Holiday Round Up

Two of my classes made pictures frames like these: 

They turned out really cute and I did not take pictures until after the kids glued their pictures in, so I did not want to post any of the frames with their pictures in it. 

This year, I did not do too many holiday art projects, but here is a round-up of some that I have done in the past. 

Sock Snowmen

 Snowflakes with Glitter

Snowglobe Pictures

Picture Frame with Tooling Foil

Dreamcatcher Style Ornament

Winter Landscapes

I usually do these in January, but this could be a holiday landscape.

Clay Heart Ornaments

 (I did these again this year, but forgot to take pictures.)

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Winter Collages

My posting is going to be limited for a little while.  I burnt four of my fingers on a hot glue gun yesterday and had to go to the urgent care.  Basically the glue dripped on four fingers on my left hand... I was sitting in the teacher's lounge peeling the hot glue off my fingers and crying.  Definitely a shock to the system.  They are ok now... just some throbbing on and off.   I ordered low temp glue guns because I am not going to use those anymore.  So, limited typing now.... just a few pictures of winter collages.

 

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Winter Landscapes

2^nd Grade Winter Landscapes

For this project, we read a book about Grandma Moses: 

Grandma Moses (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

We discussed how to draw a river or road showing depth (by drawing it converging to a point in the distance).  We talked about using size variation to show distance while drawing houses and other objects. 

The students cut out mountains from gray paper and a snowy patch from white paper (I walked them through this step-by-step).  Houses were cut from construction paper and details were added with crayons.  Trees and snow were painted with watercolor cakes. 

Snowglobe Picture

These were some pictures we made today with the third graders.  The kids used markers and construction paper crayons to draw their snow scene on the globe.  Then they added white paint dots for snow.  Some glued on white fluff as well. 

topped snowman!