Art Aprons

I love seeing all the art teachers who show their passion for art through making their own clothes or the art teacher t-shirt fridays. I know their students must love to see what wearable art they are going to come in with next.

My version of that it my art aprons! I love to paint and I wear aprons all the time. I also like the option I have with putting on one with one class and then switching them for another class in the same day.

I buy my aprons at hobby lobby usually. They are pretty inexpensive and they are blank canvas to paint what I feel like.

Getting more aprons is definitely on my to do list. :)

Colorwheel Fun

CogAT, conferences, and field days, oh my!
It has been one super busy the last couple of weeks. I have had a ton going on in the art room lately as well.

I started introducing color to kindergarten and first grade making color wheels but in two different ways.

Since it is now officially Fall (even though it is not feeling that way in Ga), Kindergarten used liquid watercolor resist to create a spiderweb color wheel. I showed them a video clip off of youtube  that went over the color wheel and the order of the colors and then they were off to make their own.
Next, I wanted to get them into some paper sculpture and also move into the difference between two dimensional versus three dimensional. So of course, their spiderwebs needed a spider! I wasn't really sure what to expect but they were all really successful and turned out so well. They were perfect to  put on display for October.

First Grade began with introducing one of my favorite books, Mouse Paint. I love this book and they all really like it too. After reading them the story, I went over how to mix the colors and gave each table a plate with the three primary colors on them. They had to use their "art math" to mix the other three colors to make up their color wheels. They folded their paper into six sections and had to paint each section one of the six colors. We let those dry and then they were passed out the next day to create mice out of the painted paper. I gave them each a 12x12 piece of white paper to glue their mice to in the correct order. They added their mice and the details. Next, we talked about neutral colors and I let them pick a neutral color to create the other character that was in the story, the cat. I had them fold a 9x12 paper in half to  help them space out the parts of the cat to ensure they left themselves enough room room. On the top half, they drew the cat's head. On the bottom half, they drew a tail and the four paws. They cut them out and glued them around the color wheel to complete the project. They turned out soooo cute! I loved seeing all the different cats and their facial expressions.