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Welcome to our annual Fine Arts Festival celebrating Youth Art Month, Fairy Tales and Fables.  Here are just a few photos of our fun filled night. Every child had at least 2 projects up most had 4-5 projects. The projects stay up for over a month.  Stay tuned for more photos!  Hallway outside my classroom.  Displays at the end of the hallway -These are everywhere! 125 were created.

2nd grade students created Jack and the Beanstalk with a giant.  They loved making their funny face giants! Who wouldn't love these crazy guys looking at them?  Production Day 1 After reading the classic story Jack and the Beanstalk, students created the beanstalk out of paper towels and painted leaves. Next, students added Jack, which was made out of painted paper and construction

Have you ever wondered what the path to grandma’s house would look like in  the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood? I read to the students Little Red Riding Hood written by Brothers Grimm with illustrations  done by Bernadette Watts.  The drawings in this book are so delicate I wanted my students to create their own version of a delicate field of flowers and trees. Production

Wow, I can not believe that I have 600 followers today. I remember seeing fun art blogs and hoping to one day figure out the whole blogging process. A couple of years later, and many new friends I am tickled pink that our Art Education on-line community has grown to be a fantastic source for art educators, educators, parents or anyone who loves to create art with children.  To all my

What’s a Viking without a Viking ship? After making our vikings we needed to add some sort of transportation to our Viking mural. I saw this photo of Viking Ships by Maureen. She had created them with her class a while back and posted on flickr.  Check out her blog. Her projects are really colorful and unique! I wanted to change her viking ships up a tad so I had the students in 4th grade use

I always like to have a clothing project relate to our thematic units. When I did Mexico, I did this.  While forth graders were studying Russian Fairy Tales I thought lets bring in  Russian Folk clothing from the past.  Again, we looked at Patricia Polacco's beautiful illustrations in her books. Exploration Before we began, we looked at patterns, ribbons, and symmetry of Russian

This is definitely going into the vaults as one of my favorite lessons from my  Fairy Tale and Fable Thematic Unit! I needed to have a project for a 3rd grade classroom. You know the classroom of wiggly-gigilly boys who will work for you but really need to be outside burning off some steam. Well, I created this lesson thinking they might just be able to pull it off. When I told them of

Here is a little sneak peak of Giants for our Jack and the Bean Stalk Projects. These Giants’ heads are hilarious. They have personalities that are as big as the Giant himself! Enjoy until the next time I post the rest of the project. 2nd graders are so fun. They never stop surprising me with fun outcomes!

Once upon a time, in Russia, an old man planted some turnip seeds. Each year he grew good turnips, but this year he was especially proud of one very big turnip. He left it in the ground longer than the others and watched with amazement and delight as it grew bigger and bigger. It grew so big that no one could remember ever having seen such a huge turnip before. At last it stopped growing,

Continuing with our fairy tales thematic unit, 4th graders have been studying Russian Fairy tales. We created cottage windows found in many illustrations in Russian Fairy Tales and Stories. One author who inspired our project was Patricia Polacco who illustrates beautiful Russian architecture in many of her books. I have done this project before several years ago (found here) but this

I just had to post these projects that my 6th graders created. I am so proud how beautiful these turned out. I know these students have painted with me previously but now that they are in middle school I sometimes feel that they just give up and forget all those suggestions I have given them over the years.  Well, not this group. They took off when the paints were placed on the tables. I