Winter Tree Collage - 4th Grade!

Our 4th graders designed their very own papers to create these wonderful tree collages. We also collaged the foreground, middle ground, and background! (Which we've never done before!) These turned out just great!

Positive/Negative Snowflakes - 4th Grade!

In 4th grade, we learned about lines of symmetry and creating a negative part of a shape by cutting part of it out (the positive!). The line we created by gluing them side-by-side is the line of symmetry! How cool is that?!

The cutting was mighty tricky, but we got it!

Pointillism Snowmen/women - 3rd Grade!

Sorry, its been so long since I've posted fellow art lovers! (The holidays were super crazy!) Time to jump right back to the art world with we have been working on!

Our 3rd graders learned about pointillism last year in 2nd grade. (Pointillism is where we fill in our artwork with tiny dots of color so that from far away, it looks really neat!) We also learned about having our subject not show all the way in our picture - this changes the balance of our artwork. (Which is really awesome, too!) and because I love mixing mediums, we added details with construction paper and oil pastels! These turned out absolutely lovely!

Snow Globes - 1st Grade!

This week, our 1st graders are making paper versions of one of my favorite holiday decorations! Snow Globes! The kiddos today had a blast making these and they turned out just great!

Silly Sock Snowmen - Kindergarten!

In Kindergarten, we've been learning about mixing our drawings with cutting and gluing. To ring in the colder weather, we made some lovely snow men and snow women with silly colored socks!

These look awesome!

~Ms. Carney

Drawing the Grinch - 1st Grade!

This week we learned how to draw the Grinch from Dr. Seuss' wonderful Christmas tale, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The kids have been having an awesome time with this project. After we finished our drawings, we all sat together and read the story. Here are some of the finished projects below!

 These kiddos did a magnificent job! Happy Holidays, everyone!
~Ms. Carney

Kicking off the Holidays!

The holiday spirit is in full swing here in the art room! All the decorations are up and our special friend from the North Pole is back again this year!

This is our elf, Peppermint! She watches over all of the boys and girls throughout the day and reports back to Santa at night. When she comes back in the morning, she's in a new spot! What a trickster! Here are a couple of pictures of her sneaky spots!

I'll keep you posted on all her elf antics throughout the next couple of weeks! 

~Ms. Carney