Warm/Cool Hands

Third graders had their hands full with this project.  They first traced their hand onto the paper.  Then they had to choose a shape to repeat until it went off the page.  They traced those lines with black sharpie.  The students then had to choose to paint the hand with warm colors or cool colors and then did the opposite in the background.   Many key terms were used in creating this project.  Line, repetition, geometric, concentric, warm colors, cool colors!  It was jammed packed with vocabulary!

Kandinsky Trees

First graders learned about artist/composer, Wassily Kandinsky and focused specifically on his color studies.  We were inspired by his use of concentric circles and put them on beautiful trees!