PreKinder goes in circles

I just happened to have TONS of cardboard circles in my school closet that were screaming to be used. Each prek student got a circle and a ton of pieces that I cut on the paper cutter (due to thickness, it would have been hard for those little ones to cut up.) They tore some of the paper off to reveal the corrugated board and then glued the pieces to the circle. We talked about layering, bigger to smaller, etc. When they were dry, we talked about warm and cool colors and the girls painted their work with acrylic. After that was dry (yes, class session 3) they used oil pastels to add details, rub over the corrugated sections or whatever they wanted to add. They are so awesome and very Prekinder-like!

First Grade Hearts

First grade looked at Jim Dine and created their own artwork with a heart theme. They created stencils and used oil pastels to create the hearts, adding patterns, overlapping, etc. After finishing with oil pastels, they painted over the entire work with black tempera paint (some hand dish detergent added to it), then rinsed it off gently in the sink. Loved em!