One Day Projects for Thanksgiving

 

"Mayflower Collage"

1st Grade

Draw water with blue oil pastels.

 

Add background information.

Draw a boat on brown paper and cut out.

 

Cut white sails and glue to paper.

(Draw two lines coming up from boat for sails.)

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"Crazy Turkey Collage"

2nd Grade

 

 

 

Trace a circle and cut out for turkey's belly.

Cut out a head with a neck (bowling pin shape) and glue behind circle.

Cut a triangle for the beak.

Add eyes and wattle.

Use long strips of paper to make accordion fold legs.

Cut paper for wings and feathers.

 

 

2nd and 3rd grade

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"The Mayflower in a Bottle" Drawing

4th Grade

 

 

(this could be a one day lesson if you color with crayons...we plan on painting them with watercolors next class.)

 

Jim Dine Pop Art Hearts!

Well, I've been sick all week but I have managed to squeeze out a deepspacesparkle.com inspired project about Jim Dine the pop artist. I've been doing this with Kinders and 1st grade and I am so impressed at their abstract expressionism! I wish I had more projects that allowed for this kind of freedom within the bounds of the project.

Step One: Trace a heart with a pencil on white drawing paper. I cut the paper to 12"x12" squares. And I precut about 20 hearts of different sizes and spread them out on their tables.

If they don't get the heart perfect, no worries. It looks more hand-drawn that way which is always better.

Step Two:  Outline your heart or hearts and start adding your own designs, colors or patterns. Be creative! I also showed several images of Jim Dine's heart before beginning the project for inspiration.

We used oil pastels because they are painting with liquid watercolors.

They could color in as much as they wanted....leaving a little white paper peeking through is good for the next step though.

Step Three: Paint all the white space left with liquid watercolors.

1st Grade RAINBOW FISH!

We recently read the story "Rainbow Fish" and it's also avaliable on the best website ever: http://www.storylineonline.net/

Anyway, the kids created a fish...we echoed the steps together and they outlined the fish with a variety of colors using crayons. Then we painted them using liquid watercolors...the colors are so great. Then, to tie it in with the story, we added one shining silvery scale because the rainbow fish was only truly happy when he shared his beautiful scales with his friends.

It was a lot of fun!