Spooky 1st Grade, Collage's & Art Parties

1st grade is stepping up the difficulty with some Haunted Houses - they were loving the details! We sketched together step-by step and then I let them add their own elements. The second day we colored small parts of our artwork with crayons, and painted the rest. They are so cute!

2nd-5th grade worked on collage skill builder exercise 3 weeks ago so I could open the collage art center for everyone. This exposed them to a variety of ways to collage and hopefully got their gears turning about their next CHOICE ART pieces. After the skill builder day all the classes had ART PARTIES because they earned 6 marbles in their jars. More on that next.

Art Parties are my behavior management reward. Every time they come to my room they can earn a marble - you will see an image below of what their class pages look like - they see these all class every class so they know what the focus is and what the clean up procedures are. Clean up is their responsibility and it is more intense because I am slowly giving them full access to the art room supplies as we build our skills.

The Art Parties involve art-related or stem, or simply creative art stations. This time it was a visual tetris game, kinetic sand, How to draw dogs, brain flakes & wooden shapes used to create images. I play music and it is a chance for everyone to unwind and have fun but still be thinking.

Have a great weekend!