6th grade art projects

My middle school kiddos are in love with this project! Thanks to Cassie Stephens string art lesson! After learning the process I decided to...

In this mixed media painting we used oil pastels and watercolors in order to learn the ranges of warm and cool colors. With students of Grade 6th we created these trees to recognize and use this ki…

Creative Art Projects for Busy Teachers

In 6th grade, we talked about how colors can evoke emotions. For example, red can mean love or anger. The students took self portraits with ...

6th grade students finished their collages and they look AMAZING!! We used magazines to create a simple picture. We wanted the colors to be ...

6th grade students are creating Op Art using cones and spheres. First, they traced circles with a roll of tape and created the curved lunes inside each creating a sphere. Using a sharpie, color every other section, like you are creating a checker board. Next, using a ruler, create eight equal triangles. Create curved lines in the form of a "smiley face" line in every other triangle. Then create curved lines in the form of a "frown face" line in the leftover triangles. Use four colors to fill…

6th Graders did a really nice job on this project. We started off by learning a lot about the artist Roy Lichtenstein. We watched this video and read through this handout. As much as I hated to, I

I loved this project. This has now become my favorite 6th grade project. There were so many different elements that went into this project and 6th grade students rocked it! I was so impressed by the work they did. I have around 200 6th graders and this is just a handful of the drawings they did, but the majority of students were so successful and much of the results reflect the images in this post. We spent about 4 classes on this project. The first day we did a step by step drawing of a pop…