Artistic Freedom

My kindergardeners ended the school year with these pointillist flowers. The students started with a circle in the middle of the paper or in a corner. After they drew the circle they used pointed oval tracers to create the overlapping pedals. They had to pick two colors and do one color dots in the center circle. The other color was used to make dots in the pedals. After the dots were made with crayon we used water color to fill in the spaces. The end result is as shown above. Great job Kindergarden! 

Each Kindergartener looked at three flower pictures to start the class. They picked two of the three to draw. As a whole class, we drew each flower one at a time. If a student didn't pick the flower I was drawing at the time, they waited patiently for me to get to their next flower. The students did an awesome job of listening to the instructions and we ended up with some awesome painting. After the drawing, the students painted the sky with watercolor, and the flowers with tempera paint. In their regular ed. classroom, the students were learning about roots, so I decided to show an above ground and below ground view.  The roots are colored with crayons, and the dirt painted with brown watercolor. I love how different they all are!

My first graders learned about the horizon line on a landscape. They started out by painting one piece of paper green and another piece of paper blue.  The students tore both pieces of paper into little pieces. They glued each piece onto a long piece of paper with a line drawn horizontally across the middle. Blue (sky) goes above the line and Green (ground) goes below the line. After all pieces were glued to the paper we drew flowers onto some colored paper and tore the flower pieces out. TORN FLOWERS... hard but every student learned a lot from it and did an amazing job.