Kindergarten Art

I love Kindergarten art!!! I love how much growth I see as an art teacher. I love how different each students art turns out. I love how excited they are about every project. I love how proud they are of their masterpieces when they are finished. And Kindergarten kiddos are hilarious always.

I wanted to highlight a few of my favorite Kindergarten projects from this year so far. We started out the year talking about shapes and color. My kindergarten artists created a ROY G. BV caterpillar out of shapes. This project was great because they got to practice shapes, colors, drawing, painting, cutting, and gluing all in one project. And I loved the finish product.

Artists used cardboard to create texture in their grass.

Two of the awesome finished products!

My kindergarten artists created self-portraits using shapes for their next project.. We read the book "the Colors of Us " by Karen Katz. This book celebrates different skin tones and diversity and I love it! My kiddos got to practice their shapes again! Learning to cut and hold scissors correctly is so important. So I love projects that give my kids the opportunity to practice cutting. Once they had all their shapes cut for their project they started assembling their self portrait collage. And I must say these turned out Ah-Mazing!

My sticky tables were so worth it! These kiddos collaged some masterpieces!

Hallway display!

My favorite time of year is fall! I love pumpkins, pumpkin coffee, my birthday, my anniversary, my husbands birthday, leaves changing colors, if it happens in the fall I love it! So of course I had to throw in a few awesome fall projects. These Kindergarten artists did phenomenal on this art project. We read the book "How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grown" by Wendell Minor. We talked about landscapes and how a landscape is a picture, drawing, or painting of outside. The kiddos picked out the landscapes in the book (which most of the illustrations are landscapes!). Afterwards we talked about horizon lines, foreground, and background and we identified these parts in some of these pictures. And they did awesome. Then it was time to get to work so we use oil pastels to draw a horizon line and then colored in the sky with the oil pastels. Then we set to work on the grass. We previously had made mad green painted paper using the colors blue and yellow. we cut triangles these papers into triangles and glued  them to the bottom half of our landscape. Finally time to draw a pumpkin!! I demonstrated how to draw the pumpkin on the clear touch. The artists used a black oil pastel to trace their lines and we painted them with yellow and red paint and voila....the red and yellow paint made ORANGE!!

I love my job! I get to make messes for a living and hang out with the funniest people.

 Talk Soon!

Sarah