The Tiny Seed

First grade students created these flowers using mixed media after listening to The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.

Positive and Negative Space

Fourth grade students created these designs using positive and negative space.

Hot Air Balloons

First grade students created these hot air balloons.

Pop Art Portraits

Fifth grade students had their photo taken with a digital camera, printed and enlarged on a black and white photo copier. Students used tracing paper to trace the major shapes of their face; head shape, hair, eyes, etc. Students flipped the tracing paper over onto white paper and re-drew their portrait by re-tracing so the graphite transferred onto the white paper. Students outlined w black marker and colored in with funky colors a la Andy Warnol.

Go Away Big Green Monster

First grade students listened to Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly and used a collage technique to create these monsters. Students focused on using contrast to make sure the pieces of their monster showed up.

The Grouchy Ladybug

Kindergarten students listened to The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle and created these woks of art complete with the grouchy and friendly ladybug, the leaf and aphids.

Positive and Negative Space with Keith Haring

Fourth grade students had the opportunity to pose in front of the class while their classmates created gesture drawings of them. Those gesture drawings were re-drawn onto colorful paper, cut out and glued onto black paper to show the positive and negative space of the cut out.

Adinkra Cloth

Fifth grade students created these Adinkra prints using symbols from the African country of Ghana.

Pinch Pot Monsters

Third grade students created these pinch pot monsters. Students first created a pinch pot and then used a slip and score method to attach facial features appropriate for a monster.

Planting a Rainbow

Kindergarten students listened to Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and created their own rainbow of flowers.

Insects with Symmetry

Second grade students created these bugs using a collage technique and creating symmetry.

Animal Masks

Fifth grade students created these 3-D masks of a personally selected animal. Students built off of a plastic human face form with newspaper and covered that newspaper amateur with plaster gauze. Students finished the masks with acrylic paint and fur.