Stained Glass

2nd grade created these "stained glass" artworks for our Renaissance unit way back in.....November?? I am behind. 0_o

 These are page protectors cut down. We used colored Sharpies to add our patterns. Don't they look great on the windows? :)

Surreal Animals

Inspired by Dali's elephants, 4th grade created surreal animals from clay. They could be regular animals or mixed up animals, but they had to have long legs. 

Dali's Space Elephant Statue

These were a blast to make and the results are adorable! Googlely eyes make everything great, right? 

Sunflower Weavings

This was a lesson inspired by Cassie Stephen's circle weaving project.  She also has a few videos of how she teaches this lesson. I used her vocabulary and it was very helpful for them to understand the steps. We started by painting our plates with warm colors.

The next week, we added the warp lines.

After that, we added the weft strings, or the "circlely bits" as we called them. No matter how far they got or even if they missed a couple of strings, these still turned out nice and look great in the hallway. Is it spring time yet?!

Monet's Bridge

1st grade created their own take on Monet's Bridge paintings. We started by using glue and paintbrushes to apply tissue paper as a background.

After that dried, we cut out the bridge, lily pads, waterlilies, and other plants from paper to add to our drawings.

Love these colorful results!