Texture Rubbing Collages--- 1st Grade

Our first graders have been working with one of the Elements of Design: TEXTURE. We looked at many examples of items that have different kinds of textures like fur, sand, and wood. The students have fun coming up with words that describe the texture of these these items, such as furry, rough, and hard. To create these Texture Collages, our artists used plastic texture plates under construction paper shapes and rubbed their crayons over the paper to create the patterns you see here. We glued some of our shapes flat onto the black background paper, but save a few to apply with 3D sticky buttons. This made the shapes stand out from the background, giving the collages a fun multi-dimensional look.

"Repurposed" Magazine Bowls-- 5th Grade

Our fifth grade artists are creating these "repurposed" (or recycled) bowls from magazine pages that have been rolled tightly together. It's a great project for exploring the possibilities of unusual materials and for teaching us to be frugal with out waste! We looked at artworks from several artists who use recyclables or "found objects" as their artistic medium.