Welcome to a new year of fun-filled art blog posts, hosted
by…moi! How has your 2022 started off? I didn’t stay up til midnight on New
Year’s Eve. This tired teacher needs her sleep.
My super students have been hard at work/play with different
materials. We started our new year with a trip to outer space and fun was had
by kids big and small. (It seems outer space is a guaranteed hit with kids. Is
it because of the mystery of space? The unknown? Star wars? Who knows, but the
kids have enjoyed this project, and who am I to question good fortune?)
Kindergarten practiced coloring, cutting and gluing planets
and rockets to their outer space scene.
First grade made portholes, as though they were in a
spaceship, looking out at the galaxy.
Fourth grade did outer space scenes with a 3-d Styrofoam
planet for some spatial depth.
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| See how these half spheres make our scenes 3-D? |
Sixth grade also did outer space scenes with Styrofoam planets. I love how these imaginative kids added so many individual touches.
Seventh grades made scenes with 3-d planets, too. Lots of seventh graders were missing from class because they were quarantining. But fear not—the remaining students did their best to make even more noise than usual, thereby filling in any gaps in the noise department. The noise-o-meter was at 100%!
Of course, I wore my outer space dress to teach, along with planet earrings I made and a head dress I also made from Styrofoam and wire. I like a good theme…
Second grade took a journey back in time to the age of the
dinosaur. The kids colored dinosaurs and added backgrounds to round out the
scene. I gave them a choice to color printables with realistic dinosaurs or friendly ones. After all, they are young, and I didn't want to give anyone nightmares...
Third grade is hard at work on art projects but you’ll have to wait a month to see theirs.
Fifth grade experimented with solar paper. Are you familiar?
Solar paper undergoes a change when it is in sunlight, so the kids put objects
on it and brought it into the sun for two minutes. You get an impression of
your items on the paper. We added colorful borders to complete our project. Who
says science and art aren’t friends? Not I.
And 8th grade did watercolor paintings with a
theme of their choice. This was a quick project I threw in at the last minute
as I didn’t have all the materials I needed for our next project. Sometimes
pulling something out of a hat at the last second works pretty well.
As February tiptoes closer, we’re starting new projects in
the art room. Let’s meet back here in a month so you can be dazzled by my
students’ imaginations.
And in other happy news, have you noticed that the days are
getting just a tiny bit longer? Spring is coming!
