They too worked on a two session project.
The first session was spent creating a background with rolling horizons and vertical field lines.
We talked about perspective drawing and how to draw objects up-close versus in the far distance.
The kids used colored crayons to outline the horizon and the fields, added a sun and some small details.
Liquid watercolor was used to fill in the fields and the sky and they watched how magically white clouds appeared after they painted their skies blue (we had used white crayons to draw clouds on the white paper).
This week they got to work and create their scarecrows out of colorful paper stock, wool, buttons and wooden coffee stir sticks.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Mrs. Beverly Ybarra for the donation of these beautiful card stocks,
to Starbucks for the donation of the stir sticks and to Teresa Lim & her mom for the donation of buttons and fabric scraps.
As you can see we put all of your goodies to GOOD USE! :)
After two completed sessions the kids have some super awesome cool (I am starting to learn the Elementary language very well :) scarecrow collages to show off.
Every respectable scarecrow must have a light saber!
This pretty lady has a matching hat to her flowery dress, the latest in scarecrow fashion!
This young man is rather stylish in his skinny pants and shirt.
I am sure flower-girl from above is eying him up :)
I am SO proud of these kids and their creations.
A room full of 8 year olds and it was so quiet and everybody was working so hard on their masterpieces.
LOVE IT!!!!
Scarecrow Art Attack was a HUGE success!
This project was inspired by one of my favorite kids art blogs DeepSpaceSparkle.
Thank you Patti for sharing and for the tutorial!
Love the work! I am wondering where you started with the horizon lines - working from the foreground to the background or vice versa? Did you build from the original line?
ReplyDeleteWe added the hills first. One large hill and then the other ones on top. Kids could chose how many hills they wanted and then we added the vertical lions to add depth and perspective. There is a tutorial on Deep Space Sparkle, thats weber we got the idea from. Thanks for visiting my site :)
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