Crayon art for my classroom

I finally made a melted crayon piece for my classroom. I hot glued the crayons on the top then melted them with hair dryer. I painted the quote with acrylic paint.

 I think it turned out pretty nice.

Penguin in the Summer

This was an end of the year project that the students did in 1-2 days. Their job was to draw a penguin and add a background that shows the penguin on summer vacation...Got a few sunburned penguins and some eating ice cream or at the pool. :)

5th Grade Projects

My 5th graders have been working so fast! I'm always trying to stay one step ahead of them because they finish their projects quickly.

The first one is a Lego Style Portrait. They had to create a Lego character, fill the page, and color the background. Unfortunately,I only got a few really great ones on the Lego style portrait.

The nerd Lego man was my favorite!

Next is a one point perspective project. You've probably seen it before:

 GREAT results on this project.

 And here is our version of Andy Warhol's art : Pop Art Scratch Art!

They had to draw a symbol that represents themselves and tell me why they drew it.

That's a paintbrush, if you can't tell :)

 AND finally the displays from our Fine Arts Festival:

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!