Kinder Wacky Bird Collages

Recycled Paper Garden Mural/ Mother's Day Cards

Fun Friday Project/Mother's Day Creations

I wanted a big art project to hang out in the hallway since it's that time to give the kids all their art. I hate when the hallways are empty..so I made this big "garden" with paper and showed the kids how to make big flowers. I did this lesson with K-3 and it turned out great!

I referenced my "Be smART" chart...2nd grade just finished making paper gardens...so we could get ideas from these samples. 

Here's our scrap bin...it doesn't normally look like this...we had been 'digging' for colors. 

Some kids chose to create a pop up Mother's Day Card before making a flower for the garden.

Our finished garden!

Kindergarten Art Book: 4th 9 Weeks Project

I borrowed this wonderful idea from a fellow metro art teacher and this is my favorite end of the year project for Kindergarten. It's perfect for one day projects that are small and easy to store. After we make about 5-6 pages, we put them all together and the kids take their books home. 

Day One: Cover Page "My Art Book" 

I just used Word to create the layout for the pages...and I print copies for the kids to draw on. It's an easy to get good info on the page for them...then we glue these to a piece of 9"x 12" colorful construction paper. 

Day Two: "Cool Cat/Hot Dog"

The kids love this page...they love to paint with watercolors, but they always get a kick out of the phrasing. We have to review warm and cool colors then we draw the animals together. They get to outline with sharpie then paint. 

I'll have to go take more photos of the remaining pages...but you get the idea. 

Day Three: "Piet Mondrian Collage with Primary Colors"

Day Four: "The Very Hungry Caterpillar with Secondary Colors"

Day Five: "Symmetrical Butterfly" 

Day Six: "About the Artist" - Assemble books

Penguins in Antarctica

First we painted a cool color background with tempera paint. I encouraged them to create a pattern. 

I had two tables set up as the "snow stations"...once they had painting all the white space of their background, they could come add dots of snow with wooden sticks and white tempera paint. 

Day Two: Creating Penguins...we did a step-by-step process using construction paper. 

Group Project Option: I did a collaborative Antarctica collage with some other classes for our upcoming art show. This was really fun! Minecraft penguins were pretty popular with the boys.