Winter One Day Projects "Nutcrackers" and "Penguins"

Are you in need of some quick and fun Winter One Day projects? Get out your paper,markers,oil pastels, scissors and glue! Here are a few fun projects we have done the past few weeks!

First is the Nutcracker!
Our 4th graders are performing "The Nutcracker" this week and have practiced for months. (they did AWESOME!)
For this project start with a piece of drawing paper cut vertically in half.
Fold the paper into thirds.
The first square will be the head and hat, then the next square is the body and arms.The legs and platform are in the last square. They can be creative and make their own hat or their own nutcracker character.

Students got very creative with their nutcrackers. We added tons of GLITTER when they were done!

This year we are making nutcracker ornaments.

I bought some black and white fur, sequins, and rhinestones. Also sparkly pipe cleaners for the top! 

Ok the next project is penguins! Here are the steps, kids got really creative and added so many fun details and pretty backgrounds. Of course we also covered them with plenty of glitter.

This is our new friend, Dustie. She is an angora bunny and will be visiting the art room as our new class pet soon!!!

Tablet picture Tuesday (around the art room)

Excuse the poor quality of these photos! Sometimes, all I can do is snap a pic with the iphone or Ipad for the sake of time! It has been a busy few weeks! Here are a few pics from around the art room!

So a few weeks ago I got really obsessed with this streaming LIVE camera of a bald eagle family in Florida! My students LOVED watching the baby eagles and I left them streming on the wall while they worked. It was SO exciting when the mom or dad would show up to feed the babies with a HUGE fish or some such small mammal. Here is the link if you want to show your class...they will be in the nest until April.

http://www.ustream.tv/SouthwestFloridaEagleCam

 We made drawings and added feathers for fun! We learned lots of fun cool facts about the eagles too!

This is our new friend, Clover

He is a red footed tortoise and will be our new class pet!

Today kinder and first grade made some beautiful tp tube heart stamped artworks. I glued the hearts to a piece of cardboard to make them last a little longer.

 They used watercolor and made a background of squares. They had to fill their paper with squares and paint lightly

They used Prang Glitter Watercolors. They are not very bright, but the kids don't seem to mind, they just LOVE glitter

After a while the stamps get saturated and the ends start to get squishy, making the edges thicker

Rainbow Fish Lesson and Tricking Kids into Sharing!

Yesterday I read The Rainbow Fish to kindergarten and made these collage fish. Students used templates and cut them out. We drew the lines of the face and scales together with black crayons and markers. Then I gave them crayons and oil pastels to color and decorate. Then I passed out two tiny peices of sparkly paper and told them to share.

The book is about how the fish is the most beautiful but doesn't want to give his scales away and loses his friends. He finds it is better to share and have friends at the end.

I walked around the tables to see who was sharing the paper and who was being greedy!

I listened for kind words and waited to see who had the least scales.

Then I told them that I had been listening and told them the specific children who had shared and the kind words I heard them say. Those students got their own sparkly paper and they got to go around with some glitter paint giving dabs of glitter paint on each student's paper!