Paul Klee's Cat and Bird

After listening to The Cat and the Bird by Geraldine Elschner, Kindergarten students did a guided drawning of Paul Klee's Cat and Bird. Students outlined with black marker and painted with watercolor paint.

PreK Family Portraits

Pre K students sponge painted the body and heads of their family members. Once dry, they drew details with permanent marker.

Black & White Symmetrical Designs

Fifth grade students created these black and white designs to demonstrate reflective or radial symmetry.

Henri Matisse Color Cutouts

Second grade students listened to Matisse the King of Color by Laurence Anholt and created these colorful cut outs using geometric and free-form shapes.

Zentangles

5th grade students created Zentangles by following instructions on how to create and repeat basic lines and shapes. Students were encouraged to invent their own Zentangles, as well.

Cup Weavings

4th grade students cut 9 slits in these paper cups, then wove yarn in between the slits. 

3-D Animal Masks

5th grade students created these animal masks using newspaper, cardboard, plaster gauze, paint, fur and feathers.

Wire Sculptures a la Alex Calder

Students view some of Alex Calder's wire sculptures then create their own of a person doing everyday things. Students use wire scraps to add accessories such as clothing, hair, and sports equipment. This student created a girl walking her dog and watering flowers with a watering can.

Venetian Masks

5th grade students learned how people of Venice have been wearing masks for centuries and how mask wearing erased the division between social classes. 5th grade students then created their own using paint, glitter glue, gems feathers and cardboard attachments.

Aboriginal Art from Australia

3rd grade students learned the three characteristics of Aboriginal Art; X-Ray style, symbols and dots. Students chose either the X-Ray style or symbols as the subject of their art and they all created dots in the negative space (background) of their painting.

Healthy Lifestyle Cafeteria Mural

Third grade students created this Keith Haring style " GET YOURSELF MOVING" mural.

Monochromatic Tessellations

Fifth grade students created tessellating shapes by creating a template of a tessellating shape and tracing it on their paper. They then chose one color and created tints, shades and tones of that color to  paint in their shapes to create a monochromatic painting.

Healthy Eating Cafeteria Mural

3rd grade students created this EAT BETTER, FEEL BETTER mural in the cafeteria.

Frida Kahlo's The Frame

2nd grade students learned about the life and career of Frida Kahlo for Hispanic Heritage Month. They re-created her The Frame self-portrait, each student making a separate part. 

Hispanic Heritage Month Display

Students from each grade level learned about a Hispanic Artist or a Hispanic Tradition. Kindergarten students learned about Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, 1st grade students learned about Mexico's Day of the Dead, 2nd grade students learned about Spanish artist Joan Miro, 3rd grade students learned about Spanish artist Salvador Dali, 4th grade students also learned about Mexico's Day of the Dead and 5th grade students learned about the significance of the sun in Mexican culture.

Self-Portrait Puppets

Students built these self-portrait puppets out of a soda bottle with the bottom cut off, newspaper and plaster gauze.

Cheetahs in the Wild

1st grade students drew these cheetahs and glued then upon a tissue paper "wild" background.

Foil Fish

Students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade created fish using tacky glue, cardboard, aluminum foil and sharpie markers. 

Clay Mandalas

Students in grades 3, 4, and 5 used uncooked pasta to create radial symmetry in a slab of clay. After bisque fired, students painted the mandalas with watercolor.

Bean and Button Mosaics

Fifth grade students created these Mosaic Designs with beans and buttons.