3rd Grade Organic "Melt-Art" Sculptures

These amazing "melted" sculptures began life as a plain old plastic cup. After adding a bit of colored permanent marker and a bit of toaster oven "magic"....they were transformed into very unique organic sculptures. Each artist's piece is a little different than everyone else's, which we love! This lesson builds on a previous lesson in which our third graders learned about the artist, Henri Matisse and his love of organic and geometric shapes.

Fourth Grade "Trees of Life"

Gustave Klimpt was the famous artist that we studied for this project. His Tree of Life painting inspired us to create our own trees that will later have symbols on them representing elements of our lives such as family, pets, hobbies, etc... First our artists used watercolors to create a colorful background and then created their trees with black tempera paint.