Week ? Art Project

I haven't posted anything for art in the last few weeks, we did the usual Christmas and winter crafts. The thing is, we ate them before I could take a pic of it.. ha ha!

X5 did a shapes and cotton balls snowman, haven't taken any pics of it yet, will post when I finally do. A7 finished the lines art unit, she made these really cool bookmarks I have to laminate them and make sure I take pics of that as well.

Week 13 Art Project

We are back to our line unit! This week A7 was supposed to create a maze, a line that doesn't end!

X5's art project, everything that very hungry caterpillar ate!!!!

Week 12 Art Project

This week for art we just did a couple of pumpkin crafts and Halloween pics. We are getting the house clean and organized for when Nina and Gram pa come tomorrow!!!

I'll leave you with a scary picture!!!
You can see all of her eyes..... scary!!!

Week 10 Art Project

I just realized after I did the week 11 post for art, that I have no post for week 10 art. The reason for that is the kids didn't do a "project", instead they got to take pictures with my old camera since I got a new one last Wednesday. They took pics of everything!! I'll share a few of them.... there was too many ha ha!!!

Week 11 Art Project

This week both kids did a color by number art project. We are still doing fall art and this seemed really fun.

This is suppose to look like a mosaic... we still don't know what it is!!

This is X5's project, as you can see it is a squirrel with a nut!

For coop this Friday the kids have to bring something to share as part of show n tell. It doesn't matter what it is as long as you can share it with the other kids. X5 wants to make cookies for everybody but A7 has been on a Chinese writing kick and she wanted to give everybody a Chinese symbol that she herself wrote. So here is her show n tell for Friday!
We are going to laminate them and hand them out to all the kids on Friday. Yes, we know what symbols mean!

Here's a few freebies of the kids this morning!
A7's not fully awake yet while X5 is already dressed are ready to go!

Week 9 Art Project

This week we are taking a break from lines!! Since we are rowing The Story About Ping, I decided to let X5 work on a ducks art project. He had fun coloring and then gluing the yellow pieces of felt to the duckies!

A7 got to work on some Autumn art work. This time she used the "feathering technique".
Outline the leaves using a red and orange crayon, lucky for us Nina got A7 a set of
Crayola True to Life Crayons(They create wonderful texture and give a "painting" look).
Then outline the acorns with orange and yellow crayons(again we used our true to life crayons) and the caps of the acorns with a brown crayon.

Then use an eraser to pull the color toward the center of the nuts and leaves. This produces a "feathered" look!

Week 7 Art Project

Line Delight: Create a design beginning with two lines, they may be horizontal, vertical or diagonal. They must travel in the same direction and one line may be curve and the other bent.

I can tell that A7 really understood what was being asked, the book always shows examples, of course, but she really went for her own thing here!!

Color by number.
X5 did really well with his art project considering he doesn't enjoy coloring that much. I helped him out in the beginning just to show him what he needed to do, he did all the rest!

Week 6 Art Project

This weeks' project: Curved or Bent? Combine curved lines and straight lines to create interesting designs.

• two squares(6") of white construction paper.
• on one square use only straight, bent and angular lines.
• on the other square use only curved lines.

X5 had a cool project today, a mosaic Autumn tree.

He is going to be taking this to COOP for show and tell, since this week we are to show something related to music or art!

Week 5 Art Project

Continuing with our line unit, this week we learned about other types of lines:

• zigzag
• curly
• scalloped
• looped
• wavy

Today's project was to divide a paper into 8 squares(2 papers) and draw all the different types of lines in each square.

X5's art project was to use different shapes to form a person!

Week 4 Art Project

Now that I have a plan for art this year and a curriculum to follow, other than the FIAR art lessons of course. I'm going to start posting our art projects every Wednesday!
This will be a great way for me to document what we do for art every week.

There are 7 units in this book, we are probably going to cover four of them this year.
This week we are on unit 1: Learning about lines

• Diagonal
• Vertical
  
• Horizontal

Here's a few pics of A7's lines art project for this week.

Assorted color construction paper strips.

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

Diagonal lines

We had a lot of fun with this and I have plenty of strips left over for later use.