5th Grade Halloween Silhouettes and Kindergarten Scaredy Cats

Halloween has reared it's spooky head! The 5th graders made these spooky silhouettes. This is really a high success, quick project. Take a look at these Scaredy Cats. I can hardly stand how darn cute they are! I did this in small groups, three kids at a time. That worked really well. The thought of 35 5 year olds with black paint seemed to SCARY!! 

                                                                                 

 
 
 

1st Grade Calaveras

The 1st Graders worked really hard on these Calaveras. They are happy and dancey just like the students! Visit our Artsonia page to view all 54 of them.

3rd Grade Day of the Dead

Here are some examples of the 3rd Graders Day of the Dead Calaveras- please visit our Artsonia site to see the rest.

More Day of the Dead

These are the 2nd grade version of Calaveras masks for Day of the Dead. We talked about how to make them fancy, because people make things that they care about, fancy.

 

 

Day of the Dead Katrina Dolls

These came out so much better than I could have imagined! I had the fortunate opportunity ( some may say unfortunate ) to have a two hour class with my 5th graders. We watched some quick videos about Day of the Dead, talked about the significance of the holiday, and  Katrina, and why she is so fancy....how even if you are fancy, and have a lot of money- you can't escape death.
Here are the videos
Day of the Dead video 1
Day of the Dead video 2
Day of the Dead video 3

 

 

 

 

                                                                                               

6th Grade Zentangle Names

The 6th graders did such a terrific job on their zentangle names.

Visit their Artsonia page here

Surreal Rooms

My students totally rocked this project! I love how it turned out. We studied perspective, shading, surrealism... so much. I think my favorite part of this project was the creative titles that my students came up with. Check out their titles at our Artsonia website.Artsonia page here!