Klimt Trees

Here is another project from our "Artists from different times and places" unit.  They examined Gustave Klimt's imaginative trees and created their own in the style of Klimt.   

Cityscapes

1st graders are currently larning about different artists from different times and places.  Here, we examined Paul Klee's cityscape, specifically looking at how it is constructed of many geometric shapes.  

1st graders then collaged their own cityscapes.  

Giraffes

Here is more kinder art from our art of Africa unit.  I love using shapes to help teach the students how to draw and construct animals.  Here, they learned about giraffes and used only rectangles to build its shape and form..

Homemade instruments!

While studying the art of Africa, Kindergarteners made these instruments inspired by the sounds of the African Shekere.  We covered paper towel rolls (that I had been hoarding for way too long) with construction paper that we had colored.  Inside, we put rice and beads and sealed both ends with packaging tape.  The starch from the rice coated the sticky ends from the packaging tape!

Kindergarten: Where we are in place and time

Kinders just began a unit about art around the world.  Each week, we explore art from a particular country.  This week, it was Japan.  Here, we examined Koi fish in Japanese art.  We used simple shapes like ovals and triangles to draw our own fish and colored them with colored pencils.