4th Grade - Starry Silhouette Skylines

After studying artist Van Gogh, students can cut out symmetrical building and paint expressive skies with warm or cool colors.

2nd Grade - Clay Ladybugs and Environments

Students can use pinch pinch and scoring techniques to create clay ladybugs.  They also used paper, rocks, sticks, yarn, and other supplies to create their ladybugs' environments.

1st Grade - Paper Weavings

Students can weave paper strips together to create a colorful checkerboard weaving.

4th Grade - Tree Ornaments

Students can create a zoomed in collage of Christmas tree branches and ornaments using wet on wet painting techniques with analogous color theory.

6th Grade - Community Gardens

Students can create community garden models out of recycled and donated recyclable material using pre-planning outlines, problem-solving skills, and complex cutting/hot gluing.

4th Grade - Self-Portrait Paper Dolls

Students can use knowledge of body proportions and complex cutting/designing to create miniature self-portrait paper dolls. 

4th Grade - Military Paper Dolls

Students can use knowledge of body proportions and the different branches of the military to create correct paper uniforms for paper dolls, achieved through complex cutting and designing.

4th Grade - Patriotic Symbols

Students can create a symbol or word using glue contour lines and red/white/blue patterns.

2nd Grade - Remembrance Poppies

Students can create a multi-media Veterans Day project using tempera painted coffee filters, a watercolored newspaper collage, and a note letting us know "A Poppy is to Remember."

2nd Grade - Symmetrical Name Bugs

Students can create a symmetrical bug using folding, scissor cutting, and reflective writing.