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.

Picasso: Blue Guitars

This was a really fun project to teach value and mixing tints and shades.  2nd graders learned about Pablo Picasso and looked at his abstract guitar sculptures and collages. Then they built guitar sculptures out of poster board.  The next time we focused on Picasso's 1903 painting The Old Guitarist. We discussed how Picasso conveys feeling of sadness through the painting.  Then students learned how to mix their own tints and shades of blue to paint their guitars.  The next time they added Sharpie lines and patterns.

                                   

Space in Space!

What is space?
The answers of course began with stars, planets, and aliens. Then we discussed what the word space means in art. That if can be positive and negative and that it can be the creation of depth and distance.
The students began by tracing their shoes at the bottom of the paper and their own hands at the top of the paper. They used a little teamwork to help with the hand they write with.  Then they drew themselves as astronauts smaller connecting the hands and feet as if they are reaching forward.  They used their knowledge of the planets from 2nd grade science to add planets, space shuttles, and details to their space suits.  They colored the astronaut and planets with crayons and watercolor for outerspace.  I have been trying to use up supplies that I may not want to pack in SPLOST remodel next summer and even though I let them use the glitter freely it seem to replenish itself!

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Pinch Pot Birds

2nd grade clay birds:
     This project was a great way to get the kids learning about the additive clay method. They made pinch pots and then added beaks, wings, and made holes.  After firing I helped hot glue feathers and eyes and they used a pipe cleaner for the legs.  They are very "crafty" but a lot of fun!