5th grade art

Over the summer while I was at the beach, I found myself admiring a series of colored glass bottles aligned on a windowsill. I made a mental note to find a way to incorporate sea glass/colored glas…

Step 1. Put a visual dot in the center. Step 2. Draw 4 arms from the center either off the page at the sides or at the corners. As the arms go out they should spread apart from each other or get wider as they go out. Step 3. Write your name in capital letters inside the arms. Always start at the dot and work out. Make sure the letters of your name touch the top and the bottom of each line. The letters will get bigger as they go out. Keep writing the letters of your name until you are out of…

First students identified and labeled a 12 part color wheel using crayons. Then they painted the primary, secondary and intermediate colors onto a larger color wheel paper which they divided into 12 equal parts using a ruler. After their papers dried, students cut out a large white circle for the sclera, their color wheel for the iris, and a small black circle for the pupil. Then “skin” was glued on top with the addition of black eyelashes.

Class displays

Fifth Grade students studied gesture drawings and the sculptures of George Segal. Students then created their own gesture sculptures showing...

5th graders thought about the vocab word genre and considered the multiple genres that are used in art history. We created out own still l...

5th Grade Neurographic Art! | Maples Elementary K-5 Art Mrs. Briggs

In this Aquarium Perspective Lesson, Middle School students will dive right into learning about the principle of perspective while designing an aquarium.

5th grade is finishing up their Chinese New Year kites, so it's time for a new project! I thought we'd go in a more 3-d direction, and create some origami dragon eyes! The kids LOVE origami, and these aren't too complicated to do! I was cruising Pinterest, and found Krokotek's blog about creating origami eyes, and thought I'd try it too. & Sabrina Wingren, with A Space to Create Art, has this project for sale in her TPT store, if you'd like to purchase additional details of this project…

These planets look as great in person as they do in these photos! There are a few versions of this project out there, so I don't get any points for originality, but regardless, it's a great project and more importantly, the kids really seemed to like creating them. The project took about 5-40 minute periods. On day 1 I showed everyone how to create the "waves" and blend them in an upward facing direction. On day 2 I set up a splatter paint station and demo'd how to start shading the planets…

Students will use a variety of artistic techniques to create a bright, vivid and wildly textured magnified dragon eye. When you look through the students’ dragon eyes below, note how remarkab…

1st Grade Art Lessons – Art with Mrs Filmore

A couple of art classes ago, 5th grade started their Jim Dine and Lauralee Chambers inspired paintbrushes! They covered many art practices with this project, and I'm very proud of their results! Here's how we created them! Materials: Pencils 60lb Sax drawing paper Sharpie markers Crayola Artista II watercolors Big Kid's Choice paintbrushes charcoal pencils Day 1: Talk about Jim Dine, and show examples of his and other students' work. Then, I lead them in a directed drawing of how to draw…

Docent: Alicia Frank 5th Grade Medium: Construction Paper, Fabric, tissue paper, yarn Reason for Lesson: Lesson was designed to teach the element of art - texture using the pop art sculpture style of artist, Claes Oldenburg. Prep Time: 30 minutes Preparation prior to the lesson: Study pop art form Claes Oldenburg’s “Hamburger” sculpture. Materials: 6 x 18 sheet of black paper tan burlap, tissue paper, red felt, construction paper in different colors: green, red, brown, white book binding…

6th grade art: Charcoal and Pastel Owls (focus: drawing BIG, visual texture, and value)

Miss Lee | 5th grade piñata project work in progress. I had many students gasp in horror when I explained the part where they were going to chop apart... | Instagram