K-3 Art Projects
Bloom where you're planted! 1st Grade Floral Painting
Little Tweet-hearts! 2nd Grade Sculpture
We researched Utah birds & habitats, then sculpted them!
We used Crayola Model Magic, paint and a brown paper bag!
You Matter
At Cedar Ridge every student is important!
Every student made a self-portrait to put on our "You Matter" wall, to remind us we are better together!
The Magical Yet
Make a Magical Yet to help you do hard things!
This year has been challenging. ALPINE SCHOOL DISTRICT has been focusing on social and emotional well being, on overcoming difficulties and perserverance. This book and project is about struggling and getting through tough times with a buddy, a magical yet that helps you to keep going! YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS!
The Magical Yet by Angela DiTerlizzi
The Yet helps you find a way, even when you think you won't! Each of us from the day we are born are accompanied by a special Yet! Can't tie your shoes? YET! Can't ride a bike? YET! The Yet is there to help you out! Follow the read aloud at this link.
Yet!
This is the Yet belonging to the main character in the book, The Magical Yet.
Isn't it gorgeous? It looks like a fantastical friend! If YOU had a magical Yet, what would it look like? Would it look like a fairy, a dragon, a bug?
Make your own Magical Yet!
Supplies you'll need: paper, pencil, crayons or markers, and some clay (air dry, play doh, sculpey will all work).
Make a Magical Yet!
Step 1. Sketch your Yet. Grab a pencil and paper and draw out a magical creature. Make sure it has arms and legs, a mouth, and eyes. It can have other features too, like wings, a crown or hat, horns etc.
Step 2. Come up with a color scheme for your Yet. What color is your favorite color? Your Yet might be that color too! You can make your Yet MONOCHROMATIC - dark and light shades of the same color OR it can be several colors!
Step 3. Sculpt a Yet. My third graders used Model Magic a Crayola product that dries in the air overnight. It's inexpensive and can be bought at most grocery/craft stores. It's fragile, so be careful with your Yet. If you don't have air dry clay, use Play doh or make your own salt dough by finding a recipe online. Add googly eyes, sequins, beads or buttons if you have those around. Add them with a drop of Elmer's glue. Or draw on your Yet with a Sharpie marker to make eyes.
Step 4. Place your Yet somewhere it can inspire and give you confidence to do hard things you haven't learned YET! Take care of your Yet and keep making art! Send me pics if you build a Yet!
We're Falling in love with Leaves!
Utah Science Standard 2.3 Compare and contrast seasonal weather changes, identifying characteristics of seasons.
Goodbye Summer, Hello autumn
We read some awesome picture books about the changing weather, and its affect on nature. Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak, Yellow Time by Lauren Stringer, and Sky Tree by Thomas Locker are all excellent books with gorgeous pictures. Or try this read aloud, Fresh Fall Leaves.
How to draw and paint leaves?
Get a piece of nice thick paper to paint and color on.
Find some leaves laying around outside to trace OR download some free printable leaves OR draw your own! Draw at least 5 leaves, making sure to space them out. Some can be partly off of the page, this add interest!
Draw the veins in your leaves, or just divide your leaf in half with a pencil, and draw lines to represent leaves.
Color the leaves with nice DARK crayon. Think about FALL colors: red, orange, yellow, brown, peach, light greens, and red-violets. Save the sky for paint. Remember to press hard with your crayon!
Paint the sky blues, greens or purples - and for an extra sparkle ADD SALT. Just sprinkle table salt onto your painting while it's still wet, and MAGIC, it turns into little white sparkles!!!
Can you see the salt?
This student used purple paint for their sky, and sprinkled the salt while it was nice and wet.