Droopy poppies for Remembrance Day - grade 4/5

I loooooove these droopy poppies that the grade 4/5 class worked on. They were a project for the kids who had finished their previous work, so unfortunately, not everyone had the chance to do them.

These were surprisingly simple, and only took about 15 minutes.

Basically, student drew the poppies (following a lesson on the board) in pencil, and then traced them out in Sharpie. They then used red liquid watercolor (LOVE this) to paint in the flowers, and regular black watercolor to add detail.

These look SO nice up in the gym!

Pink peace doves for Remembrance Day

This week, I did peace doves with the grade 2 and 3 classes. They were a really nice, easy activity, but still produced great results.

Students were given a piece of cardstock with a faint, dove outline. A note - cardstock works much better than normal paper for this one, because some kids can be very "paint heavy".

Students started off by red and white paint in a variety of pallets, to give them a gradient of light pink to dark red. They then used Q-tips to dot all over the dove, trying to leave as little white as possible.

The next day, they cut out the dove along the lines.

Next, it was glued to a piece of black cardstock,

and hung up in the gym! I think they look lovely, and they were so simple for the kids!

This took about an hour - keeping in mind that they need to be dried overnight before they can be cut.

Quick post - Grade 5/6 poppies

I did these poppies with a few of my grade 5/6 students who were finished the other art projects we had been working on.

We used some old scrapbooking paper that I had in my craft room at home, some tissue paper, and glitter glue. They turned out pretty cute! We will hang them up in the gym for the Remembrance Day assembly.