Tie Dye Marker Project First Grade

Not sure where I picked this project up several years ago, but it comes in handy for a holiday week when only a few classes have Art.  First graders enjoyed choosing 3 of their favorite marker colors and following along with my directions to create these colorful tie dye patterns.  We started with 3 wiggly spots about the size of a quarter.  Then students used a different color to go around the spots with short lines that go out from the middle.

 

Kids continued in a pattern of three colors, each color going around and out from the one before it.  The spots grew and grew until they touched in the middle. Lots of elements of art in this simple marker picture!

Patterns kept going until we reached the edge of the paper and then I added a matching frame.  This took one 35 minute art period for most of my 1st graders and was the perfect filler for a week when most of my classes missed Art because of Thanksgiving.