1st Grade- Texture leaves

This is a different approach on the texture leaf rubbings. We discussed texture and how texture is how something feels and how something looks like it feels. Together we drew a leaf in pencil and traced over it with sharpie. We then colored our leaves in using crayons. Next is he surprising part, it freaks out the kids a little. We crumble up our paper. We then smooth it out and crumble it up again and smooth it out. We then use a blue/glitter wash all over our paper. The wash soaks in on the folds making them more noticeable. 

1st Grade- Overlapping

1st grade learned about overlapping by creating snakes that are overlapping a tree. We incorporated texture into this project for the tree trunk. 

1st Grade- House for Hermit Crab

1st graders read House for Hermit Crab and created collages based on the book. We used texture, paper tearing, drawing, cutting, and coloring. Students included elements from the book as well as there own details.

1st Grade Batik Leaf

We discussed how you can make your own paper from pulp and that when you do this there is usually a lot of texture. Now sadly we didn't make our own paper for this project. We took computer paper and drew a leaf in the middle using pencil. We then went over our lines with sharpie. Next we colored in our leafs with crayon. Now for the fun part. We took our paper and crumbled it up, opened it up, and crumbled it up again. Students thought I was crazy when I gave them theses directions. Last we smoothes out the paper as much as possible and painted it with a blue sparkly wash. 

2nd Grade Texture Leaves and Pendants

2nd graders focused on texture when creating these leaf plates and pendants. We pressed a leaf onto a slab of clay and carefully cut around it to make the plate. We then used he bottom of our shoes to make the pendants. After the clay was fired, students painted using watercolors.

1st Grade- Sky Tree

We read the book Sky Tree and then creted our own sky trees. We first drew the tree in pencil and colored it in with crayon. Then we did texture rubbings of leaves. Lastly, we watercolored our picture. 

1st Grade- Abstract Texture Portraits

Students thought these portraits were hilarious and these only took one class to finish but we had to work fast.

Students folded a large piece of white paper into fours. In each sections, we used a different color and texture plate. Therefore, we ended with piece of paper full of texture rubbings. Next, we chose one section and drew and cut out a head shape. We discussed how the head shape could be any shape since this is abstract. Students then glued it onto their black paper. We proceeded to do these steps  for the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, body.I kept reminding them to glue their pieces and they cut them out so they wouldn't lose anything.
 Once most of the class looked like they had gotten a good start on their abstract portrait, I passed out crayons and markers. Students used these to add for details to their portraits and to outline some facial features to make them more obvious.