Year 3 Collages

The dog and the use of an orange for the sun is a cute touch!

This student originally planned out a soccer net but changed it to a drive-in movie theatre.  

The hoop is 3D!

"Chocolate mountain"

I have always wanted to do magazine collages with my students. I am extremely happy that I attempted collaging with my year 3s. They did extremely well and took care and effort into tearing and cutting the pieces of magazines (our rule of thumb was no larger than a 50 cent coin). This art lesson was a great opportunity for students to problem solve as some students had to change their original plan as their plan and some students had trouble deciding what parts of their picture they had to fill first (to make collaging different areas the easiest).

This was a 3-4 week project. (although a handful of kids took 5 weeks!). I gave students a planning sheet before they started on their good piece. We also talked about having a balance of different textures from different magazines. I wish I took more pictures!

Proud Art Teacher!

Year 3 Bas Relief Sculpture

2nd time around with better results!!! Last year I had students do their piece on the theme of "Your favourite things" or  "What do you love". This year I just let students chose whatever image they wanted.

Students layered cardboard onto a larger piece of cardboard (we talked about the importance of careful cutting and having more than 1 layer to create visual interest). This year students used glue sticks to place the tissue paper on their work (last year we used pva and it was super messy). For the final touch, I rubbed the metallic oil pastel over their work (last year kids went oil pastel crazy and when too much oil pastel is unfixable!)

Prep Still life flowers

Preps looked at real flowers (that I hand picked on my walk to school) and drew what they saw using permanent marker.  We looked at the different lines and shapes we could see in the flowers and leaves.

Next, we used bleeding tissue paper and sharpies to add colour to our art work. We talked about having a balance of colour on our page (I only gave 10 minutes of colouring using sharpies). Students had fun creating different colours by overlapping the tissue paper.

Beautiful results!

Year 5 and 6 work

5 weeks left of school!!! To keep my year 5s and 6s motivated with their art I made a board with pictures of possible projects they could do. I used pictures from this year and last year.

Preps Learn to Weave

Preps were inspired by nature and animals that weave.

I was lucky that preps have had experiences in weaving during investigations in their classrooms so there were little to no breakdowns in each class. We weaved the first day and decorated using texts the next class. Some preps really blew me away with their colouring skills.

Lovely

This Little Gem

I had some of my kids sharpen pencils for me... and one girl said that she wanted to take a picture of her pencil shavings because it was arty.  Magic.

I take 4 (year 3 and 4) classes to the college campus (which is a 5 minute walk from our school) and I was asked to put up some of their art exhibition. Since the art show is on week 4, students only managed to do the metal embossing and printing. Thankfully I had some prints left from last term.