6th Grade Food Project

Here are just a few pictures of my latest 6th grade project. This is a fun one I do every year. They get to pick their picture of food and also their background of plate or paper. On top they glue down only construction paper and they have to use small tiles like a real mosaic.

New Stuff

On to bigger an better things! Our first two shows are over and now its time for another.

I got some new art supplies this past week just in time for a new project! One of the things I am excited about trying is my new SCENTED paint for our Australian Aboriginal Dot paintings that 4th grade is doing. I just love getting new art supplies!

Fine Arts Festival

Tonight is our Fine Arts Festival art reception. Here are my two boards:

 

I am so proud of my students!

First Show

Our district's first show was last Tuesday and we had a great turnout. Three of my students' artworks were chosen from both of my schools.
Here they are:

 And here are some of the other pieces that were on display. I work with so many talented people (and look how talented their students are too!)!

Hoot! Hoot! These are Cute!

All of my 3rd and 4th graders made these wonderful owls from recycled toilet paper rolls. I saw the idea on Pinterest. Here is a link:
http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/273453008593884495_OmsYRXoJ.jpg

First we discussed the difference between shape and form, and 2-D and 3-D. Next, we folded the top part to make the head and ears, taped it, and painted the whole thing one color. Finally, we glued on wiggle eyes, a beak, and wings. Scrapbook paper or wall paper make great wings. Also I let them use crazy scissors when they cut out the wings. Since a lot of students ALWAYS use too much glue, this is a good practice for them to use small dots of glue for everything since they are using small pieces.

Two advantages to this project:
1. Even though these are 3-D, they take up very little space because they are small.
2. It only takes 2 days, and then the students can take it home!

Latest and Greatest Projects!

First Post! I love teaching elementary art and lately I love finding projects via blogs or Pinterest. So here I am, joining the blogging world! I teach in a 3rd-6th grade environment, and at two different elementary schools. I wanted to start out with with my latest and greatest projects the kids are doing right now. The 5th graders are working on Falling Back Self-Portraits. This is the first time I've tried this project, and so far the results have been successful. I've seen this project done by some of my art teacher friends before.

I found some great instructions for it on the Oodles of Art Blog

(http://oodlesofart.blogspot.com/2009/04/falling-back-in-space-portraits-3rd.html)

Its turning out to be my favorite self-portrait project I've done yet. Here are some of the ones that just got finished:

( Please note that some of these have things cut off because of the way I took the picture and then had to crop it.)

 I love the details on these and the creative backgrounds they came up with. Sometimes I underestimate my students!

Also I wanted to share the guitars that the 5th and 6th graders just finished. They LOVED this one. Its a good project for the boys to get into. I saw a lot of guitar playing during the making of these. Here's what they look like on my wall at each school:

Finally I wanted to post pics of what I made myself yesterday-crayons! I have wanted to do this for a long time, and then I kept seeing it on Pinterest and on people's blogs. I finally decided to do it. I used all of the tons of extra crayons that I had (the students helped me peel off the wrappers), and my toaster oven in my art room. Here's how they turned out:

 

 The beginning, with the crayons starting to melt in the silicone muffin mold. (got it at Target in the dollar spot section for $2.50)

 The crayon hearts after they melted in my trusty toaster oven.

I let the crayons cool and then popped them out of the silicone mold. I loved how they turned out. I'm probably going to give some to my 6th grade helpers and I'm definitely mailing some to my nephew for Valentine's Day!