Dali's Moustache

With it being THIS close to the end of the school year, I wanted to give my students a last project that was fun! I had read on a few blogs where they had did a lesson based on Salvador Dali's moustache and I thought that would be perfect. We viewed a PPT I created on Salvador Dali. I explained what Surrealism was and showed the Persistence of Memory by Dali. I was pleasantly surprised at how many actually had seen the painting before. I then told them that we would not be doing a project based on Surrealism, but we would do a project based on Dali's moustache. They got a big kick out of that! I showed them multiple photos of Dali's crazy moustache and we looked at different facial expressions. We then took a Sharpie marker and drew a face and hair, cut it out, and glued it on to a piece of construction paper. I let them pick a pipe cleaner color of choice for their moustache. I used hot glue and glued them on. They styled the moustache how they wanted. Such a fun and laid back for the end of the year!

Simon Says... Art Edition!

Since it's almost the end of the school year, we are making a special project for each classroom teacher. Shhh... I can't say what it is! I'll let y'all know soon!! While we are doing this special project, we are also playing an art game. I call it Simon Says Art Edition! Each person gets one sheet of paper and they interpret the Simon Says art commands their own way. It's been so much fun! (Examples: Simon says draw blue circles. Simon says color half of the circle purple and the other half its complementary color. Simon says turn one circle into your favorite animal.) We are having a lot of fun with this! Here are a few examples from one of the classes today!

Cityscapes and Perspective

Wow, oh, WOW! I enjoyed this project SO much! And I think the kids did, too. They turned out so great. I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought I'd give it a try! I did a cityscape lesson last year, but this seemed like it would be a little easier for my 3rd and 4th graders. I showed a PPT of several different cityscapes from NYC, to Venice, to Singapore. They loved how Venice was filled with waterways! We started out by making a big X from corner to corner. The we put in the vanishing point right in the middle of the X. We then drew the horizon line through the vanishing point side to side. I told them we were making building on the right and trees on the left. I showed them step-by-step how to do the buildings, and how to use the X lines to make sure everything is lined up really well. After everything was drawn, then we traced over ALL lines with a black Sharpie marker and colored everything. Here are a few of the ones who got finished on the day I snapped photos!

 I chose to make my Artist of the Month for the last month of school the students at PES! :)

Fantastic Cityscapes 4th Grade!

 Love how artistic this girl is! And I love her Cherry Blossoms! :)

 At night during a thunderstorm! Great!

 A giant lady bug is taking over this city! Ha!

Love the shark airplane!

Love the sunset :)

These all turned out so great! The most difficult thing for the students was to draw the lines in the sidewalk horizontal! They could tell you all day what horizontal means, but they just couldn't understand how to make the sidewalk lines! Too funny.