More Glitter Spiderwebs

This is a little project I did a few years ago and recently did again with Grade 1 students. It's a great way for them to explore line and pattern and could be a cute Halloween project too. Click HERE to see my first attempt at this project as well as the instructions. This time I made sure they went over all their pencil lines with the glue so we could use MORE GLITTER!! Because well, I love glitter.

London Snowglobes

To celebrate the Olympic Games in London earlier this year, my grade ones created these London snowglobes as a souvenir. These were inspired by the fantastic 'giddy giddy' blog with their snowglobe postcards.

I had my students choose a famous London landmark to draw inside a circle. They then coloured their drawings with textas and addded spots of glue and glitter for the snow. We then cut a round, frame from black card and added a base to their snowglobe by cutting a piece from brown paper and writing the name of their chosen landmark.

Treasure Chest Drawings

My example.

These pirate treasure chests were drawn by some of my grade 3 students. The aim of this lesson was to teach them a little about drawing 3D shape, using line to imply texture and shading to describe tone. I went through some simple step by step drawing with them for the chest and then left it to them to finish them off.

Their line work and shading needs work but I like the overall effect of these.

Abstract Shape Drawings

I recently saw another teacher do this lesson from this book. 

I really like the simplicity of this lesson. But - I probably bombarded my poor little students with terminology as it was a great lesson for beginning teaching concepts like shape, abstraction, overlapping, use of space and focal point.

Students traced a number of flat geometric shapes onto paper with pencil making sure to fill the page and overlap each shape in some way. They then used oil pastels to colour each shape and each new shape created by the overlapping. They were not allowed to use the same colours next to one another.

After colouring we brushed on edicol dye over the pastels, creating a wax resist. Once their work was dry, students chose one small shape within the drawing to cover with glitter as their focal point.

 

Same Lesson...Now With Glitter!!!

 

Inspiration: Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh's (1853-1890) painting 'The Starry Night' (1889).





 I've done these 'Starry Nights' before (See HERE) before but I agreed to let these students add some glitter this time around. Sometimes the kids are right about glitter after all.