Kindergaraten Printmaking Cities

Students learned about warm and cold colors by "painting" water onto tissue paper to create the background.  Then they used a small piece of cardboard dipped in black paint to print skyscrapers!

During the next class,  they printed the windows.  

Kindergarten- Warm and Cold City Scapes

Kinder is creating their background for a printmaking city scape.  So... they chose either warm or cold colors for their background.  They paint water on top of tissue paper squares that bleed onto the paper giving it a watercolor look.  They love doing it but it does stain the fingers.  Sometimes art is messy!

This is one of my fifth grade helpers, helping Kinder kids with the drying rack.  I couldn't survive without them!

Here again is one of my fifth grade helpers taking the dried tissue paper off of the Kinder backgrounds.  We are saving the used tissue paper to use as confetti.  More to follow....

Kinder Self Portraits!

Before each Kindergarten student drew and colored their own self portrait, we looked at one of the many self portraits of Vincent Van Gogh.  We discussed facial features and used geometric shapes to draw the body.  I love these self portraits!

These are some of the eight 5th grade helpers that give up their recess to come and help me with Kindergarten.  They helped me cut out all 90 Kindergarten self portraits.  I could not survive with out their help!  Thank 5th grade!

Kindergarten Painting

Kindergarten learns to paint!  The kids all tell me they already know how to paint but they are learning how to paint with 20 other children, how to carry their painting to the drying rack, wash their hands, and clean up the mess all in 45 minutes!  The fist paintings we made were about mixing primary colors to make secondary colors.  In the picutres below the studens were allowed to use all of the paints and paint any thing they wanted (free paint day)!

                                         

  

Kinder kids learn to clean up too!