Kindergarten Winter landscapes

Kindergarten Winter Landscapes

I wasn't sure how this was going to turn out with my kindergartners but they really did a great job! 

I showed them how to draw a winter tree with a black oil pastel on a 12" x 9" piece of multi media paper. They took a white oil pastel, drew snow in the sky and colored snow around the bottom of their tree. They could add a snowman, a bird or anything they thought would look nice in their winter landscape. 

 The last two steps were to paint over the sky with liquid watercolors. They could use blue, purple and green. Lastly, they sprinkled salt while it was still wet all over the sky creating the appearance of ice crystals. You can see my demonstration video below. 

The next day students rubbed any extra salt off , glued a piece of black paper to the back (I helped them with this) and drew snowflakes around the edges with a white construction paper crayon. 

1st grade winter patterned trees

1st grade winter patterned trees

Part one of my demonstration. 

Part two of my demonstration. 

On day one I provided each student with 6, 3" x 6" pieces of multi media paper. I taught the students to put a dot at the top of each paper vertically and then draw diagonal lines down the side to make triangles. 

Students then traced the triangles and added patterns with a white oil pastel. Remind students to draw dark!

Students painted over the triangle trees with liquid watercolors. They loved this part!

I always think it helps to write the steps on the board. 

On day two, students cut out their trees, glued them to a 12" x 18" navy piece of construction paper. They added tree trunks and snowflakes with oil pastels.

Love Love Love!!!

Kindergarten Jasper Johns stencil art

Kindergarten Jasper Johns stencil art 

Thanks to 2 Soul Sisters for this idea. I just changed it a bit to fit the needs of my kindergartners.  My students love the art of Jasper Johns. We discussed his paintings and how he may have created them and then set to work. 

This is our inspiration painting

"Alphabet" ( the Art Institute of Chicago). 

We sponged painted a primary or secondary color on our 9" x 12" multi media papers. 

  Using florescent tempera paint (washable) students chose a stencil, gently placed it on top and blotted paint in the letters. They loved the results and using the bright colors. This was so easy and they had so much fun!