Patterned Landscape

Created with layered paper, oil pastels and marker.

Pretzel Bird Nests

Students learn to create a bird from the front view and made a birds nest from pretzels.

Clay Bird

Torn paper Owl

Torn paper Owl Collages

Underwater Scene

Underwater crayon/tempera resist

Patterned Landscape

Patterned Landscape: Created with layered paper, oil pastels and marker

Rainy Day Ducks

Rainy Day Ducks

1) Instruct the student on how to create a duck with an umbrella
2) With watercolor paints, paint in the duck and umbrella
3) Add lines of green paint below the duck for grass
4) Add dots of blue paint in the sky for rain

Grazing Bison

Grazing Bison

1) Create a simple background using tempera paint
2) Instruct the student on how to create a Bison using mainly circles and cylinders
3) Color the bison with crayons or oil pastels
4) Cut out the Bison and glue them to your landscape

Picasso Flowers

Picasso Flowers
1) Trace child's hand, open and thumb up
2) Add details like winkles, nails and jewelry
3) Draw 6 stems, above and below the hand
4) Use crayon to color the hand, stems and add a small circle to the top of the stem for the middle of the flower
5) Paint the flowers (I did one for each color of the rainbow) using watercolor paint

Close-Up Polar Bears

 

Close-Up Polar Bears
1) Create a colorful mountainous background with oil pastels
2) Using thick white tempera paint, paint a large upside-down "u" in the middle of your paper and paint it in
3) Add two smaller "u" for ears and paint them in
4) After the paint has dried use black crayon to draw in the nose, eyes and ears