Art Blog January 2014
3rd grade Cityscapes K-4th grade Art Blog, January 2014 KINDERGARTEN: Winter Landscapes inspired by Grandma Moses Students were introduced to the life and works of the American Folk artist Grandma Moses. Students used different kinds of art tools, such as brayers, sponges and paint brushes to paint their winter landscapes. Following Grandma Moses’ style combined with basic sketching, drawing and coloring skills, students created their own interpretations of familiar and cherished family traditions that are celebrated during the winter months. 1 ST GRADE: Three-Dimensional Clouds: This art project was correlated with the first grade science curriculum “weather unit”. After reading the story “Little Cloud” by Eric Carle, first grade students created a variety of different shaped clouds (i.e. sheep clouds, little clouds, big clouds, air plain clouds, cat clouds, etc.) The clouds were crafted out of large pa...