Free Day!

We had a free day in 2nd grade today. The kids came up with some awesome stuff! On a free day, I set up 3 stations: watercolor, drawing with cutting and pasting, and a sculpture station with old boxes, string, tape and other odd materials. The pictures are below... I love how creative kids can get when you let them just make art!

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

Kindergarten Mixed Media

 


Before starting our trees, we read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Elhert. The kids looked for shapes and colors in the book and we all talked about the fall colors. Each student made 3 trees; red, orange, and yellow. At the end of the project we talked about all the different materials we used to complete the project. Crayons, paper, scissors, glue, tissue paper and water, oh my!

1st Grade Shapes

We spent a lot of time looking at famous artworks and identifying shapes before we started this project. The kids were also working on learning their shapes in the classrooms too, so by the time we finished this project those kids knew their polygons! We drew backgrounds then cut shapes out of construction paper and glued it on, framing it with a funky shaped backing. Love how these turned out, nice job first grade!