January 2015 Art Blog
KINDERGARTEN Fabric Collage Collage is a form of art which originated from France in the early 20th century, which means literally “gluing”. The word describes the composition of different materials affixed to a backing. In this project, the students made their selections of fabrics of varying textures, designs and color and then arranged them to cover the entire picture plane. Though simple, planning and making their collages took the children out of their usual ‘box’ - and into a fun process of composition and designing with materials other than their everyday paint and crayons! 1st 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 c...