Pumpkin Patch Art, 1st Grade

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My first graders are so much fun, and so much work :-) They have surprised me so much with these, they aren't even done, and they're BEAUTIFUL. They learned to "shade" a little, and mix their colors. If you look closely they have mixed some yellow into their orange pumpkins, to make them look further in the distance. Very, very cool so far. The finishing touches will add leaf rubbings. Fall fun, eh?

Spiders on Webs, 1st Grade

We started with a 9x12 black piece of paper and a white crayon. I did my best to teach the concept of drawing a web (which is slightly harder then I thought it would be)...

Then, I let them have-at the scrap bin, and taught them how to create some spiders. They then added them to their little webs.

This was again, another fun one-day take home project for the Halloween season.

Positive/Negative Pumpkins, 2nd Grade

Gotta love Art Projects for Kids, to whom I credit this awesome idea. It was a great one-day take home project for Halloween and if we did it really slow, and together...they kids did a really great job with it.

Scary Houses (a start), 2nd Grade

I'm not at all into witches, goblins, monsters, blood, gore or ghosts....but I do think that "scary" houses are cool at Halloween time. I don't call them haunted, because, well, I don't believe in ghosts. But, scary...scary is fine at this time of year. It's also a good opportunity to teach them about houses, and how to draw certain things (windows, doors, etc). They had a fun time drawing crooked, broken, creeky, and old scary houses.


Another example, of where I yet again...let the finished results slip past my doorway without snagging a picture or two.