This was another multifaceted project that ended up with an astoundingly high success rate. I was beginning to doubt the lesson somewhere in the middle, but we forged ahead. I am beaming with pride at the growth I saw in my first graders! They looked at still life paintings by famous artists and with a huge variety of flower drawings for inspiration, the students practiced drawing different kinds of flowers. I modeled step by step drawing for several flowers so they would get the idea of really focusing on line and shape. And did I say draw big? Big, big, big...no tiny flowers here. Little ones tend to draw little:) During the practice, students worked on making vases. They covered a paper square with bleeding tissue and water. No pencil allowed on our project. We learned to turn mistakes into something good. Students drew their flowers with marker, added a table cloth using texture plates and crayons, and learned to carefully color their flowers with marker. Students folded their vase paper in half and drew a whatever type of line they wanted from top to bottom. They cut along the line, opened their paper and had beautiful symmetrical vases. They also ran their vase through a paper crimper. Students added stems and leaves from their flowers to their vases and the results were gorgeous!
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Mrs. Kendell
I was a graphic designer for many years, and then decided to make the leap into art education. I taught elementary art for 8 years. Archives
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