When is the warm weather coming???
Maybe by making these cute lil' chicks will help!!!

My kindergarten kids LOVE cutting, ripping and gluing so much! They don't even know that all that fun is helping their hand/eye coordination and their small motor skills...he he he.

For the bodies on these chicks I had the kids trace their foot, with their shoe on. We talked about the features that should be on their chicks, including legs and feet.
Just look at the legs on that one! Now those are some drumsticks!!!

I think the feathers on top of their cute little heads add the perfect touch.
Enjoy!!

I had a bunch of yellow plates that I was going to use for another project, but never got around to it, so I came up with this texture project for second grade. Using twine, the students glued it to the middle of the plate for the seeds. To give a neat look with the twine, they spiraled it - and used A LOT of glue to keep it in place!!! Next they cut the edges of the plate to make petals and lastly added a stem with some leaves using tag board.

With all the crud going around the school, I thought it would be fun to have the kindergarten students show us what they thought germs look like! Check these out!!!


And one more...

These cute pumpkins make me smile and giggle every time I walk by them in the hallway. How can you not love these!? The kids mixed red and yellow to make an orange dot on their papers. Those papers were set to dry until the next art class.

During the second art class, the students needed to cut out a mouth, teeth and eyes. I didn't tell them what they were for or how big they needed to be. Afterwards, the big reveal came when I showed them the examples and they began cutting out their pumpkin from their orange dot. They glued everything together, glued the pumpkin to a blue paper, added some blades of grass, and wha-la!
Each one of these pumpkins are so unique and special in their own way - sort of like their creator! Enjoy!
I found this fun project on Flickr. Click here to see more.

What are you going to do with all those paper and fabric scraps that get accumulated over the school year? COLLAGE!! The kindergarten kids were so creative and loved cutting up the fabric. The only rule was that they had to make themselves. Some of the kids made the body first, then added the clothes while others dug in right away without making the body. Either way, the project was successful, enjoyable, and made for really no mistakes.

First grade students created these adorable peacocks! Learning about Eric Carle was so fascinating for them; they really enjoyed watching his video Picture Writer.
Using watercolor paints and looking at the color wheel we talk about the warm and cool colors, the students painted one paper with the warm colors and one paper with the cool colors. Next, they worked on the peacock body adding the eyes, beak and legs. I gave them some ideas on the shape of feathers and they were to cut out feathers with the cool colors and add warm colors for decorations. The feathers were glued behind the body and lastly, we glued an actual feather on top of the peacocks head.