December Holiday Projects: A treat, an Art and an Advent Calendar - calm and focused -

Hanukkah Lights: Stories of the Season

Why is it that the week before break can be hectic or a calm, focused classroom. All around the art room can be chaos but walk in the art room doors and students are ready to create. Five days before break the art classes do an advent calendar with a treat and an art project each day. Weaving, jewelry making, clay ornaments (made & glazed), scratch art cards and gingerbread people from a sketch they draw. Projects like Gods eyes, and snowflakes can be continued over vacation or sketchbooks taken home to draw in. These projects can be given as hand made presents or kept or put on trees.

                                               5 days before vacation

clay ornaments

licorice pinterest board

 clay ornament video

 

 

 

 

 

4 days before vacation

wooden  jewelery

Jolly rancher pinterest board 

 Wooden Spool pinterest board
by students wooden spools

           

 

          

  

 

 

                     

3 days before vacation

Gods eyes weaving
Smarties Pinterest Board

 

The Weaving Series: God's Eye (Ojo de Dios)

2 days before vacation

scratch art

candy cane pinterest board

1 day before vacation

Gingerbread people

gingerbread houses pinterest board

December Holiday Project: It's a Snow Day-Let it Snow-Snowflake Cut-day

Pinterest Snowflake Board

Decorate the halls with snow flakes. Glittery Snow Flakes.
Today we will make white paper 6 pointed snow-snowflakes for the music concert next week. Let it Snow (this is California and we get rain if we are lucky) We will listen to "Let it Snow" and watch the tutorial on how to make 6 pointed snowflakes. Fold your paper as shown and draw your design before you cut it out.See how wispy, thin your star can be. Don't forget to put your name on it and photograph on a dark piece of paper.

Zentangle Animal Coloring Book

Make an animal black and white zentangle coloring page sheet.

• Pick an animal and draw the outline only.
• Inside the animal include drawings about where it lives, it's habitat, food it eats, family life, friends, home and any other interesting facts you can draw.
• Connect what you draw with zentangle lines (lines tangled) Remember you are creating a coloring page.
• Go over your lines with black marker only.
• Upload to Artsonia for coloring book page.

 

links

Earth Art International zentangle animals Pinterest Boards   
cool and warm colors   
spirit animals and animal totems  
Oaxaca Paper Mache animals on Pinterest  
 zentangle lessons 

definitions:

zentangle - lines tangled  
habitat -  the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

- Henry Matisse 1869 –1954 - Paper Cut Outs -

Matisse on Pinterest

Pick a one word theme and draw your ideas on your sketchbook cover.

Cut out color paper and glue on. Color the entire page with blocks of large colors.

Layers of paper and no brown of the sketchbook showing.

Last step add line drawings with Sharpie until it looks finished to you. 

Coat with "Mod Podge varnish"  to protect.

* Upload to Artsonia.

Thanksgiving projects:"Save Me with your Imagination!!!" said the turkey to his Artist Friend.

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HeLP ME!! said the turkey!!

Your pet turkey is going to be eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. Help your pet!! Draw a disguise and draw a hiding place for your turkey. What's your plan? Can you draw it?

When you upload your picture to Artsonia explain your plan to save your turkey. Most imaginative in each class gets a chocolate vegetarian turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.

..........ROCK..........PAPER..........SCISSORS.........

PAPER

ROCK

pinterest rock art board

SCISSORS

EDIBLE ART

Graduation Mural

The last projects for 8th graders is a group mural about graduating from middle school. This will be displayed for graduation and the award ceremony.

2017 8th grade class mural is augmented reality with Aurasma. Zoom in on each face with the app and the books and the student that created the person or background will talk to you about the painting and more. 

2019

2017 augmented reality with Aurasma

2015

2014

2018