Projects

Alphabet Soup

My second graders got to PAINT!!! First I gave them a white paper plate. With crayons, we put some letters down.  We added some squares and dots to represent pepper and carrots, there may be some onions too.  Then, using crayons and water color paints, we painted yellow over our letters. We also designed a table cloth with crayons and water paints. They noticed that the crayons repelled the water paints. We thought that was really cool. 

After that we glued down our plate and added a napkin to the table cloth. We couldn't forget the spoon.  We also talked about shadows and where they would be. Using chalk we added the shadows..

Materials: 11by18 White paper, wht. plate, napkins, crayons, water colors, ruler to make lines, paint brush, and glue.

September 2021

Snowman Stamp

For about 8 years, we here in the Art room make Christmas cards for the local hospital.  Each class has a different theme. 

This year's 2rd grade made a snowman themed stamp.  We were donated  poster crayons. They are  a little more vibrant than regular crayons.  They placed their snowman half off the sheet .  A different way of using space.  They could design their snowman anyway they wanted.  

Materials: Black  11 by 11  construction paper. poster board crayons .and Scissors

December 2021

Heart Graph

With this project, I talked to my 2nd graders about warm and cool colors.  Because it was the month of "LOVE". I had them make a heart (they could make up to 4) in the center of their paper. We then measured  out a grid using our rulers. A lot of them had a little problem with this.  Measuring in ART? That brought  on a conversation about tools we can use in art. 

Then they where asked to color the whole sheet. The outside of the heart is done in cold colors. The heart itself, colored in warm colors. 

For this project I had about 4 students that were on eLearning.  So they did this on there own and with what they had at home.

I think they all did an amazing job!!

Materials: 11by9.5 White paper, Color pencils or crayons, ruler to make lines.

February 2022

If I Were an Alien. I would look like this...

We had fun with this one! In between long projects, I'll give my students  worksheets. This one had a frame and a header with "I had art today!" .

Their instructions: To make a self-portrait of what they would look like IF they where an alien.  It was great to see what they came up with.!

Materials: 11by 81/2 White paper, Color pencils or crayons, a printout of a frame and a black sharpie.

March 2022

Spring Flowers

This project had many different parts, so it took awhile. We started with 3 sheets of white paper. I then had them  mix warm colors on one, cool color,s on another,  and one mixed with cool and warm colors.   We made 4 petals on each sheet. Cut them out. We then made the middle of the flower. 

I think they did a wonderful job.

Materials:  3 sheets of White paper, One 81/2by 11 Green construction paper, 5by 5 black, a brown circle cutout. Black sharpie tempera paint, pencils, glue  and scissors. (you can also use some fun scissors .)

March 2022