Back to school installation

 I always like to begin each school year with a collaborative project. This year our students studied muralist Kelsey Montague. Kelsey is famous for her street art, particularly her painting of wings. For our wings, each student designed an individual feather. When all assembled our wings are super eye-catching, everyone has a new favorite selfie spot!

Halloween Hoopla

We had a few fun Halloween projects going on this year. First grade created colorful spiderwebs and Kindergarten painted their yearly jack-o’-lanterns. Fourth-graders had a different take on jack-o’-lanterns, they painted expressive pumpkins. Lastly our fifth-graders worked on spooky silhouette collages. 

Wild Things

Kindergarten read "Where The Wild Things Are" and then designed their own "wild thing".  Students painted their monsters with watercolors and made a collage background.

Only One You

Pre K and Kinder read the classic "Only One You"

In response, Pre K glued together small paper collages and Kinder designed and painted their own fish.

Dart Frogs

Kindergarten began this project by reading several books about frogs.  In one non-fiction book we learned about Dart frogs which are poisonous and very colorful.  Afterwards students chose a color for their frog, painted their spots, cut out and assembled them.

Making our Mark!

Every year I read students "the dot", it is a great story of how art can go from intimidating to inspiring. This year we did several projects to honor the dot.  Kindergarten made paper collages as well as painted dots.  First grade did wonderful Styrofoam prints.  I just adore how colorful they all look together.

Turkey Day

I don't know about you but I think it would be un-American not to make any little crafts for Thanksgiving.  Here is a preview of some of the Thanksgiving fun we had in Art with grades Pre-k through 1st.