Art club mini-lessons

I have two art clubs, a 3rd grade and a 4th grade. They meet once a month throughout the entire school year. 

Here are some lessons that I did with them

This may look familiar to you because it has been all over pinterest.com.

We put a little spin on it by adding color and more details.

It takes about 1-2 classes to complete, depends on adding color, outlining and details. 

Kindergarten Fish Bowls

We read "I'm the best artist in the Ocean" by Kevin Sherry ( I believe). We started out with a tracer of a fish bowl.
We then drew the main character of the Story, a Squid with a mustache. Then added all different types of crabs and fish, etc. We traced all pencil lines with black Sharpie marker. Then color all fish/objects with crayons. Go over the water with blue tempura water cakes.
Allow to dry. Then we cut them out and looked at them all together, a mini-class critique.

This was a 1-2 day project. The class really enjoyed the story and the slideshow, I showed, off fish and underwater images.

Take a look! They look like a fishbowl that I always dreamed of!

1st Grade Under the Sea Portholes

1st Grade Under the Sea Portholes 

WOW.. I love this project.
I got the idea from a 1970 craft pamphlet, twisted it to incorporate under the sea, instead of above the sea.

We start out with 11" x 17" White Construction paper.
We cap off the corners and then draw a large oval in the center of the page.
We draw mini-circles with x's in them to create screw's to "attach" the porthole frame to the submarine.
Then we add a horizon line.. to divide sea and sand.
We practice our sea creatures together on the back of the paper, and when they feel confident they turn the paper over and add a good amount of sea creatures.
We outline in Black Sharpie Marker.
Color the sea creatures, porthole frame, coral, etc. with crayons.
Then we do a type of crayon resist painting. By using tempura watercolor cakes to paint the sea and sand.
We talked about warm/cool colors.

THEY LOOK SUPERB. They are so creative and wonderful!!!