PreK "Ain't Gonna Paint No More!"

This book and art project are both just plain fun! We read the book "Ain't Gonna Paint No More!" and talked about the rhyming and the patterns in the book. The girls drew themselves in sharpie, and then painted all over their drawn self-portrait. They loved repeating the title chant!

PreKinder Aquariums

This idea came from a presentation at the Texas Art Education Assoc. conference several years ago, and I have always loved it. The PreK went for a walk to the library and observed the fish in the huge tank. We talked about the similarities and the differences, and what other items they observed in the aquarium. Back in the classroom, they drew a fish and cut it out. That cut out fish became the template for a clay fish that they cut out from a slab of clay. After the clay was fired, they painted the fish - now they have 2 fish, a paper fish and a clay fish. The students painted a piece of matboard in cool colors, added rocks and seaweed, and then added the fish to create their own aquariums.

a 7 year pen giveaway..

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Kandinsky for Kinder/Primer

Our Kindergarten and Primer students are creating artwork based on Kandinsky's circles artwork. These will be photographed by a parent and made into a class poster. The girls loved painting these! As they laid them out to dry, the entire classwork was wonderful, I had to take pictures of their work. I can not wait to see the finished poster for the Benefit!

A close up of one of the squares during creation.

8th grade ceramic vases

8th grade students used the slab method to create a tall vessel. They decorated the surface with textures and added items to enhance the vase. These are awesome! They are glazing them now, more pictures after they are fired!

Chess Set by 1st Grade

For the annual benefit, each 1st grade class is creating a chess set out of clay. I usually do not help with the benefit class projects, but I have been intrigued by this idea. The benefit has a western theme this year, so the classes read books, brainstormed, and came up with chess pieces in their homerooms. They came to my room and created the pieces in clay. There are 16 students in each class, so they each made a pawn and one larger piece. Here are some examples, as greenware.

The armadillo in the front looks like he was already run over by a truck! The armadillo are pawns for one set, hearts (the heart of Texas), and horses are pawns for the other two sets. Some pieces are cowboy hats, boots, bluebonnets, horseshoes and horse heads. They are pretty darn cute!

Kinder - Eric Carle continued

An almost completed collage!