Got Coffee Filters? Beautiful (super easy) Spooky Silhouette

With the recent blood moon and lunar eclipse, this lesson fit right in with the season! 

When they are finished, they can decorate the outside with construction paper crayons

This beautiful and very seasonal art...designed by my 4 yr old with a sharpie,

only lasted 2 days...so sad

This adorable seasonal sharpie art is two weeks old and showing no signs of decay...clearly you should get yourself some coffee filters and markers and create some awesome seasonal ART today 

This is how I tell them how to fold it "First to a taco, then to a pie, third fold's a pizza, now give it a try"

                                        I left out the picture of the next step. Color it!   
                                                 then...................

Spraaaaayyyyyyy!!! front and back! (on a piece of paper so it doesn't get everywhere!)

                                           Fold the white paper and  Smoosh it!!

                                                   

                             Gently open the coffee filter and lay it on the paper to dry

Trace the coffee filter with a white crayon

Draw a line inside that line and cut on the inside line. You can add a hill if you want.

glue the coffee filter with a thin line of glue

Then for the fun, decorate with sharpies and BOOM silhouette amazingness!

Dia De Los Muertos Animals

I am so excited about our next project I just had to post it before its finished. Fourth and fifth will be making these skeleton animals as we learn about the culture of Dia De Los Mertos "Day of the Dead."

We will tie it into science by learning the names of major bones in the skeleton. We will learn about why we have bones and what organs each bone protects.

We have done lots of projects for Day of the dead and you can see them if you click the label on the side of my blog.

We will combine the intricate designs of the sugar skull with animals, like these artworks created by various artists below!

For this project, students bring a small plastic or wood animal from home. I painted them black with spray paint first

You can pierce their ears with a tack first to add earrings later to decorate

Let dry outside for several hours

Use white acrylic paint for the bones, and give students photos of the skeleton of their animal to reference

Then add decorations, add color, roses, neon paper, sparkles, etc.

These aren't quite finished, but I will update the blog with photos of all our skeletons when completed! I can't wait! 

Fall is HEre!!

I'm back!! I have been so busy this year, I cannot believe its already October and I have not updated since MAY!!! We had an amazing summer, it just flew by so fast!

                                     This is our newest family member, "Bunbun" that we got this summer. He's the cutest bunny alive!

So many things have changed and I am now teaching at a new campus.  We are doing SO many fun things in the art room so I will continue to post for a few days until I catch up!! Today for my first super long post, I wanted to write about some of the fun Fall projects we have going on! Students have been learning about pumpkins and creating some beautiful Fall pumpkin patches and scarecrows! We even started some cool glow in the dark spider webs today!

Third grade made these watercolor pumpkins that turned out beautifully! They also used glow in the dark paint for the stars and moon!

That had to draw 3-4 overlapping pumpkins and we gave them value and made them look shiney!

Fourth grade made these "Pumpkin Piles"

They used chalk pastels, and glow in the dark paint for the stars

 Kindergarten and first grade made these awesome scarecrows! They all turned out so cute and different! We added straw for the hair and buttons. First we talked about how to make the face happy, sad, mad etc. They started with black crayons doing a draw along,

Then they used oil pastels to color the shirt, corn, crow, eyes, nose, and grass lines.

 Then they painted the sky, grass, and the hat with watercolors

Kindergarten and First grade made these squirrels last week. We did a draw-along first, and then they colored the pumpkin and squirrel with oil pastels. Next they glued a white acorn on him and painted it gold. They painted the tail gold too. I made little arms that they glued on and added some fur. The kids added details that reflected themselves. I love how this student added a chef's hat because he likes to cook!!

 Bunbun is ready for HAlloween, are you?