Winter Silhoutte Art

We have gotten so many compliments on our winter silhouette art. The kids did an amazing job recreating images from the book Hopper by Marcus Pfister through a variety of watercolour techniques. Aren't they beautiful?

We used plastic wrap on the blue water colour to provide an icy texture, and salt in the sky to make crystals like snow! 

The students then used textured paint (acrylic and flour) to fill the animal stencils. 

Snowman Art

We used puffy paint to make snowmen today. We linked this to informational writing and following step by step instructions with the Vera Trembach book, "Make a Snowman". Check out our first two steps:

1) Mix together shaving cream and glue

2) Make the snowman's body

Stay tuned for step 3!

Painting with Ice

We continued our exploration of senses in winter with tough. The kindergarteners said that snow feels smooth, fluffy and cold! We used our winter colours (in a tempera powder paint) and cold ice to paint after.

Wow! Stunning Winter Colours in the Hall

I cannot get enough of the kids marble paintings and have already received so many compliments about them to pass on to your children! They sure are beautiful :)

Welcome Back!

Hello everyone! I am back and due to an awesome new app on my phone, posting will be a lot easier for me and therefore much more frequent (fingers crossed)! 

After all of the excitement of the Christmas break, it was nice to get back into the routine and hear all about the kids' amazing winter experiences. 

With the frigid weather making a stunning sparkling winter scene to observe through our windows, we started talking about everything we see in winter. Using paint, we pulled colours out of a winter scene. The kids expanded then vocabulary and learned about tints and shades of colour. After pulling many colours out, we voted on our favourites and created designes with marbles! It was lots of fun! 

Rainbow Craft

The PreK/K class finished their colour unit by making rainbows of their own. They had the choice o using paper strips, string or fruit loops to fill in their rainbow. This was a great fine motor activity as well as a fun craft!

 

 

Colour Activities

ORANGE DAY

Challenge: Look through the magazines to find orange items to put on your orange paper. This was the kindergartens' first time using their scissors and glue at school. They did a great job!

The glue made the paper stick to Landon's hand like a fingernail!

Kody cuts out his orange discovery very carefully.

"There is lots of orange on this one!" - Brayden

Everett makes an orange necklace when he is done his orange collage.

Jedidiah found some interesting orange pumpkins!

YELLOW DAY

CHALLENGE: Paint your plate to be the sun and use your hands to make the rays.
 We need a little sunshine after the cold weather we have had!

 

Oh mister sun, sun, mister golden sun,

Please shine down on me.

Oh mister sun, sun, mister golden sun,

Hiding behind a tree.

These little children are asking you,

To please come out so we can play with you.

Oh mister sun, sun, mister golden sun,

Please shine down on me!



Brayden had so much fun making the rays, that he wanted to keep finger painting in yellow!

Jedidiah is very careful and precise with his artwork.

Kody did not want to touch the paint with his whole hand, so he made skinny rays with his finger.

Landon and Everett socialize and share their ideas about the sun while painting.

When the boys were done their artwork, we had one more surprise for them-- making home made lemonade!

The boys were excited to go down to the Home Ec lab to make their afternoon treat.

Landon and Brayden discover just how sour lemons are by themselves! What a bunch of brave guys!

Kody and Jedidiah squeeze the lemons into the measuring cup.

Recipe
6 lemons
6 cups of water
1 cup of sugar- we only used 1/2 a cup


GREEN DAY

CHALLENGE: Find something green outside and use crayons to shade the texture onto paper.

The boys search for green items in the brown and orange fall leaves.

Jedidiah found a small green leaf.

Landon found some grass.

Everett found a large weed!

The boys brought their discoveries inside and placed them under white paper. They then used a variety of green shades to colour overtop of their green items to leave a textured mark on the paper.


BLUE DAY

CHALLENGE: Throw blue paint at your paper to make interesting designs!
This turned into finger painting very quickly :)

Kody uses his nails to make claw marks on his paper. "A cat is scratching my paper!"

"I need to wash my paw!"

Everett didn't want to get his hands dirty, so he found a stick to paint with.

Brayden loved this activity! He made 4 pictures!

PURPLE DAY

CHALLENGE: Sprinkle the purple powder on the paper and spray it to see what happens. What do you notice?

"It's sticking to my fingers!"

"This is my first time using a spray bottle."

"Can I spread it everywhere?"

"It's making a design!"

"It smells like grapes or cherries!"