School Auction Art Projects

I was asked to have my art students create a grade level project to be auctioned off at the PTO spaghetti dinner/auction fundraiser.  This required finding something that approx. 150 children per grade level could work on as one project during their art periods. Luckily, Pinterest had several ideas for group projects that I was able to get ideas from. 
I talked to the kids about how artists can benefit their community through community art projects or by donating their work.  The students were excited to help the PTO and work on one large piece of artwork as a grade.  Hoping to raise lots of money for field trips and events through our donation!

Kindergarten thumbprint cityscape. When all kids have added thumbprints I will remove the green stencil and this colorful city will be displayed in a glass frame.

1st graders each colored a cupcake and 150 cupcakes are being applied to this repurposed furniture pallet with gloss medium.

 

2nd graders are using paint markers to make radial patterns on a spray painted table. They already learned this technique on an earlier lesson with paper and oil pastels so students are familiar with making patterns in a circle instead of a line. With so many kids needing to work on this small table, each child makes one pattern of the circle.

 

 

3rd grade is similar to the 1st grade project except each artist colored a beautiful teacup!

 

4th graders are painting a large tree with concentric circles. They learned about this art style in 3rd grade so it is going very smoothly. Using acrylics on wood.

 

 

The 5th grade thrift store chair I spray painted white is going to be covered with zentangle designs.  Again, they did zentangles earlier in the year so they can quickly create their doodle in a space on the chair and then return to working on their independent art project.