Poppies Collage for Remembrance Day

This is a new poppy project I tried this year wiht my Grade 4-6 students. In all honesty, it was too easy for them, but we needed a quick project we could do in one period (80 minutes) and this fit the bill.

The only part that needed to be completed the class before was the students making the textured grey background paper.

I altered this project slightly from the one I saw on the fellow Canadian website 'That Artist Woman".

See her post with all the steps HERE.

We used really watered down grey tempera paint mixed with silver metallic paint. 

Water it down to a runny cream consistency. 

Cover with plastic wrap, make lots of wrinkles and let dry a few hours. 

When you peel of the plastic wrap, you get a really cool textured pattern.

Using painted green paper, students cut out long, thin, wobbly stems as well as jagged leaves. 

Glue those down.

Using red tissue paper, students cut out three different sized circles and 

layered them together and glued them down. 

Cut out black paper and glue in the center.

You can see the bouquet of poppies that we looked at beforehand, to get a good sense of what poppies look like in real life.

Grade 4-6 results!

 

Leaves of Gratitude Fall Thanksgiving Bulletin Board Window Display

While Canada and the United States share many holidays – including Christmas and Labour Day – Canadian and American Thanksgivings are held almost two months apart. Ours was held on October 14th and in the U.S, it's on November 28th. Canada’s celebration has often been credited to it getting colder the further north you go – and therefore having an earlier harvest. The day is still all about gratitude and giving thanks in both countries (and a turkey dinner and pumpkin pie!)

 

I saw these table place cards at Dollarama and was inspired to create a window display involving all students and staff from our school. The office staff distributed them to all the homeroom teachers and they had students write on them something they were grateful for. Then, a colleague and I hung them on windows in a naturalistic swirling motion using scotch tape. 

It added a nice autumnal touch to our hallway and received many compliments!

 

Mummy Eyes Halloween Art Project

This was a really fun, fast and furious one day art project I did last week with my mixed Grade 4-6 art class. I saw the project HERE on a fellow Canadian teacher's website: https://www.mmemarissa.com/art-projects. She is a French Immersion elementary teacher from British Columbia who posts many art lessons.

She posts all the steps to the mummy eyes project and also includes a free eyes template. 

I ordered these new neon oil pastels (from Amazon) for the project. Usually the Mont Marte brand can be very hit it miss, in my experience, but we all really loved these- super smooth and easy to blend. You can also find this brand often at Winners/Homesense where it is cheaper than Amazon (I found out afterward, lol)

I printed out the eye template but gave students the choice to draw their own eyes, 

Only one student did this. 

Students learned about analogous colours and chose 2-3 colours to colour their eyes with. 

Cut them out and glue to the middle of a horizontal sheet of black construction paper.

Each student took 1 or 2 8.5 x 14" whit copy paper (legal size).

They carefully tore them into strips horizontally (long ways).

Then they chose light grey or a beige chalk pastel and drew some lines on the paper strips and blended them out with their finger. This made them looks like old strips of cloth.

Then they started layer the paper strips over the eyes. 

My students really enjoyed this project!  It was a rush job, but they all 

managed to complete them in one period (80 minutes).