Monster Selfie

Once there was a Snowman Snowman...

Once there was a Snowman, snowman, snowman...

Winter weather with paint, sponges and pencil erasers
cut out shapes and build a snowman
details with crayon, color pencil and collage

Sea Turtles part 2 and 3

My Happy Winter House

Happy Wintere  House- recognizing a “house” shape, using a variety of materials and techniques to create individual Happy Homes all using the same pattern, following a series of directions.
Skill building

Name Game

Kinders worked with writing their name big little top bottom and sideways with rainbow crayons. Part II watercolor over name art exploring blending and watercolor techniques.

Name Rainbow Game-Line direction, following series of stop and go directions, how to use a paint brush, watercolor blending, skill building.

Continuous Line Drawing

Owls- what is an owl shape, what are owl body parts? Continuous line drawing, following a series of steps, learning to let the pencil/pen guide your design, pen stays on the paper. Connects to skills used in cursive writing.

Problem solving how to create small details? Color, cut and create and environment
A perfect go to project that students can color and detail throughout the school year.

Science/Nature/Art connection observation and imagination

Abstract Drawing with Glue

Overview of Abstract art, intro to pastels.

Sea Turtle Project part I

Warm and Cool...designing the shell is first

Wacky Winter hats

Fun Holiday and or seasonal inspired project perfect for little hands. Lots of pre cut options for creativity.

Kinder Fall Leaves

Changing a Summer green leaf into a Fall warm colored leaf, using oil pastels and for a bit of detail with added a cut and glued yarn center vein.


Student works were displayed on the bulletin board near the front office for all to enjoy.

Mini Selfies

Collage Mini portraits...overview of the history of Portrait painting

Paper Selfie-Introduction to constructing a human face using paper.
Cut and torn paper, collage, composition, refining techniques and details. Supporting personal expression.

Frank Stella inspired

We are building on the Take a Line for a Walk project and looking at the later work of American Artist Frank Stella.

More Cute Cookies

What a sweet and fun way to learn , what are the parts of our face and where are they located. Where are my arms, legs and tummy...coloring, cutting, gluing and creating!

Leaf Tile Patterns

This projects has several steps and involves introducing students to printmaking.

First we did a series of leaf rubbing to transfer the texture and shape of the leaf to the paper.

Lines straight Lines curvy

Lines LINES LiNEs...long straight short curvy this project has it all!

Student get to try out using a ruler to create straight lines, how many lines can you draw in 2 minutes?

We looked at a variety of art work that had strong line use to compare and contrast. Jackson Pollock's expressive work with Frank Stella's more minimalist pieces.

How many curvy cooked spaghetti lines can you draw, how about some ocean waves.  We are building our line vocabulary as we create.

Students then matted their own work with lots of pride!

Picasso inspired Fairy-tale villains

This lesson combines the Picasso/cubist approach to portraiture with well know icons of classic Fairy Tale stories...the witch, troll, wizard...

Also connect to color theory with terms such as hue, value, tone, tint, complementary color...

Lake George

Inspired by the Georgia O'Keeffe painting...collage learning the basics of creating a landscape. We used color pencil to layout the various areas and talked about warm and cool colors. Students were encouraged to use a variety of papers and experiment with tearing out their shapes and forms. Lots of individuality inspired by one classic image.

Name Tile Project

4 part project

Glue, Pastel and a Pumpkin

2 Part project:
looking at pumpkin forms, students practiced drawing step by step. Working with white glue, students drew pumpkins.

After glue had dried students colored the pumpkins and stems with chalk pastels.

Cookie People around the world

It's a small world  cut and collage project.
Inspired by cultural clothing from around the world.

Kinder Self Portrait

this is me...

Little Shrines

Little shrines...Day of the Dead Cultural exploration, artists that inspire, how does this tradition connect to North and South American history and World influences?
Connecting to classroom Social Studies themes

Day of the Dead alters- building on previous knowledge create a small clay “sugar skull” form, collage, sharpie and assemblage to create a 3-D frame to display and create a cohesive design. Form and function
Engineering/ Art connection