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Holiday Sculpture Jars
(15 art)
from Dec 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The 5th & 6th grade students created these jar sculptures as Christmas presents for their parents. Each student brought ...
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Christmas Stained Glass Window Art
(11 art)
from Dec 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The 3rd & 4th grade students created window art for their parent for Christmas. It was done using special window art pai ...
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Snowmen
(8 art)
from Dec 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The pre-k and kindergarden children created 4' snowmen out of paper. Each child was given a hat, mitten, scarf, carrot, ...
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Christmas Trees
(17 art)
from Dec 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The children "decked the halls" with these 4' painted Christmas trees. The trees have cut paper ornaments including snow ...
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Thanksgiving Placemats
(11 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The children wove placemats out of paper and then decorated them. Each has listed something he or she is thankful for.
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Footprint Flag
(14 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Meg Buchner and Miss Nelson
Miss Nelson and Mrs. Buchner worked together with the Pre-K/Kindergarten students to make the footprint flag.
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Handprint Fall Tree
(13 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Miss Nelson
We stamped our handprints with orange, yellow, and red paint to make leaves. Miss Nelson cut out our handprints and cre ...
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Hanging Patriotic Hearts
(12 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Miss Nelson
Miss Nelson cut out the hearts and the students glued and the blue top section, the red strips, and the stars to the hea ...
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Leaf Outline
(14 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Miss Nelson
We collected leaves and placed one on our paper. We painted over the entire leaf to leave the outline on the paper. We ...
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Footprint Ghost
(11 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Miss Nelson
We enjoyed the feeling of paint between our toes as we painted with our feet!
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Early Settler's Cabin
(13 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Miss Nelson
We discussed early settlers in America as part of our Thanksgiving unit. Early settlers had to build their houses out o ...
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Noodle Pumpkins
(13 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Miss Nelson
We discussed how jack-o-lanterns can have different facial expressions and emotions just like people and we practiced dr ...
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Textured Finger Paintings
(16 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
Using acrylic paint thickened with pudding paint, the children were given a dish with the primary colors to finger paint ...
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Deep sea mixed media paintings
(8 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The students began by using oil pastels to draw creatures of the sea from mermaids to seaweed. Next, they painted over t ...
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Van Gogh Texture Paintings
(28 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
After studying the work of Van Gogh, the students created paintings using thick textured paint (pudding paint) added to ...
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Letter Collage: Parts of the Whole
(34 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
In honor of Veterans Day, the students made two 30 foot long banners for our Veteran's Day program. The catch: they had ...
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Monochromatic Paintings
(7 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The students created paintings using only the different shades and hues of one color paint. The different hues were crea ...
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Veterans Day Posters
(7 art)
from Nov 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The 7th and 8th grade students created posters for our Veterans Day Program. First they reviewed the designs of posters ...
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Reverse Monsters
(49 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The children created cut paper monsters for Halloween using 1-1/2 sheets of colored paper. The objective was to learn ab ...
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Leaf Lions
(12 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The students were studying art in nature and created these leaf lions with leafs, sticks, grasses and other items from n ...
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Woodland Fairies
(9 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
These woodland fairies were created with leafs, sticks, grasses and other items from nature. The body parts are made fro ...
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Woodland Creatures
(28 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The children discussed the earliest and primitive forms of artwork such as cave paintings and carvings. Early artists us ...
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Fire Awareness Blown Painting
(11 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Miss Nelson
This project was completed during Fire Prevention Week. The students placed drops of paint on their picture of a house ...
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Dalmation Dot Paintings
(13 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Miss Nelson
The students practiced their counting skills while adding dots to their dalmation as part of Fire Prevention Week.
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Pumpkin Decorating and Carving
(46 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
We are very lucky at St. Charles to have so many supporters. Thank you to Pedretti's Kwik Stop, Hickory Hollow Farms, Ge ...
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Weaving with Paper
(20 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The students created weavings using colored paper.
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What's My Line?
(13 art)
from Oct 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
The students studied types of lines (vertical, horizontal and diagonal) and went on a "line hunt." Each child was given ...
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Life Size Self Portraits
(12 art)
from Sep 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
For these life size self portraits the students had partners. Each child lay down and traced around the other. Once the ...
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Life Size Mixed Media Portraits
(9 art)
from Sep 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
For these life size self portraits, the students had partners, lay down and traced around each other. Once the outline w ...
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Name Paper Collages
(20 art)
from Sep 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
After studying the paper collages of Henry Mattise, the students created their own cut paper collages. They were encoura ...
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Self Portraits Digitally Inspired
(3 art)
from Sep 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
We began by taking digital photos of each student. In PhotoShop, the photos were converted to black and white, desaturat ...
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Printmaking from Nature
(8 art)
from Sep 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
These mixed media works started with the students drawing a tree trunk and branches in crayon. Then the class went for a ...
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Recycling Robots
(50 art)
from Sep 2008, taught by Meg Buchner
These recycling robots were created as a group project for all grade levels, pre-K through 8th. The older children did a ...
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