4th grade castles

Great new lesson this year. In the past I have done pop up castles but I wanted more details and time to create architecture. Watercolors were used to develop skills in technique and color mixing. These were big ! On 18x24 drawing paper. 

2nd grade snowmen

This lesson was new this year. I wanted to put a twist to typical snowmen - winter artwork I do. I began by reading the book Snowmen at night" students discussed the funny things a snow person might do while we are all sleeping. This and the movie Frozen have been enough to really motivate my students for the project. We also discussed space and how artists use space to make their art more interesting. We discussed positive and negative space. The students were told that they were not allowed to draw the entire snowman, and that they had to use positive space to fill their artwork. 

They outlined with oil pastel and used tempera to paint. They finished by finding an item to stamp print the falling snow.