SPRING ART!

Here are our suncatcher flowers, which the children had lots of fun coloring (maybe it was because they got to use permanent markers :)

Inspired by our upcoming field trip to the DBG, one student free-handed this in the morning so she could give it to the people there. 

 See our beautiful weaving from last week?  Overall I was pretty impressed.  The hardest part was starting correctly.  We mounted them and then used lots of different things - spools, sponges, pencils, glue lids, Perfection pieces - to stamp a border around (some were patterns, others just designs)

 This child decided to stamp the black spaces on her weaving mat also.

 Afterward, some children enjoyed stamping their own designs.

 Here is a more sophisticated circular pattern:

 While some children were doing the printmaking above, others were outside planting seeds.  Later in the day we pulled out the pastels and watercolor paints (it was a messy day) to paint water lilies like the famous artist, Claude Monet, did.  Since Monet was an impressionist we learned that his pictures did not always look exactly like what he was painting.  This gave us the freedom to accept our drawings, even when they did not turn out exactly as we envisioned.  I was really impressed with how they turned out.  Thanks to Kathy at Art Projects for Kids for the idea!