Art 2nd grade

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Reading self-portraits, clay snails, and much more!

This week, 2nd grade started their Fall reflection paintings. These were created in just a few steps. This project was inspired by, Lauralee Chambers . You can check her work out on Instagram, if you click on her name. Here's how we created ours. First draw out "Y" trees on a folded piece of 90lb paper, with a brown oil pastel. My example got a little wrinkled and dirty this week! Then, add paint! We used tempera cakes! These are our favorites!! The colors are so bright and vibrant! (amazon…

This birch tree painting for kids is a fun and easy fall art project. Kids will use a watercolor resist technique and gorgeous autumn colors. Easy to follow tutorial.

This lesson just happened to at the right time during the Winter Olympics, which was really a lucky coincidence. Nonetheless fun! As part of the Art Curriculum 2nd graders are to study architecture so I decided to look at that of Russia, in particular St. Basil's Cathedral. I love showing them the building all the oooohs and ahhhs, and then to find out it's a real building--students just think it is too cool! We drew the buildings all together with pencil, students then used sharpie to…

Reading self-portraits, clay snails, and much more!

If you are looking for a unique and modern touch to add to your home decor, then you should definitely try making these elegant salt-painted trees. They are incredibly easy to make, even for…

How adorable are these?!? This lesson took (2) art classes to finish (and I had JUST enough time to squeeze in one more lesson before the end of the year)! It’s a simple one —but packs in a bunch! …

Well, in my 14 years at Zamo we never had rain to contend with during our Celebration of Art festivities... until last night, that is. I must say, that although unusual for San Diego in July, the rain did not dampen the spirit of the event at all:) Attendance was robust and their were tons of smiles to brighten any gloom that drops from the sky may have brought. Again, our incredible classroom teachers and staff were amazing while leading 10 different activities for our community to…

To coordinate with the second grade’s unit on the printing press, I wanted to introduce students to the concept of block printing. I loved the project I found here, but was bothered by the la…