VanGogh Sunflowers Fourth Grade

My intern and I did our VanGogh sunflower project in a different way this September. We had the 4th graders use paper cut in shape of flowers and add it to their composition of oil pastel.  This was a very good lesson in problem solving and planning out the middle, petals and stems of the paper flowers in an oil pastel background.  Very beautiful as well!

I love how each project turns out so differently, even though we all used the same materials.

Reindeer Sculpture Fourth grade

Found on Pinterest, this project looked like a great painting and sculpture project for fourth graders.  These 3D pizza slice holders were given to me by the kitchen staff and made the perfect deer head shape.  A flat piece of cardboard in this shape was shown in the original project but the idea of having 150 heads to cut out made me look for alternatives! This was a wonderful way to recycle these pizza slice holders and make art at the same time.

First we cut out ear shapes and taped (and stapled them0 to the edge of the box. Students chose a color for the main part of the face and used tempera paint.

 When the face and ears were dry, students selected two twigs for antlers. Duct tape worked best to secure the antlers on back of the reindeer head.

 The final touch was to add glitter, recycled eyes and nose, and some bling to the antlers!
The students liked their sculptures a lot and it was a great 3 D experience in building a form using different materials.

 

Great job 4th grade artists!