Water colors and masking tape

 

 

Normally we would of done a ton of projects for Easter but we moved.  With Moving everything has been in boxes.  Yesterday I had things in working in order so we got our art on. K was excited to have a little bit of school to do. 

 

I gave K masking tape and water colors and let him decorate his paper egg.  He made a cross on his egg; when I asked him why he said it reminds him of Jesus Christ.  Sure put a tear in this moms eyes.  Even though we decorate with bunnies and eggs he's starting to understand it's about Jesus and what he did for us.

 

Have a great Holiday weekend

Halloween Art Gallery

See all the fun art projects that we did this week

 

 

A spooky forest

leaf art.

 

Paper bag pumpkins

Bats

practicing cutting and working with pastels

We read the book Pumpkin heads and than made some pumpkin face masks

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Art ~ A different way to weave paper

A few weeks ago we did some standard weaving with paper which caused me to do some thinking.  Today I cut some paper strips and showed K how he could weave paper.  He thought it was neat and wanted to learn how to do it.  He picked his paper and we started weaving.

 

 

Great for working on fine motor skills

Here is K's finished paper weaving strip.  I saw his creative wheels turning.  Wasn't long before he was hauling out some construction paper, googly eyes, stars and grabbing his scissors and glue.

Meet googly eyes robot and now he wants to make a video with him.

Art Lesson Idea ~ The color wheel

This week we pulled out the paint and started to learn about the color wheel.  We started with a talk about our 3 primary colors.  K filled his cups and while doing this he was listing things of that color.  Such as a red apple,fire truck.the sun,banana, the sky and so on.  I than had already prepped a blank coloring wheel, that he would fill in with paint.

 

Now that the Primary colors where done we talked about mixing colors.  Before actually mixing the colors we did some guessing of what colors we were about to make.  We than started the mixing.   I lead him on this one but he got to add the amounts of each color and do the mixing.  As he did this we again listed things that share the same color. Pumpkins,grapes and palm trees (LOL only my kid) were his main answers.  Of course we painted our intermediate colors onto the color wheel as well.

 

for the middle I just let him mix whatever combo he wanted to so nothing fancy here other than he had a blast mixing the colors.  I could just see the wheels turning as he kept trying to get a different color by mixing yellow into the orange :o)

The finished color wheel to help us the rest of the year of art class

Homeschool Art class (1st day)

Welcome back Kiddos!

 

Our homeschool P.E. & ART classes has resumed for the year.  This is the 5-8 yr old group in art class.  They were making name tags

 

K made his to look like the sun

Working on Weaving

While watching the Olympics K wanted to make his own flag. So I had the great Idea why not have him weave a flag together with his own pattern.   He picked the colors of Romania and made a cool looking flag for K's made up country.  He said next year he'll march in the Olympics.  I didn't have the heart to remind him that the Olympics are every 4 yrs (2 if he's thinking winter :o))

 

 

Ooey Gooey art......8/3/12

Ooey Gooey art with the creative Kristi

we had the honor to join in this week with a fun art project with some other moms in our local homeschool group.  K had a blast making his own fish tank.  I taped it to the window and K had fun pressing on the GOO and finding all his fish.  The colors are fun as well with the light shining through it :o)

 

Supplies needed for your own Fish bowls

Ziploc baggies

Clear gel

food coloring

glitter

Fish foamies

Fish stickers

Water color paint

Fish bowl shape made on card stock.  each child needs 2 for each side of the baggy

 

Make sure you tape the top so that the bag doesn't open when the kiddos are playing with this fish bowl

 

 

 

The Finished Fish bowl

 

 

 

 

 

A little play time at the end of art class

The boys where trying to run up the wall

Our Art Corner

Welcome to our Art area... Take a peek and let me know what you think.

Left out is the huge rolls of paper for painting..and the extra paper for the drawing paper stand that sits on the table (IKEA)

Some of our Extras...Most stored out of sight and reach of son due to most being big jugs of paint and glitters.

Manila and construction paper. I use a letter holder to keep the papers neatly put and easy to find when needed.

Found these at Target about 2 years ago which I use on our table near the 4th of July. For the rest of the year they hold markers and such.

Beads and Glue lots of glue that is...Glue is our BF when your in Kindergarten.

our messy bucket of foam art stuff on 1 side and felt and a couple art project kits on the other side.

Everything with paint is in this bin. Aprons, paint shirt, lots of brushes, foam shapes etc..oh and the list of paints Oh my should I tell you them all. OK tempera's, water color, stain (plastic things you hang on the window) puffy paint, glitter paint, poster paint..oh and I think there are a couple more but that is the main paint in there.

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