Mummy Eyes 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. 

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). 

 

Spectacular Autumn Supermoon Landscape

This is a beautiful Fall lesson incorporating various media. Students learned all about supermoons and we had a supermoon the day we were finishing these last week!

I found the lesson HERE on the "Kids and Glitter" website. 

She shows all the steps so it was very helpful!

I taught this to my mixed class of Grade 4,5,6 students. 

It was the perfect level of challenge for all of them.

Start with basket style coffee filters (from Dollarama).

Kids crumple them up then gently flatten them. Paint them in a mottled technique, mixing colours, using watercolours. Let dry. Doesn't take too long. 

On 12x18" construction paper, lay down a bunch of chalk pastels in 

whatever 'twilight' colour they want. Blend it all out gently using a tissue. 

Then, using the same size green and black construction paper, slowly tear those into landscape hills. 

Do the same with black construction paper but tear it a bit shorter than the green.

Glue down the green first.

Students starting deciding where they wanted their supermoon.

Glue down the black layer on top pf the green layer. Glue down the supermoon- it's trickier to glue because it's so thin and textured and a bit fragile. We used glue sticks for this step.

Then draw on some tree trunks and branches in pencil.

We painted our trees using black acrylic paint and thin brushes for the branches. 

Using a Q-tip and tempera paint, students dabbed on fall coloured leaves. 

I gave them the choice of yellow/orange or burgundy/purple. 

95% chose burgundy/purple!

Some early finished artworks:

 

Russian Matryoshka Doll Drawings

This was a lesson I left for my substitute teacher when I was out sick. It's the perfect sub lesson as it only uses markers, but also allows for a lot of creativity and engagement from students.

See my previous post about this lesson HERE. It has all the steps.

Find the doll template HERE.

Some finished work by Grade 4-6:

 

Scratch Art

This was an open project I gave to my Grade 10-12 class. They have done scratch art before so I didn't need to review much, other than telling them lots of details, pattern and line work. Fur and feathers work very well with scratchboard techniques.

They sketched a drawing first on regular copy paper. Then they tape it onto their chosen scratchboard and trace over the lines firmly with a ball point pen. This transfers a faint grey line onto the scratchboard. 

The gold ones were very difficult to photograph as they are metallic and highly reflective! Hence why I had to photograph these n an angle.