Square 1 Art: Fine Art Fundraiser

It's time again to get great gifts for your family and support fine arts at Colham Ferry Elementary School!  Each child is bringing home an order form with their artwork on the cover and a whole sheet of stickers that are FREE.  Send in orders or even better order at Square1art.com .  Our school still gets credit for the order.  Check out what each grade made...

Kindergarten: Self-portraits

                                                           1st grade: Family Portraits

2nd grade: Self-portraits, When I grow up...

                                                                     3rd grade: Owls

                                         4th grade: Radial Name Designs (See post here)
                                                     
                                         5th grade:  Their choice of subject and materials

  

celebrate upcoming holidays with gifts that will be cherished for years to come. Purchase your child's artwork on useful keepsakes for any occasion or celebration. LAST DAY TO ORDER:10/28/2014

reminder: every order benefits your child's school

iPhone Case personalize Sports Bag personalize Waterbottle personalize

Shop now for unique and useful gifts!

Proceeds from this fundraiser support the budget for art and music at CFES.

Sew What?! 5th grade Stitching

       I found a lesson about painting and sewing on burlap in an old art education magazine and knew I wanted to try it one day. To begin the students looked at my pictures from my trip to Alaska.  I also showed them animals and styles of art from the region. Then they used their sketchbook to practice drawing something inspired from Alaska.  I cut pieces of burlap about 8X10in.  They each got a piece of copy paper to write their name on and use as a "place mat"while painting.  The next class the students painted their sketches onto the burlap. The next day I introduced embroidery and stitching, and how it has been used in artwork over time.  I showed examples and taught them how to create different stitches. They had to use at least three of these stitches: running, cross, satin, and straight.  They could also add beads and stitch an initial.

                    

                                             

Interactive Drawings

5th graders created drawings that they got to be a part of!  They had to draw a movement, then they posed their hands with the action and took a picture with the IPad. 

We took inspiration from Pinterest and from art teacher Laura Toney at MBES.

                                          

Snowmen Shading

       It finally feels like spring so I better get my Winter art up on the blog!  These are 5th grade snowmen made with chalk. They loved making the snowmen look "real" with shading techniques.  We read the Snowmen at Night series by Caralyn and Mark Buehner for inspiration.