Fall scarecrows - grades 2/3

It feels odd to be writing about a grade 2/3 project now that I'm at an intermediate school, but actually, this is a project a friend of mine did with a grade 2/3 class she supply taught for. I thought it was so great that I had to share!

Here's what she told me about the process:

"We used wax crayons with a watercolor wash on top for the sky. It was a grade 2/3 class, and the period was 80 minutes long. It could be a two day project as well. We did a group draw for the scarecrow. I didn't have enough permanent markers, otherwise I would have gotten them to outline their scarecrows before coloring with crayons. Instead, the black outline is crayon."

Aren't they absolutely adorable? Seeing this made me feel a little pang of sadness that I no longer teach elementary art. I really had fun with projects like this!

Thanks to Jules for sharing this!

Name art - grade 4/5

I am getting rid of my old iPhone so I was emptying out the pictures, and found a couple of projects that I never posted. This is a lesson that I actually did the first week of school. It was great since I didn’t really know the kids all that well. It would be PERFECT for supply teachers.

Instructions:

1)      Using sharpie, write your name in cursive about 10 times on a piece of white paper. Make sure that you are writing in all different directions, and that your name intersects with itself (no floating names!) Names should be in all different sizes

2)      When you are happy with how it looks, select 3 or 4 markers, and begin filling in the sections that you have made. Work all over the page, so that when the work period is up, all work will appear “finished”, even if all sections have not been completed.

That’s really it! Definitely good for a 40min-1 hour block. I did this with grade 4/5, but I think anyone from grade 3-6 would do well.