American Flag Painting (Handprints for "Stripes" & Fingerprints for "Stars")
Tiles for Father's Day
Porthole Drawings
Falling for Foreshortening!
Tropical Bird Paintings
The fourth graders used a variety of paint brushes and sponges to create these beautiful birds. They started out with their handprint and added the rest of the body to create some really colorful creatures!
Christmas Elves & Reindeer Bags
The fourth graders made Christmas elf ornaments with pipecleaners, beads, and wrapping paper scraps for the hat. They also decorated a paper bag as a reindeer to bring their ornaments home for the holidays!
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Color Wheel Records
This lesson is a great review of the color wheel for the students! I had each student create a symbol on cardstock (some chose something as basic as a circle or square, others were more creative and chose a musical note or PacMan) and cut it out. They duplicated it until they had 12 shapes and colored each one with an appropriate color on the color wheel.
Monster Portraits
The fourth graders are experimenting with several painting techniques to create a 3D monster just in time for Halloween! They used salt and plastic wrap with their paint to achieve the look of different textures.
This week, the students will cut out their monster's body and add all the details!
This week, the students will cut out their monster's body and add all the details!
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God Gives Us the Gift of Love
At the beginning of each school year, the students' first art project is a piece relating to the school's theme. This year our theme is "God Gives Us Many Gifts." The fourth graders created self portraits from paper and depicted the gift of love in their pictures by using a heart as their symbol.
These projects will be hung around the school as a border and will remain all year to remind us of the many gifts we are blessed with.
These projects will be hung around the school as a border and will remain all year to remind us of the many gifts we are blessed with.
What Happened to all of the Fourth Graders??
In preparation for Back to School Night, the fourth grade class created self portraits with crayons and oil pastels. They set them up at their desk so their parents could guess where they sat!
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ARTWORK BELOW THIS POINT IS FROM THE 2010-11 SCHOOL YEAR.
Origami Puppets
The fourth graders learned how to make origami puppets. I showed them step-by-step how to make a "fortune teller" and then they used construction paper to add eyes, a nose, mouth, tounge, teeth, ears, fangs, etc. to their creature!
Weather Forecasters for Father's Day
The fourth graders made weather forecasters from yarn as a Father's Day gift! They had to measure out the yarn, then cut and braid it. Each forecaster is ttached with a tag that reads:
Just hang me outside!
If I'm wet -- it's rainy.
If I'm stiff -- it's chilly.
If I' moving -- it's windy.
If I'm gone -- it's rob'ry!
Just hang me outside!
If I'm wet -- it's rainy.
If I'm stiff -- it's chilly.
If I' moving -- it's windy.
If I'm gone -- it's rob'ry!
Pencil Cans for Mother's Day
The fourth graders used a recycled tin can and turned it into a beautiful pencil can for Mother's Day. They used a long piece of string to glue onto the can, looping it around several times until it covered the whole can. The students added a flower as a decoration using paper flowers, yarn, and buttons.
Starry Night
The fourth graders learned about artist Vincent Van Gogh and created their own version of his "Starry Night" painting. They followed a directed drawing as they sketched their picture with pencil, then used oil pastels to add color. Their dashes and swirls of color really look like Van Gogh's!
Porthole Drawings
The fourth graders looked at photos of portholes and discovered several types of sealife you could find through the view of a porthole. They created their own porthole drawing and included, fish, sharks, plants, seashells, ship wrecks, jellyfish, and lots of other mysterious objects on the ocean floor!
Koi Fish Paintings
The students learned about Japanese Koi fish and created their own fish on a background they painted with tempera cakes.
Leaping Lizards!
The fourth graders created a sense of movement in their paintings of lizards! They learned a wax-resist technique and applied it to their picture. They outlined their lizards with oil pastels and painted a wash over their entire picture, discovering that the wax in the pastels resisted the paint.
My Beautiful Place
Each fourth grader wrote about the most beautiful place they have seen/imagined in Writing class for a contest. In Art, I had them illustrate the place they wrote about. They sketched out their idea in pencil, then added color with their choice of paints, markers, pastels, or colored pencils.
Color Wheels on Records
This lesson is a great review of the color wheel for the students! I had each student create a symbol on cardstock (some chose something as basic as a circle or square, others were more creative and chose a musical note or PacMan) and cut it out. They traced it onto 11 more pieces of cardstock and cut them out for a total of 12 identical symbols. During the next class period, we did a review of the color wheel and color mixing. They spread out their symbols and colored each one with the appropriate color. Then they arranged their colors in the correct order on their record and I hot glued them. While they waited, they colored a mini color wheel and glued it to the middle of their record.
Candle Jars
The fourth graders used baby food jars to create a candle holder for Christmas. They used Mod Podge and tissue paper squares to decoupage onto their jar, then chose a ribbon to match. We put a tea light in each jar. Their parents' faces will be sure to light up when seeing these beautiful colors glow!
Fox & Bear Collage with Painted Leaves
The fourth graders used real and artificial leaves to help draw leaves in their background and painted them with metallic paint. They chose either a fox or a bear to draw and color with markers or colored pencils, and glued it to their background.
Falling for Foreshortening!
I introduced the fourth graders to the term "forshorten" and we looked at examples using this technique. Each student was challenged to create a forshortened portrait of themselves falling in mid-air. They started by tracing their shoes onto the bottom on their paper, and then their hands. They drew their head, neck, and body, then added details and facial features. Each student was asked to create a design or texture on the bottom of their shoes and observe the lines on the palms of their hands to draw on their picture. They had fun imagining why they were falling and thought of a fun background.
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