Amazing Scarecrows - A Collage

The second graders have been VERY busy as well.
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!

Pumpkins growing WILD

We are having WAY too much fun with the Halloween theme!
While the older kiddos are working on Scarecrows and glowing pumpkins the little peeps are going wild  and created their own AWESOME pumpkin patch in Room 17 over the last two weeks.

This was a two session project.
Last week the kids drew their pumpkins with black oil pastel, then filled in the pumpkins with RED paint.
They then applied YELLOW paint on top and turned their pumpkins ORANGE with some super cool color highlight effects.

We added BLUE to the mix and the kids colored their leaves in cool shades of green.
There were several lessons embeded into this fun exercise/project.
Again the kids learned abut primary and secondary colors, about shading, cutting is a big one and they mastered it VERY well and last but not least they had to assemble their collage on their own and added some final touches to make their own, unique piece of art.

This week they came back, super excited as always, and went to work to cut out their pumpkins and leaves and then arranged them on a black construction paper. 

We gave them green oil pastel and white chalk pastel to add vines, stars and a moon.

 et voila ...

Kinder Pumpkins in the Dark

The results are SO SUPER COOL and FUN to look at.

I'd love to cover all of the walls in Room 17 with these cute pumpkins but I know my little artists are super excited to bring these guys home to show them off to mom and dad.

Pumpkin Patch Mission completed in form of an orange Art Attack this time.

Glowing Pumpkins

Our third graders have been "playing" with oil pastels and chalk pastels, added some bling (gold crayon) and created some super cool glow-in-the -dark pumpkins.

We started with a black sheet of paper, outlined the pumpkin with black oil pastel and then filled it in with yellow and orange. Students then added a bit of gold on the top to give it some shimmer.

Next they outlined the pumpkin with a white chalk pastel and gently smudged the edges.
Last they used a while oil pastel and added a while zig-zag line around the pumpkin to make GLOW>
Add some stars and maybe a moon and you have some very amazing glowing pumpkins.

GREAT job guys!!!
Some of the best glowing pumpkins Milpitas has ever seen :)

GREAT fun with the 3rd grades and another successful super spookable Art Attack on Curtner Elementary.

Credit for this amazing project belongs to the wonderful Kathy Barbro from Art Projects for Kids .