Frosty Snowflakes with Winter Quotes

This was a two day project that I managed to squeeze into the last week of school before Christmas vacation. I originally saw a version of this project somewhere online, but I can't remember where. If it's your lesson- please leave a comment so I can credit you!

The first class, students created a watercolour background using liquid watercolours and salt. This creates a frosty pattern effect. 

Next class, students cut out a snowflake (this gets harder and harder each year with students I find). They glued this onto their background along with a winter themed quite they chose.

I mounted them onto larger blue paper and they created designs 

in the border using a paint pen. 

Grade 4/5 results!

 

Creative 3D Christmas Tree art project

This was a 'extra time' project for any early finishers in my high school class during December. 

My former colleague is a master weaver and a wonderfully creative person! (The Wandering Weaver) 

She donated her sturdy cardboard weaving/yarn cones to me and I figured at some point they'd make a cool evergreen project or ice cream cone paper mache project, lol.

Students were challenged to think outside the box, use any material in the art studio and create their own tree. All three went with green, haha. 

I love how they all came out!!

 

Oil Pastel Sgraffito Ornaments

This is a colourful project my Grade 4/5 class just finished up last week. 

I was inspired by THIS VIDEO by Mari from Finland. She is SO SO talented and her Finnish accent is so relaxing to listen to!

I printed out a sheet of various shaped ornaments. Students learned about the sgraffito technique (an art technique where you scratch through a top layer of colored coating  to reveal a different colored layer underneath). They coloured each ornament with a light coloured oil pastel first. Then they layered on a darker colour. Using a wooden skewer, they scratched out different patterns.

They created a background on black paper- they did either ribbons with bows or evergreen boughs. Most went with evergreen boughs! Cut out the ornaments and glue stick them onto the black paper.