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 .

"I and my life"

A little while ago I ran a session in Room 5 (1st Grade) on Marc Chagall's master piece
"I and the Village"

Chagall's artwork was greatly inspired and directed by his happy childhood memories and he often painted his dream world in full color.

After we talked about Mr. Chagall and tried to identify pieces of the painting, discussed how he tried to tell his story through his dream-like pictures and his often upside-down world the kids went to work and created their OWN STORY about themselves.

We pasted the paintings, which were done with oil pastel, onto colorful backgrounds and Mrs. A and the kids added a short story about the artists to the masterpiece.

These MASTERPIECES are now proudly displayed in our main building's hallway.

Please come with me and see:

The Stories of the Kids of Room 5

Super, my little artist friends!
I am SO PROUD of you guys!

I had the pleasure of watching you blossom into amazing, little artist over the last few months.
My, how you have grown ... way too fast!!!

Art Attack on Room 5 - was a short story :)

This lesson was an Art in Action lesson.

Self-Portraits - Grade 3 / Room P5

This session was lead by Mr. and Mrs. Patague since their son attends this class.
And just like this an art lesson turned into a family event :)
The session must have been taught by some very talented people. The results are excellent!

Just see for yourself ...

This portrait impressed quite a few volunteers when we sorted the pictures later.
Apparently it's an exact image if the little artist. A very talented young man!

We have one more class to go and then all 3rd Graders will have completed their first art session.
But they won't have time to relax.
Earth Day is here soon and everybody needs to put on their recycling artist hats, create, reuse and be resourceful.

Art Attack at Curtner is in full motion!