Ornament Collages

Part of being an artist is practicing the skills needed to create a variety of art.  Third and fourth graders exercised their cutting skills by creating a paper collage that was turned into an ornament.  The project started by learning how to make a circle using a compass.  Students then chose a variety of cut paper lines (some thin, some thick) to make a collage on their circle.  Students were asked to use at least 10 lines in their collage and five had to be changed in some way by cutting.  After the glue dried, we got out our new metallic craypas (oil pastel) to add glitz and glamor to our collages.  Aren't they gorgeous???

Snowflakes falling...

Where is the snow??  It's almost Christmas!  Kindergarten used white paint and sponge brushes to create snow on their collage.  The collage was made by cutting squares diagonally to create triangles for trees and rooftops.  Scraps were used to add chimneys, doors and windows.

Walk this Way-Warm/Cool Collages

Fifth graders learned to differentiate warm colors from cool colors.  To see the impact of warm colors vs. cool colors the students drew one image and copied it to another paper.  One drawing was colored with warm colors, the other cool colors.  When both drawings were completed, we sliced them into 1 inch strips.  Students then folded a 18X6 oak tag paper into an accordion fold.  The pieces of the drawing were glued down in a pattern: warm, cool, warm, cool onto the paper accordion.  Our finished artwork will become an optical illusion.  Walking towards the artwork you will see one image and walking back by you will see a different one.  Here are some pictures of the work in progress.  We are almost finished!