Thursday, December 27, 2012

Art Club - Painting

I saw this idea on this blog: http://lostpersonshomeschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/winter-art.html

I had to adapt a bit for my age group (I had k-5 all at once). So I put the tape on for the trees ahead of time. We talked about painting the "negative" and they really enjoyed using the watercolors. They turned out great!



Monday, December 24, 2012

Fluffy snowman

We did holiday centers again with 3rd and 4th grades. I found a cute idea on pinterest to use shaving cream and glue to make a fluffy paint to make snowmen. We used q-tips as "brushes." I combined that idea with an old watercolor project I used to do where we painted snowmen snowglobes. I think they turned out great!




Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Back to School Bulletin Board

Well, school is starting back up. This means a lot less crafty time for me. I always love doing my back-to-school bulletin board, so here is this year's board:



Winter Bulletin Board

To go along with our opinion writing, I had the kids respond to the prompt "Winter is a great season." We were able to crank this out in one session, they were superstars and worked so hard! And I'm so glad I'll be able to leave it up into January.