Crayon resist fish bowl Kindergarten

Our final Kindergarten project was to draw a fish bowl and then learn how to draw some fancy fish in the bowl.  We added fun things that might be in a fish bowl then colored with crayons.  We did wet on wet technique by wetting our entire paper with clear water and then spreading liquid watercolor paint over the bowl. 

Good Job Kinders, see you next year!

Flowers with BLING 1st Grade Chalk/Glue project

Our last project of the year was a flower with "bling", otherwise known as gold glitter.

I actually did this last year to save 150 glued projects when the humidity caused the papers to droop on the drying rack and the glue all puddled up.  I hated to throw away all those projects so I decided to re-glue the flowers and add gold glitter.  The first graders were so thrilled with the surprise glitter lines they didn't even care about the glue puddles! This year I added the glitter the first time to add a little bling. 

We do this as a chalk and glue project with glitter lines instead of glue lines to outline our flowers.  I have the kids use a paper towel wrapped around their finger to spread a small amount of chalk into each section. This keeps the chalk from getting too dusty and out of control.

 
 
 
Last step is to add details on top of the rubbed chalk such as lines, patterns or seeds.

 

BEAUTIFUL!

Pirate Ships! 2nd Grade

This project comes from DEEP SPACE SPARKLE. They did it as a paper composition but I wanted it to be a drawing and crayon resist watercolor lesson for the last two art periods of the year.  The second graders loved learning how to draw a "complicated" pirate ship with several sails and lots of details.

 

After drawing our ships, we colored with crayons.

 

Last step was to watercolor paint the entire picture over the top of the crayon, creating a

crayon resist project, always a favorite technique. Too bad I had to send these home and could not display them in the hall, they were amazing!