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.

Mouse Paint

Our Kinder kiddos tried themselves in primary and secondary colors and learned the basics of mixing colors.

We read the book "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh and turned the story into a literature-art session.

The kids learned that mixing blue, yellow and red creates orange, green and purple ... and also
A LOT of fun :)

The little guys understood the concept of mixing very quickly but the attempt to create three flowers with the newly mixed colors was a bit harder.

BUT the heart of the lesson was not about drawing the "perfect" flower but rather to get hands-on experience with paint, mixing, cleaning your brush before dipping it into the next color and to make magic happen on your white piece of paper.

And that they did indeed!
Bravo to all of our Kinder kiddos!

These most beautiful flowers the world has ever seen!!!

A colorful Art Attack on the Kinder-kiddos was yet again VERY successful :)

Cherry Blossoms In September

Our Kinder kiddos from Room 1 got their first hands-on experience with paint and stamping today.

The goal was to introduce our little people to painting, holding a paint brush (fine motor skills and dexterity) and using different objects for stamping. 

But mostly it was about having FUN!

A BIG thank you to Mrs. Judy Miguelino who donated 35 kids aprons to Room 17. 

They came very much in handy today!

The kids used a paint brush to create their tree with branches.

We then used random household items like bottles for flower printing, as well as corks and bottle caps.

Here are the Cherry Blossoms the little artists from Room 1 created.

ENJOY!

Very LOVELY creations my little friends.

Another Art Attack on Room 1 was successfully completed!