Adapive Art- Roller Coasters

Woooo-whooooo! We created roller coasters using pipe cleaners, beads, and foam board. We read the book "Hooray for You" to go along with this project.

4th Grade- Radial Designs

These radial designs were inspired by Hex Symbols.

Students create a "pie piece" and traced it 6 times in a circle or radial shape to create their hex symbol. Then then colored each piece to create a symmetrical design.

1st Grade Lady Bugs and Habitats

I found some unused chicken nugget boxes from our cafeteria, so the best thing to do with them is to create boxes for clay lady bugs! This was a 3 day project

Day 1- Create the lady bug out of clay. The body is made from a pinch pot. We decorated the pinch pot upside-down using wooden sticks. We were sure to poke 3 holes on each bottom side of lady bug to add pipe-cleaner legs later. We also put to holes in the head for antennas.

Day 2- Decorated our chicken nugget boxes. We covered all the sides of the boxes in paper and decorated them. We put "grass" on the inside bottom of our box. We then glued a piece of paper to the inside of our lid stating the lady bugs name, birthday, favorite food, and past time. Last we hole punched the lid and added a pipe cleaner to create a handle.

Day 3- We painted our lady bugs and added legs and antennas with pipe cleaners.

3rd Grade- Art inpsired by music

We discussed how the art and music of a particular culture relate to each other. We then listened to 5 songs found in our pop culture. While listening to the 30 second clip of each song, students drew lines of how they they thing the music sounded.

We then picked our 3 favorite  lines  to start the background of our project. Students continued to trace the lines with marker until the entire 9 x 12 inch paper was full of color. This part took about 2 class periods.

On the third class period, students create a piano key board and music notes and cut them out and glued them to their line paper.

The coolest thing about this project, is I was able to use Audioboo to record the songs and post a QR code of them on our bulletin board for viewers to listen to the songs we heard.

Adaptive Art and the Bean Stalk

I just loved how these turned out.

We read Jack and the Giant Bean Stalk and then created pictures of us climbing up a bean stalk. While the students were working, I took pictures of them acting like they were climbing up  the wall. Some of the poses are in perfect line with the leaves on their bean stalks.

1st Grade- Parrots

My classroom was being painted to so I wanted an easy project for us to do in the media center. These parrots worked great and the students loved them.

Step-by-step, we drew the parrot body together. Students then looked at images of Macaws and colored their parrots based on their observations. We then water colored the background.

Adaptive Art- Carrots

This quick and easy project could go along with any bunny story.

This project allowed students to practice counting and writing numbers.

We had time at the end of class to make these bunnies as well.