Believe it or not but spring is just around the corner!
What better way to celebrate the impending arrival of spring but with some lovely spring artwork! Here are a variety of ideas (ok, most of them have to either do with flowers or rain) for you to use in your classroom!
This time I tried to avoid going to my favourite art teaching blog to get some other ideas... which unfortunately means that they don't all have instructions for how to make them!... it's so much easier when you have instructions so I'll try to explain how I would make some of these that don't have instructions listed (in English) on their websites.
Anyways, to start off with we have some flower art pieces
You can find these here
To make these what I would do is have kids start by taking a piece of construction paper and decorating it to be their base. They could then cut out the shape that they want but leave a little extra on each end to staple it onto the black piece of construction paper.
Then you could look up a bunch of different how to make different kids of flowers pages but what I would do is just have kids come up with their own ideas for how to create flowers (and stems and leaves) out of construction paper and see what they come up with!
You can find this one here
It's hard to know where to start with this one... I guess you could start by gluing half of a dixie cup onto a black piece of construction paper. Then I would have kids make the flowers using the wrong end of a paint brush so that it makes dots. Next, they could flip their paint brushes over to add lines to their flowers and the stems (which should all end up in the dixie cup). Finally, have students create leaves out of construction paper and glue them down.
You can find this one here
To make this one I would have kids cut out different sized circles from construction paper and then spiralize them by cutting the spirals into them. Then, make a vase out of paper and glue it down onto a piece of colored paper. Next, glue down all those spiralized circles that you made earlier, but just glue down the outer circle so that the flowers can "pop" out. Then add leaves.
You can find this one here and using the translate option on Google Chrome I was able to make sense of the instructions!
You can find this one here (with instructions)
You can find this one here (with instructions)
You can find this one here (with instructions)
You can find this bug art work here.
To start this project I would have kids water colour one piece of water colour paper (trust me, it works better than regular paper). Then give each student half a piece of black paper and have them draw half of a bug along the edge of the page and carefully cut it out. Glue the "scrap" piece of black paper carefully on one side of your water colour paper (line up the corners as best as you can) and then glue the half a bug you have to the other water coloured side of the paper (careful to make sure you are gluing it down so that it is symmetrical to the already cut out side).
You can find this one here
To make this artwork I would start by having students draw a rainbow (using crayons) on a piece of white paper. Then have them use a white crayon to make rain drops and/or puddles on the ground. Then have them paint over everything with different shades of blue. The paint should leave the white crayon showing through so that you can see the raindrops.
Then, take each students picture (I would just let them do it however they want) but tell them to pretend to be holding an umbrella. Print the pictures and have students carefully cut themselves out of it.
They will also need to design and colour an umbrella in a size that makes sense to their picture. Glue down the umbrella, glue down their picture.
You can find this one here (with instructions)
If you are looking for some art ideas for other seasons here are a few other blog posts I've done similar to this one:
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