Students dicussed and identified what the word symmetry means and how symmetry can be seen in a work of art. They then created their own snowflake collage using different colored strips of paper in order to show symmetry in their work of art.
Students read books like "Snowglobe Family" and created their own picture of a snowglobe depicting a snowman as the main focus of the picture. We talked about composition and overlapping in order to fill the space and show that some of the objects in the picture were close and others were far away.
Students looked at, discussed, and identified the three primary colors from the rainbow as Red, Yellow, and Blue. They also got the chance to look at artwork created by a variety of different artists that used these special colors a lot in their works of art such as Mondrian and Roy Lichtenstein. Using Lichtenstein's painting, Sunrise that he created in 1965 as our inspiration - Kindergarten students painted their own version of a sunrise or sunset over water using only the three primary colors.
Students cut out and made their own shapes. After glueing them down they then transformed their paper into a shape party!!!
Students created pictures of chickens using a variety of different types of lines
Students used straight, curved and zig zag lines in PEP in order to depict a picture of a thunderstorm.
Students created pictures of monsters by painting with cardboard and adding simple shapes for eyes, ears, and mouths.
Students created pictures of apples with a green background using paint, glue, and collaged paper.