Japanese Cherry Blossoms

Perfect project for K-3!  The photo pretty much explain it all but the quick steps were:

1- paint the paper one color
2- Use paint wash and a straw to blow across the page from all angles to create the branches
3- add small red&pink abstract shapes to create the look of the cherry blossom on the branch

Roy Lichtenstein Cartoons

This is an old project from the start of they year i never posted.  I did this with my 5th graders but could be easily done with any grade.  We looked at cartoons in the paper for inspiration and learned all about Roy Lichtenstein and his cartoon art using benday dots.  The kids then drew their own cartoons using sharpies and the filled in using only the primary colors and flesh tones to create their cartoons.  We used q tips to create the benday dots.  Fun project but took a lot longer than i had expected.

VVG Cotton Ball and Q Tip painting and Starry Night

Found this idea on a fellow bloggers sight and had to try it out!!! My 4th and 5th graders used only cotton balls and q tips to paint Vincent Van Gogh's Wheat Field with Cypresses... the results are really neat considering what i gave them to work with.

VVG Starry Night

2nd and 3rd grade worked on VVG's Starry Night by re-drawing it using construction paper crayons.  We looked at his use of vivid brush strokes and used the crayons to try and imitate.  A fun way to learn about one of my all time favorite painting! and one that most of the students had seen or heard of before.