Mrs.Williams Art Room

This lesson was inspired by  the creativity of  http://kidslovecraft.blogspot.com .  I call this cute lesson "Circle Creatures",we focused on the shapes particularly the circle. This gave my first graders practice tracing and drawing circles.   Supplies used: 12 x 18 inch construction paper (variety of colors) 4 x 5 inch white paper and black paper 6 x 6 red paper Scissors Glue Pencils We started with one 12 x 18 inch piece of construction paper folded in half.  I gave each table a laminated circle to use as a stencil. We've learned in class that if you fold your paper in 1/2 you will get two of the same objects. So, we traced our circles and cut them out. This always get excited when they see 2 shapes come out. Next, one of the circles is folded in 1/2. The kids used the cue "fold it like a taco", it worked, and they remembered.  We glued the "taco" to the other circle to form the mouth. Next, we took w...

 I love this lesson! It teaches students how to use lines in a picture. And what better way than to teach students how to make a spider web. It's a great review of types of lines. We covered straight and curved lines in this lesson, of course they love it! Supplies used: 9 x 12 inch white paper white oil pastel (white crayon) Black or blue liquid water color Brushes For this lesson I did a teacher led demonstration on how to draw a spiderweb using a pencil. I love to practice before going straight into a lesson. Especially something like this with first grade. So, day 1 is practice. Day 2 they show me what they have learned by using a white oil pastel to draw their spider web, and yes you can see it on the white paper. Once they have drawn their spider web it's time to add the liquid watercolor. I have three first grade classes to do this with so recycling the liquid watercolor works. My example Adding the spider Once they were dry we used black ...

Here is a quick lesson inspired by the art lesson "Catching Snowflakes". Students will create a portrait or self portrait that demonstrates playing in autumn leaves. I usually lead the class as a whole group and teach step by step how to draw their portrait. We begin with head first and continue from their. I had students draw there own leaves but a variation could be using rubbing plates for texture or real leaves glued to the paper. There are many things that could be done here. We used watercolor, but tempera cakes or paint would be nice to use as well. Remember these are first graders so expect a small mess with paint. I will post more pictures as the students complete this project. Supplies Used: 12 x 18 inch paper Pencils/Erasers Tempera Paint (cakes) Leaf Stencils (tracing)