Winter Notecard

I painted this little winter illustration this week and then copied it to make little winter note cards.  Perfect for thank you notes.    :)

Holiday Fun

One ornament made by a student

The week before winter break not much gets done in the classroom.  It's hard to start something new when we will be off school for 2 weeks.  So, as kids finished up projects I took out a bunch of random art supplies, cookie cutters, glitter, felt, and pipe cleaners for them to make stuff out of.  Here's an ornament example one kid made. 

Clay Bells

 

 I did an after school clay class with kids in grades K-6

Cool Hands, Warm Heart.. Kindergarten

Cool Hands, Warm Heart

The kindergartners traced their hands and colored them with cool colors.  They drew a heart and colored it with warm colors.

COOL COLORS:  Remind us of cool things, like the ocean.  Blues, greens, and purples are cool colors.

WARM COLORS:  Remind us of warm things, like the sun.  Reds, oranges and yellows are warm colors.

cloth and paper collage

Page of watercolor doodles.

One of the kids in my classes was wearing this shirt.

I thought this shirt was so cute!!

Art Teacher Blog Directory

I posted this before and I thought a reposting would be nice. Add your art teacher blog to this directory and then repost it to your website. The more people who repost and add it to the list will help all of us get more traffic to our blogs.

Have a Spooky Christmas

I came into the art room this morning and our other art teacher was setting up this still life for the kids to Quick Draw at the beginning of the class.  The skeleton models were borrowed from the science room and the lights were already on the skeleton.  funny!

Clay Viking Ships

 

To complement their study of explorers, the Primaries made clay Viking ships.  We started by rolling a flat slab of clay with a rolling pin and then cutting out the bottom of the boat.  Next, we rolled coils of clay to build up the walls.  Finally, students could choose to add a dragon head to the ship and shields.  We painted a fabric sail while the clay projects dried.  After these were fired in the kiln, we painted them with watercolor paints and attached the sails.  These were sprayed with a varnish to seal the paint.