Operation Beautiful

As a fun little project I thought I would introduce my art club students to Operation Beautiful. Which was started to send positive messages to females about self image. It is a really great program and I love how artsitic some of the post-its are.
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Students started creating their own post it's to specific teachers to be put on their door. One thing I would do differently is to talk about more generic sayings that could be posted on other teachers doors that they may not know. They loved the idea of this project and came up with some awesome things! 

Egyptian Profile

The 6th graders learned about Egyptian Art before making their profile. I actually was about to start a lesson and quickly changed it due to them learning about Egypt in Social Studies. Cross-curricular learning whoop whoop! Most of the students turned out great. When I have more time I will display more examples but here is one.

Canyonscapes

When browsing through these awesome blogs I found a lesson I loved. It was based off the book WoW! America by Robert Nubeucher. When I went to go purchase the book it was ridiculousy expensive ($100) due to the fact it was now out of print. Some how I found it for $18 and I've noticed amazon has acquired some used copies.

With my 5th graders I read them the book WOW!America! They loved the colorful illustrations especially the one of the Grand Canyon. When they created their landscapes instead of using tempera paint I used watercolor. I give the students plates so they were able to mix up colors and they turned out awesome!

I have found my 5th grade class this year have been the ones that really shine. They are more open to making their own artistic choices!

Art

Expressive Line Design

The only rules to the games were...
1) Lines needed to be controlled
2) Lines had to be repeated atleast 5 times
3) Fill the whole page

color was optional*
and look at the results:

2D & 3D Arrows

Sketchbook Assignment: 2D & 3D Arrows

I always struggled with what to give the 6th, 7th and 8th graders as sketchbook assignments. I didn't want to just give them a list of choices and have them hand me in something that took them 5 minutes. I found an awesome resource which had a variety of sketchbook resources, and students examples. You will see that some of these sketchbook assignments I received turned out awesome and the kids loved doing them! Who would of thought sketchbook assignments could be such a great time!?

Kindergarten's Wocket in My Pocket

There's a Wocket in my Pocket! - Dr. Seuss

As a class the Kindergartners were read the book  There's a Wocket in My Pocket by Dr. Seuss. After reading the book and looking at the illustrations students created their own pockets with Wockets peeking out. Students used cut paper and glue for Wockets, along with black paper and white colored pencil for their pocket design.