February

Happy Lunar New Year!

SC Kindergarten

Fireworks Paint Stamping

To suggest the fireworks celebration of the Lunar New Year, students layered a variety of colors by stamping into tempera paint with toilet paper rolls cut like a sun on one end onto black paper. They added the sparkle of suggested white lights fizzling out by dotting white paint with Q-tips.

Kindergarten

Rocket-styled Fireworks

Mixed Media Collage

Kindergarten students collaged basic shapes of triangles and rectangles to create a rocket-styled firework illuminating an evening sky. Students added their personality by choosing colors, decor and sky elements. The fuel was created by rubbing texture plates with crayons.

BiLingual

4th, 5th Grade

Glowing Script Letters

Our bilingual 5th graders learned to create an initial that seems to glow following the layering technique of contemporary Asian Artist Adam Fujitya.

2nd Grade

Year of the Snake Watercolor

2025 is the year of the snake on the Lunar New Year Calendar. Our second graders were challenged to create a unique and colorful snake wrapped around a tree branch to recognize it. The works were outlined with black crayons to help our little artists paint their snakes with watercolors and avoid their paints from bleeding together.

LEARNING TO SCULPT

In February, many of our students were also learning a multitude of ways to sculpt animals, snowpeople, pinch pots, swimmers and sunbathers.

SC Kinders,

1st GradE

Snowpeople Sculptures

Some of our young budding artists produced personalized snow people. They sculpted with Model Magic and adorned their work with beads and sparkly materials.

2nd Grade

Pinch Pot Animal Sculptures

Second graders created cats, mice, birds and bunnies from adapted pinch pots made with air dry clay.

4th, 5TH GRADE

ART CLUB

Pinch Pot-Altered Bowls

Fourth and Fifth grade Art Club members chose to sculpt altered pinch pot bowls with air dry clay and paint with pearlized colors.

2nd Grade Mixed Media

Summer Chillin'

Our students in one second grade class each sculpted a sunbathing or swimming figure with air dry clat, painted a unique paper towel with watercolors, and designed a paper umbrella, colored with markers. Some of these will be uploaded into the application for the chance to be seen in the PS Art Show, which is partnered with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Let's cross our fijngers they get selected!

2nd Grade ART CLUB

New York City Dogs, Paper Mache

This piece is a collaboration by six second grade students who were inspired by the Meet the Breeds Dog Show in New York City. Each student sculpted a paper mache dog of their choice after reviewing photos of many breeds. They painted and embellished their dogs using their imaginations. Together the students drew and painted the New York City background. We are entering this work for consideration to be seen in the Bronx Festival Show at the end of the school year.

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