Bacich Elementary Art Blog

Transitional Kindergarten: Snowflake prints TK students experimented creating snowflakes using a tissue paper bleeding technique. Students used cool colored tissue paper, torn or cut into thin strips. Students layered their tissue paper strips in a crisscross star design and used a brush with water to paint over their snowflakes. By washing over the tissue paper it sticks down and creates beautiful color bleeds and washes onto the background paper.  To create an additional, layered effect, students used scratch foam to create a printing plate (stamp) of a snow flake. Students used brayers to roll blue printing ink onto their printing plates and printed their snowflakes onto their previously designed backgrounds.  Kindergarten: Bird House Prints  Kindergarten students were inspired by the thousands of bird houses Bill Larkin also know as "Crazy Bill" has built and is still continuing to build. He paints ...

TK: Winter Landscape with Bluebird With this winter landscape art project Transitional Kindergarten students explored texture painting for the bark and branches of birch trees. Students practiced scissor cutting, as well as gluing skills. Students created the blue bird out of one circle, cut in half, four and eight parts.  Using fine typed markers, students added details to their personalized birds.  The Bluebirds are sometimes confused with other blue birds, but they can be distinguished without difficulty. The western bluebird has a blue (male) or gray (female) throat, the eastern bluebird has an orange throat, and the mountain bluebird lacks orange color anywhere on its body. It has a stocky build, and a thin straight beak with a fairly short tail. Its posture consists of perching upright on wire fences and high branches. The western bluebird pounces on the ground when looking for food, such as worms and berries. It also flies ...