Tag Archives: primary art teacher

Grade 2 Lines Lesson “Crazy Hair”

Grade 2 learned all about Lines and began creating self-portraits using lines for their hair.
Students developed skills in drawing and painting. Students learned how to use the lines of design in a portrait.

Monsters Love Colors

Grade 1 Monsters ❤️ Colors:
After reading the book we went over our primary and secondary colors.
Students then became monsters 🤭and scribbled all over their paper using two primary colored markers to make a secondary color.
They saw the magic ✨when they added water and painted over their scribbled paper. Once dried we used the secondary color oil pastels and applied “Lines”.
Then we made the two colored monsters that made the secondary color or “Magic” happen.
A great layered lesson to introduce colors and lines.
Grade 1 IB PYP Multi-media lesson on Colors
Just add water and Let the magic happen!
Wow is that Orange?
So Yellow and red make Orange!!
YESSSS!!!!
OMG…PURPLE!!!
Let’s get those Lines of Design in there!!!

I am…

Students used adjectives to describe them and created an eye catching art piece using words, design, color, and lines.
IB PYP Lesson “All About Me” Unit
These are so cool! Students developed skills in blending and shading with color pencils.
So Creative!!!
AWESOME SAUCE!!
OHH La La!
Just Amazing!

Haunted Houses

Haunted House Display using my Grade 2’s spider web window project which focused on lines and 3 dimensional spiders.
Grade 3 learned how to draw haunted houses and spider webs, they also incorporated a 3D spider for a dramatic effect.
Black oil pastel was used for the webbed background of haunted houses.

Grade 1 Lines, Primary Colors, Self-Portrait, Collage

Grade 1 learned all about “Elements of Art” Lines and Color (Primary colors). They drew a self portrait on newspaper.
Students glued their primary color strips and last their self portrait on top. A layered unit with amazing results … and the kids Loved it! Ohh La La!

How “The Grinch” Stole Christmas!

Source: How “The Grinch” Stole Christmas!

Tar Beach

For Black History month in February I teach my students about the African American artist Faith Ringgold and her style of art, which was Quilting.  My favorite story to do is Tar Beach.  I have my students imagine that they can fly, and ask them to draw themselves flying over their favorite place with their favorite person.  they then write a story behind their picture around the frame.  We then add lots of fabric to frame their story and place them altogether to design our very own class quilt.  Here is a picture of my door.  I like to always motivate them with a door design theme.

Tar Beach Door
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                                            Grade 3 Student working on Story quilt

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                                                                          Story Quilt Display

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Tar Beach Class Quilt