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

Christmas Senior Citizen's Supper Decorations

These are our centerpieces for the supper 2 years ago.

Christmas Dinner Decorations

This year's decorations are table runners and centerpieces. Only the preschool, kindergarten, 3rd and 4th grade worked on this project. The art department is always in charge of the decoration in our schoolwide events.

The table runners were handprint wreath by preschool and kindergarten

3rd and 4th grade made the Christmas trees. We used air-dry clay for the base of the tree with a popsicle stick to stank on. They turned out very cute.

Pre-K Texture Rubbings

Elements of Art: Texture. Students can...

• Tell what texture means
• Describe the texture of objects when touched: rough, bumpy, smooth, silky, hard, soft, etc.
• Create texture by rubbing on texture sheets.

We used the old wallpaper samples for this activity. Students put the textured sheet under their paper and rub it sideways with a crayon to get the texture print.