Recycled Toy Sculptures/Found Object Sculptures/Contemporary Sculptors

Artist: Freya Jobbins 

http://www.freyajobbins.com

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Artist: Robert Bradford

http://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/78480

Pop-up Flower Gardens with 2nd Grade

 These turned out awesome this year! My student teacher helped me teach part of this lesson...but her placement was up before she got to see the finished product. This is a 3-4 day project.




                                      

Day One: Drawing and painting the background...landscape review! 

Day Two- Read "Planting a Rainbow" and collage stems and leaves...start creating flowers. 

Constantly reminding kids of the order of the rainbow...I don't think I've said Roy G. Biv so many times in my life. 

Monet's 3D Waterlilies

I saw this on Pinterest and loved it! I don't know whom to give credit to.

Here's the photo from Pinterest...

DAY ONE:

We briefly discussed Monet and wrote his name in our Idea Books. I showed them some paintings of water lilies and we did a water lily sketch. Next we glued down strips of blue paper. I cut a bunch of different blues...

The trick to good waves is 3 dots of glue. One dot on each end of the strip, glue it down like a bridge and then one dot in the middle. 

Here's my teacher sample....can't wait to do the water lilies next class! 

Frog to reference

http://drawsketch.about.com/od/drawanimalsstepbystep/ss/drawfrog_4.htm

Monet Printables

Link to Claude Monet document below: 

http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/notebooking/biography/claude_monet.shtml

http://www.letmecolor.com/2008/06/09/free-flowers-coloring-page-of-a-water-lily/

I had my 3rd graders make Mother's Day cards awhile back and I showed them how to make the waterlilies and they turned out really well! 

This was the lily pad that we decided would be a good card as is....they wrote a special message on the back.