Kindergarten CLAY Dinosaur Fossils

Kindergarten Stamped Hearts

Kindergarten learned the "Heart" of symmetry and cut out their own hearts!  Yes, yes, they did!  I introduced Jim Dim's love of hearts, and his artwork and my students stamped until their hearts were content!

Kindergarten Woven Rainbow Fish

Kindergarten KUFI hats

Kindergarten African Mud Cloth Prints

Kindergarten students created these amazing African Mud Cloths

by printing and stamping with found objects on neutral colored paper!

Kindergarten Primary Pizzas up CLOSE

Waiting to DRY

Kindergarten "DREAMCATCHERS" waiting to dry on the drying rack.

Happy Valentines Day!

Kindergartners created these FABULOUS collage hearts inspired by artist, Jim Dine. Each student drew 6 hearts and got to use various art materials: watercolor pencils, oil pastels, tempera paint, glitter crayons, metallic crayons, tissue paper and markers to make each heart unique. The borders around their collage were their found object printing paper scraps from their previous lesson, African mud cloths!

Kindergartners just got finished creating African style mudcloths using neutral colors! The patterns were made by stamping with various found objects like: forks, tops, beads, sponges, marker tops, clothespins and so much more. After stamping, students cut their printed papers and glued on top of the other strips. Students wove their strips together to create a more interesting pattern! I hung them all together as a class to create a even larger piece of artwork for our school to view!

Kindergarten Snowflakes

Kindergarteners have been learning about Wilson Bentley, a photographer and scientist from Vermont. He was the first person to photograph snowflakes using a very special camera with a microscope. Wilson Bentley took photographs that even today revel two important truths about snowflakes: first that no two are alike , and second, that each one is startling beautiful.

Kindergarteners created four snowflakes each using white oil pastels for the lines and black paper for the background. We were aiming for the same black/white photographic look when Wilson Bentley was photographing his snowflakes! Kindergarteners were excited to learn about different kinds of cameras, who a photographer was, symmetry and neutral colors!

Let it SNOW!

Kindergarten Clay Jewelry

Kindergarten just completed their clay bead and medallion necklaces! The kindergartners learned all about clay, texture and pattern! They were so excited to wear their necklaces during the school day and show everyone!

Kindergartners have been creating pizzas using PRIMARY COLORS!

mMMmmmmm, good!

Take a Walk with a LINE!

Kindergartners have been learning about lines! Lines are everywhere! There many kinds of lines, wavy, straight, broken, dotted, blocked, zig zag, vertical, horizontal, scalloped and sprial. See if you can find all these lines in your everyday world.

Kindergartners were inspired to create African Kufi Hats after reading The Hatseller and the Monkeys, a West African folktale retold and written by Baba Wague Diakite. The book is about a hat peddler, whose colorful hats are ransacked by monkeys while taking a nap. The hat peddler has to do many things to get his hats back from the monkeys and learns an important lesson while doing so! My students loved this book, and believed that there were monkeys on our school roof waiting to get their colorful Kufi hats!

Kindergarten just finished learning about Louise Nevelson!

They created artwork using all found materials; paper tubes, wood, egg cartons and cardboard! Each class voted on a class color to paint all their inspired works of art!

Kindergarten has been learning about lines. There are many different kinds of lines, zig zag, straight, wavy, curvy, blocked, broken, dotted and scalloped . Make sure to ask your kindergartener about ALL the lines they have drawn and painted!