For this grade 4 project, I teamed up with our STEAM teacher. Students researched an endangered animal of their choice with STEAM. Then, they used an images of their animal to create a work of art in art class.
Op Art
I have done Op Art with 4th grade in the past. I show them one way to do it, they try it, some get it, some sort of get it, and some don’t. But even in my examples of ‘famous artists’ creating Op Art, there is multiple ways they could be doing it. Soooo I did a little extra work. We still talked about Op Art and how they used contrasting colors, but I created three different worksheets breaking down how to do an Op Art technique. They had a choice of doing an easier version, a slightly harder version, or a more challenging version (I think I had one student do this one, and he never finished!). I think this was better for everyone. If one version wasn’t working out, they had the choice to do a different one. I will definitely be doing this lesson again next year.
Texture Monsters
Kindergarten created these fun texture monsters! Week one: we poured paint (using only two colors and clear glitter paint), folded our papers, and squished to reveal a really cool design. The next week I brought out googly eyes, foam shapes, pom poms, and crayons for students to create their monsters from the now dry design they had created!
Here’s some of the cool monsters Kindergarten created…
Art with a Message
Grade 5 One Point Perspective
For fifth grade’s last project of the year (and of elementary school!), we studied three ways to show one point perspective. They were allowed to chose which way that they would like to show one point perspective and the medium that they wanted to work in. Obviously, most of them wanted to paint!
Here is a sample of some of the work:
Pop Art with 5th Grade!
Fourth Grade Perspective Cities
Negative Space Collage
Grade three students learned about mixed media techniques like ripping paper and overlapping. The following class, they learned about negative space. They created lines using black paper and some fancy cutting techniques one can use with regular scissors.
The following is a sample of students’ work:
Third Grade Abstract Art
Service Learning Project
Students at Southside Elementary created posters for a local organization. K-1 looked at artist Romero Britto for inspiration. My older kids looked at murals and brainstormed for positive images and words we could use in our posters. Finally, students had the opportunity to chose the works that would be donated.
Ms. D's Art Room 