3rd & 4th Grade Project: 6 Lines

Our 3rd and 4th grade classes explored using different lines in this project.  We used six lines: straight, wavy, curvy, zig zag, squiggly, and dotted/dashed lines.  We learned that when a line crosses itself it makes a shape.  These shapes created from lines crossing are what gives our project its unique look.

Students used each of the six lines to cross the paper in some way.  Once they used the six lines, they were free to add any additional lines that they wanted to.  After the lines were complete, the students outlined their pencil with either black or colored marker ( student's choice ).

We then went through our designs, coloring all the new unique shapes created by the crossing lines.  We did not cross any lines with our colors.  This gave us some fantastic results.  This project was a favorite of the students.

1st & 2nd Grade Project: Tree of Life - Scratch Art

The 1st and 2nd grade both learned about Gustav Klimt and how he loved color.  So using Gustav and his love of color as our inspiration, we first covered our papers in crayon.  We then painted our paper completely black with tempera paint.

Below is a sample to show students what happens when you cover your crayon with black paint.

Once their painting was completed and our papers were ready, we used chalk to draw our 'Trees of Life'.

We then used our scratching tools to remove the black paint from the inside of our trees and the swirls of our trees' limbs.  Some of our students paint was too sticky to remove so they had difficulty with project, it was hard to watch them do so well for all the steps and then not get a satisfactory result.  

Kindergarten Project: Hand birds

Students were asked to trace their hands both with their fingers together and fingers apart.  Once done with that we added circles, triangles, and curved lines to create different details on our birds.  Students then colored their birds in any color they wanted, because birds are many many colors.

When their birds were complete, they cut them out and pasted them onto the skies they had painted.

 

As an extra detail students were given markers and asked to add things you could find in the sky.