Week of 1/23/23 - UTK, K and 1st grade

The younger grades returned this week - I don't know what it is about the holidays but all the kids look taller!!

Since Valentines day is around the corner, I decided to have heart themed lessons with different techniques for each grade.

UTK created hearts with a white crayon and used a resist technique  with watercolors. We took our time practicing heart drawing on watercolor paper, flipped the paper over and used the crayon resist technique.

Kinders created mosaic hearts! Students used ribbons to sew/ lace through holes around their black card stock and then cut paper to glue inside a large heart. We used gold/ silver paint sticks (have I mentioned how much I love this paint sticks?). It was SO much work prepping materials - punching 20-25 holes on every card stock numb but this is easily one of my favorite lessons and I plan on repeating it next year too!!

1st grade students created hearts using the element of art "value". We compared and contrasted the hearts created by artists Romero Britto, Chris Uphues, Jime Dine and James Goldcrown. We received a generous donation of canvases from the VAPA Foundation which I was happy to use for this lesson. Each student received an 8x10 canvas, and drew a large heart on it. They used rulers to divide the heart into different shapes and 1 tempera paint color to use. They painted 2 shapes inside the heart after which I gave them white paint. They mixed it to create a tint - I loved hearing their squeals as the color changed. There was a rich conversation among students after which they painted their 1st tint and then more paint to create and paint tint 2 and 3. Line patterns with paint sticks in the background to complete their work.