Great blog

This blog is one place I check for great ideas when I teach. I've used several things from here.

I just pulled a few ideas from here that I plan on using in the next couple of weeks at school.

http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/

Happy New Year!!

Always looking for more ideas

This has been a great year so far, and it is hard to believe that the semester is almost over! Here are a few things we have done recently. I love it when I find new ideas and they work. :o)

I had my junior high students do this assignment. It gave them the opportunity to get to know the elements of art. It was also a great project to take up extra time we had.

The 1st grade class did this project. I'll have to take some pictures of the ones they made because they are adorable! It is called "Looking out the window". I found it on another website. I'll post it on here when I find it again. We took about 3 weeks to complete it. But it was very fun.

New Ideas

Some time this spring I went to an ACSI Art Festival. There was some great artwork. I got some great new ideas. Here are a few of them.

This one was neat. I've done something similar to this. The students get one picture to glue onto their paper and then draw around it to create one picture. I love these projects because the students come up with so many different ideas. When I did this kind of project I really emphasized that the students needed to think of something unique to draw. My students know that they are not to copy a friend sitting next to them. Original work is very important. (If I remember correctly a 2nd grade student did this piece)

I was very impressed with this piece of art. This was done by a 3rd grade student. He or she used oil pastels. I wish my school could afford this art medium. This is something I could totally do in one of my classes. I think I would spend one class time talking about Picasso.

I love the color the student used in this artwork. They are bold and bright. I tried something like this with the 6th grade class last year, but it didn't work so well. I might be a little over critical. We did it a little differently though. I had the students draw a profile and then connect that to a front view of their head. (It is hard to explain at the moment) On the profile side of the face the students used chalk pastels that represented what their faces actually looked like. On the other half of the picture the students used markers to draw things that they liked or ways to describe them. Once finished they cut out the shape of their head and glued it onto a piece of construction paper. Some of the students put a lot of effort into it and they turned out really well.