Kindergarten Update

It's been a bust start to the year in Kindergarten art!  Kindergarteners have finished their letter lines paintings, Knuffle Bunny art, and are now working on art with primary and secondary colors.

See some completed letter line paintings below and read last year's post for more info on our process.

For their Knuffle Bunny art, students read the first two books in Mo Willems' acclaimed series.  Students thought about what toys are special to them and drew self-portraits with the toys.  Some students chose to add their drawings to real photographs, just like Mo Willems.  Check out the display in the kindergarten hallway!

Letter Lines

Kindergarteners started out the year by creating art with lines, an element of art!

We read a book about lines.  

We made lines with our bodies.

One student had the idea to make a long line with all of our bodies!

We made lines with loose parts.

We found lines in the room and in art. Wow -- letters are made up of lines!

Jasper Johns

And we used lines in our art!

  

Students practiced their gluing skills, creating their first initial out of yarn.   They then added more lines with oil pastels and crayons.  We learned that if you paint over these materials with watercolor paint, you can still see them!  Some of us tried out some white crayon magic with this technique.   First it's invisible, just add paint and voila!  Magic!  See some wondrous examples of kindergartners exploring line, brush strokes, paint and color mixing below!