1st Grade Sunflowers

Third Grade Still Life Vases

Third grade art standards expect students to be able to tell the difference between still life, portrait and landscape. We have focused a lot of our year on different landscapes and portrait work. For this piece, students used symmetrical cutting to make their vase and organic shapes when drawing their flowers. We painted the background one color, or with a pattern.

Third Grade Lost in Space

Definitely the highlight of 3rd Grade art. Students are always anxious to create these pieces. I use large poster boards that are donated from a paper company in town, otherwise it would be super expensive to buy a poster board for each student! This work includes many art skills including perspective, fantasy, color blending, drawing, painting, oil pastel work, etc. Students trace their hands and feet in the corners of the poster board and use rulers to create one point perspective. We then talk about what we would look like and how we would feel if we were floating in outer space. Students then completed their person with great details to reveal these emotions! We added outer space details to the background with oil pastels and then used black tempera to complete. Awesome work Third Grade!

Second Grade Theibaud Desserts

Second grade students viewed and discussed a collection of paintings that showed different feelings or emotions.  We then looked at a collection of Wayne Theibaud's work and their eyes lit up and smiles jumped on their faces! We talked about why his paintings made us feel so excited and joyful....mostly because they are yummy treats! They could decide if they wanted to make cupcakes or ice cream cones in the style of Theibaud. I do use a stencil for the bottom cone of the ice cream and the bottom part of the cupcake. It helps the students make them the same size and in the correct spaces. They draw the rest themselves! We used oil pastels and tempera cakes to complete these yummy designs.

Fourth Grade Overlapping Pipes

I found this lesson on artprojectsforkids.org and use it as an extra lesson for fourth and fifth grade students who finish early. This lesson is great because it reinforces overlapping, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines as well as shading. They also look so great and are successful for every student.

Fifth Grade Banyan Trees

Fifth Grade students learned about the Banyan Tree. We talked about symbolism and how some cultures believe the banyan tree represents everlasting life. Students painted their tree with black acrylic paint. Oil pastels were used to complete the work and to add a reflection.

Beautiful work 5th Grade !