2nd grade magazine cut outs

The 2nd graders looked through magazines and chose one image to cut and glue to a white piece of paper. They then had to draw the background around their cut out. Their background had to fit what ever it is they cut out! We talked about proportion and how the size of their cut out relates to those other objects around it. We also talked about horizon lines and coloring in the entire picture.

What creativity! These really turned out great and it was a great way to get the creativity flowing this school year!

4th grade Rock Art

4th grade just completed a project based on petroglyphs and pictographs. We talked about how the first form of "art" was found on the walls of caves millions of years ago. Petroglyphs were carved into rock where as the pictographs were drawn or painted on to rock.

We drew an animal, cut it out and then taped it on brown paper (to look like a cave wall.) We then used black ink and a brayer to roll the ink over the animal like a stencil. When we peeled the animal off we were left with an outline of our animal...this was our petroglyph. Our pictographs were symbols used by Native Americans on the walls of caves. These were done in oil pastels.

The results were fabulous! Students took a quiz over their knowledge of Rock Art!

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