Ink Monsters

As a imagination booster Kinders-3rd graders creates monsters out of "spilled ink". Students watched multiple videos from artist Stephan Bucher who created Daily Monster. Students then used India Ink and straws to create their ink blot. Once they had their unique ink blot to work with they had different drawing materials available to work with (markers, colored pencils, crayons, etc.)

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2nd grade

3rd grade

Pinch Pots

Kindergartners and 1st graders used clay for the first time! They created simple pinch pots and added texture with different objects. Each pinch pot came out super unique. Students used tempera cakes to mix their own colors and paint designs on their pots.

Warm & Cool Landscape

Kinders and 1st graders used sharpie marker to draw landscapes. They used their knowledge of different types of lines to create texture in their landscapes. Kinders completed 2 separate paintings one warm and one cool. 1st graders had the challenge of warm on top and cool on the bottom. We used liquid watercolors which is my new favorite material to use with the kids.


Kinders

1st Grade

Henna Hands

Students learn about the Body Art Henna. We combine the social studies lesson about India with an element of art, line. Students watch a video of Henna getting applied at an Indian Weddings, have multiple images of Henna as resources, and have successfully identified and created many different types of lines. Then they create their own designs but tracing their hand and filling their empty hands with patterns of lines.