Jungle art projects

Introduce elementary art students to Rousseau's jungle art with this set of four art lessons ending in a unique Henri Rousseau art project.

First and second grade have been making the cutest neon giraffe’s. Here are a few finished ones. Some of them used sparkly felt and some neon paper for the headphones. The ipod is paper and we used yarn for the cord. The students learned about color mixing and blending. We studied the color wheel to see which colors we could blend next to each other. They did a fabulous job! For some reason neon colors don’t translate in photos. They are much much brighter in person! I had my first class…

Learn how to draw a Toucan with this fun and easy art project for kids. Simple step by step tutorial available. #howtodraw #artprojectsforkids #toucan

Our Artist Inspiration is Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau was a self taught French painter who is famous for his illustrative style rainforest and jungle paintings. I really love these paintings - they capture the dense, lush vegetation of the rainforests and jungles, and show the wonderful wildlife hiding amongst the trees staring out at the viewer - they almost invite…

I'm working on developing several Animal Themed art projects for my Art Camp this Summer. I have always thought a Rousseau inspired project would be fun so I decided to give it a try. Rousseau's Paintings are very dreamlike and primitive. He painted several jungle scenes even though he never traveled outside of France. He wasn't formally trained in art and simply taught himself how to paint. I'll show the students a few examples and then we'll do a directed drawing of the Tiger in pencil on…

This week, 3rd grade started their Henri Rousseau & Cassie Stephens inspired tigers! Here's Mr. Rousseau's painting we're getting inspiration from! Tiger in a Tropical Storm Here's how we created ours! My first two 3rd grade classes painted a couple of sheets of orange painted paper, and then the rest of the classes were able to draw their tigers, and make some green painted paper for the rest of the project! We're going to be making a collage on blue or black paper, by creating these tigers…

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