1st grade fun!!

     First grade took courageous steps into creativity this week!  They experimented with various found objects dipped in paint to create all different types of texture.  They then assembled, cut, and glue their painted papers to make a mixed-up creature.  Reading The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle was their inspiration along with their own creative ideas drawn in their sketchbooks, that truly helped make their one of a kind creative creatures. 

Value! One of the elements of art

Kindergarten completed a simplified version of Hunters in the Snow by Peter Bruegel.  We discussed the painting first, then we used light, medium, and dark value to color in the worksheet using white, gray, and black crayons. 

 The kindergarteners are beginning to mix black and white paint together! They have discovered, if they didn't know already, that those 2 paints mixed together make gray.  They are creating a value scale using white, gray, and black for light, medium, and dark value.