Now that the first graders have learned to draw people it is time for us to keep practicing! This week instead of drawing me, the first graders drew themselves playing in the rain. I guided them through drawing a person from head to toe and then we added rain boots and umbrellas together. Then they added background on their own and we colored them in as neatly as we could with our crayons. Our very last step was to add the rain, we drew the raindrops together and then painted the sky blue with watercolors.
This week the first graders learned how to draw people from head to toe! We first read the book The Art Lesson by Tomie DePaola and noticed that when Tomie got a chance to draw whatever he wanted in the art room he chose to draw the art teacher. So, we also drew pictures of the art teacher- me- in order to give them someone to look at to figure out what shapes could work when drawing a human body. With my first group of students their "shape observations" were pretty funny, because I let them pick whether or not they wanted to draw me with my baby belly! They turned out pretty funny, but with the second two groups I decided I would guide them through drawing me normal. Once our pictures were drawn we colored them in neatly with crayons and then added a background. They could draw me where ever they wanted; some picked the art room, others chose to draw me walking my dog, one drew us getting ice cream, and my personal favorite was me inside of a pig! I love their imaginations.
After drawing animals for most of kindergarten and first grade, the first graders and I decided it would be fun to combine a bunch of different animals to make wild things! We first read the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak before looking at his illustrations and noticing that he used parts from different animals to create his wild things. We then practiced drawing a bunch of different animal's legs, arms, ears, and noses before combining them in our own ways to create our own wild thing! Once our wild things were drawn we added texture, colored them in with crayons, and painted them with watercolors. They even did a little writing to go with them in their classrooms!
With Dr. Seuss's birthday just around the corner the Hesston Elementary Students have been hard at work getting their Dr. Seuss themed projects done to decorate the halls with! The first graders listened to the book "If I Ran the Zoo" by Dr. Seuss and talked about some of the different animals that they saw in the book. We then drew Tizzle-Topped Tufted Mazurkas before painting them with watercolors!
The first graders learned about texture this week! We talked about all of the different ways to describe things that you can feel. We then described the different textures of a sunflower before working together in table groups to create these really big sunflowers in all different textures!
For the first graders last winter themed project, we read One Winter's Night by Claire Freedman. In the book animals help out a badger as it looks for shelter and food. The animals are found sleeping in their burrows and dens throughout the book. To remember the message from the book of caring for others we created dens for our little foxes to sleep in. We first drew our dens in crayons, then painted them in with tempera cakes. Then we drew our foxes, cut them out, and glued them into their new dens!
Last year we did this same project but we drew the foxes sleeping instead. Drawing a fox curled up, I found out, is quite difficult for first graders. My favorite was when another teacher came in and asked, "...are they fish??" We decided that instead it would be best to draw them sitting up instead! This past week the first graders and I painted owls! We first watched a video of a great horned owl perched up in a tree. As we watched we made observations about what the owl looked like and was doing as he perched. We then used these observations to draw our owls together! We drew them in crayon first and then painted them with watercolors. The first graders added what ever they wanted in the background and then painted the background which ever color they wanted to represent different times of day.
One of my favorite Halloween themed art projects, the first graders drew their very own witch cats based off of the book Wobbles the Witch Cat by Mary Calhoun. We drew our cats together and then practiced our best coloring when coloring them in. then we brainstormed up some halloween details and added them around our cats!
I never want take down our Dia de los Muertos display! I love it so much! The papel picados that the third graders made turned out so neat and look amazing hanging from the ceiling. Each grade level completed a different project for the holiday, the fourth graders cut out paper shapes to create calaveras, the first graders drew and decorated calaveras on paper plates, the second graders created marigolds, and the third graders made the papel picados. We got all of it done right on time for yesterday and today! Happy El Dia de los Muertos!
Hesston Elementary School is finishing up our art projects right on time! With El Dia de los Muertos in just a few days we are wrapping up and hanging up all of the beautiful artworks that the first, second, and third graders have created for the holiday. Each grade level created a different project inspired by the hallway. I will reveal our beautiful hallway soon!
The first graders created calaveras out of paper plates. We drew the shape on the plate and cut it out before adding the eyes, nose, and mouth all in sharpie. They used permanent markers to draw this, I might be crazy, and they did so well! Once our calaveras were ready we added patterns (that we had talked about on our Elmer project) and then some gems, stickers, and feathers to dress them up. They turned out so cute! |
The artwork of the HES & HMS artists.
Art Projects by GradeArchives
December 2015
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