First Grade - Love

Love Prints

Check out these LOVEly art projects created by the first graders!

In these art projects students learned the process of printmaking. Students created a stamp using foam. With a pencil, the foam was indented creating a pattern. A pattern is a design that repeats and never changes.  Then students used a brayer to roll ink across the stamp. Once inked the stamp is pressed onto a paper. Student repeated this process several times until they successful printed four pages. Students then collaged their prints and patterned letters onto a background paper.

1st Grade- Color Science Experiment

Building upon the previous project, first grade students are again thinking about color. In this project, students predicted the results of a color experiment. Together we added vinegar to baking soda and watercolor to create fuzzy experiments. Once we observed what secondary colors appeared, students drew beakers and filled them with primary colored watercolors. Students learned a technique of watercolor that allowed for the colors to mix on the page resulting in a secondary color. Students collaged these beakers onto a background of bubbles. The students colored the bubbles primary colors. Where the bubbles bumped, the students colored in the secondary colors.

First Grade - It's Okay to be Different Self Portraits

It’s Okay to Be Different Self - Portraits!

In this project, 1^st grade students read and discussed the book It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Park. The students discussed with one another how we all are different, which makes us unique. In class the students looked at the portraits in the book. The students observed how Mr. Park illustrated the portraits using vibrant primary and secondary colors.

To create these portraits, students mixed the secondary colors from primary colors. Once the painted paper was dry, students collaged them together to create self-portraits. A self-portrait is an image that an artist creates of himself or herself.

Second Grade - Color Unit part 2

In the second part of the color unit, students used the painted paper they created in the previous class to create fall scarecrow collages. Students discussed the two types of shapes, geometric and organic. The students began this portion of the unit by creating the backgrounds for the collages. Students used the primary colors to create various colors in the sky and the background. Following this process, students collaged objects in the middle and foreground. For example a barn might relate to a rectangle with a triangle on top.

Kindergarten-Playground for Ants

These amazing sculptures are created by some of the Deerfield and Hanlon Kindergarten students. In our first project of the year, students examined lines. After reading the book A Straight like Wonder by Mem Fox, we talked about how lines can be seen in all different ways: zig zag, bumpy, curly, and straight. In our projects we thought about how lines can jump off the page and become 3D. Using paper strips, the students folded, curled, and looped their papers to create 3D lines.