods (30–45 minutes each)
Objective:
Students will design and create a winter-themed village scene using a variety of art techniques, focusing on shapes, patterns, perspective, and storytelling.

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🎯 Learning Goals

• Identify and use geometric shapes to create buildings

• Practice overlapping and size variation to show depth

• Explore texture and detail in a winter setting

• Develop a scene that tells a visual story

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🖼️ Materials

• White construction paper (background)

• Colored paper scraps (buildings, trees)

• Crayons, markers, or colored pencils

• Glue sticks

• Scissors

• Paint

• Optional: glitter glue or silver gel pens for snow sparkle

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🧠 Introduction / Discussion (5–10 minutes)

1. Show students examples of winter villages (illustrations, real photos, or holiday cards).

2. Discuss:

   • What do they see in a winter village? (houses, shops, snow, lights, trees, people)

   • How do we know it’s winter? (snow, bare trees, warm lights)

   • What makes buildings or houses look close or far away?

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✏️ Step-by-Step Instructions

Day 1: Planning & Drawing

1. Background

   • Give each student a sheet of white construction paper (this is the sky).

   • Students paint the sky of any choice of colors.

2. Buildings

   • Demonstrate how to use rectangles, triangles, and squares to build simple houses.

   • Students cut and glue at least 3–5 buildings of different sizes to show depth.

   • Encourage overlapping some buildings slightly to show layers.

3. Details

   • Add doors, windows, chimneys, and rooftops using colored pencils or scraps.

   • Optional: Draw in tiny wreaths, string lights, or shop signs.

Day 2: Adding Atmosphere

1. Snow and Trees

   • Use white paint to add snow on rooftops and the ground.

   • Cut green triangle trees, bare brown trees, or use crayons to draw in details.

2. Extra Touches

   • Add people, snowmen, or animals to make the scene feel alive.

   • Use glitter glue or silver pen for sparkly snow effects.

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Wrap-Up / Reflection

• Students can do a quick "village tour" where they explain who might live in their buildings or what’s happening in their scene.

Dry Erase Board

These are great tools to use for drawing practice. Students can draw and erase repeatedly without wasting paper and time for erasing. Why didn't I think of this before? Now all students use them for drawing practices and sketching and brainstorming for ideas. Works wonder!

Here's my 1st graders drawing their lines on the board.

Spooky Silhouette of a Haunted House Collage

 The third-graders are creating a haunted house collage using silhouettes this week. We discussed what silhouette is and looked at various examples, particularly on landscape.

Materials:

12x18 white construction paper

Trace the circle template (lids) for the moon

Pencil

Black construction paper, yellow and white paper

Tempera paint

Brushes

Scissors

Glue

Instructions:

1. Trace a circle on the white paper for the moon.

2. Paint the background with the color of your choice.

3. Paint the border black for a spooky effect.

4. Start drawing a haunted house on a black spear. Cut it out. Cut out yellow paper for windows as if the lights are on.

5. Glue cutouts on the painted background. Add other things like graveyards, dead trees, ghosts, fences, witches, etc. 

Community Holiday Meal

These are our decorations for this year. Our theme is snowflakes and Santa's hat. All students except preschool cut out snowflakes and glued them on blue butcher paper for the table runner. They turned out so cute.

Art/Tech Project: Chatterkid

The element of Art: Texture. As an extension of our texture unit, the students used ipad to research their favorite dinosaur. First, they drew their dinosaur with background. They added details textures by rubbing  crayon on textured surfaces. Then, students took photo, drew a line on the mouth of the dinosaur and record a few facts about their dinosaur using chatterkid app.

Kolter