Still Life Paintings according to Pre-K.

Pre-K students looked at Henri Matisse's 'Apples on a Pink Table Cloth' and created these apple still life paintings.

Jasper John's Numbers

Kindergarten students used tempera paint to create the numbers and used tempera cakes to paint the negative space.

Hybrid Animals

Fourth grade students created these hybrid animals by combining two or more animals. 

Mr. Seahorse

Second grade students used tissue paper to create a cool colored background as the ocean and warm colors to create the seahorses. 

Pumpkins

Pre-K students created a spooky background using the end of a toilet paper tube and violet, blue and black paint. I love the expression created through collaging the facial features on top of the pumpkins.

Rainbow Fish

Kindergarten students created a bubble background by painting with the end of a toilet paper tube for their Rainbow Fish.

Expressions

Second grade students drew self portraits with every facial feature except their mouth and eyebrows. The mouth and eyebrows were put on brass fasteners to be able to be turned around to create different types of facial expressions.

Dia de Los Muertos

Fourth grade students used collage as a method to create these Day of the Dead skeletons participating in an activity of their choice.

Starry Night Multiplication Arrays

Third grade students viewed Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night and created a night sky using swirling s lines and showing individual brushstrokes. Students then created buildings in the village and turned the windows of the buildings into multiplication arrays.

Glad Monster, Sad Monster

Pre-Kindergarten students listened to the story Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley. Students used pre-cut shapes to compose a monster's face.

Cats

First grade students drew cats and colored them in with textured rubbing plates.

Mixed Media Line Designs

Second grade students created a variety of lines using oil pastels and painted in the negative pace using tempera cakes.

Word Self Portraits

Fifth grade students created these self portraits using descriptive words and sentences. 

Roll-A-Picasso

Who ever invented this is a genius! Second grade students used dice and the Roll-A-Picasso facial features sheet to create these wacky portraits.

Foil Sea Turtles

Second grade students created these sea turtles by designing the shell with small pieces of cardboard glued to a larger piece. Students covered the design with aluminum foil rubbing their hands firmly over the foil to make the shapes appear. Students colored in the shapes with Sharpie markers. The head and the turtle's arms and legs are made from cardboard too.

Georgia O'Keeffe's Flowers

First grade students listen to My Name is Georgia by Jeanette Winter and create flowers in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Coil Pots with Swirls

Fifth grade students created coil pots and built up the pot walls using by creating swirls. 

Coil Pots

Fourth grade students created these coil pots.

Symmetrical Dragonflies

Second grade students created these dragonflies and created symmetry in the wings.

Mexican Sun Reposse

Fifth grade students created these Mexican Suns in a piece of aluminum.

Wire Sculptures a la Alex Calder

Third grade students created these wire sculptures of people. 

Roll-A-Miro

These Joan Miro inspired works were created by a Roll-A-Miro game that was found on Pinterest. The second graders that created these loved it as did I because the game freed their minds to create anything as did Joan Miro.

Owl Babies

Kindergarten students created these owls by collaging newspaper and brown paper scraps onto a textured background that was created with a wax resist. Eyes, beaks and feet completed the owl babies.