Mrs. Burch's Art Room

First graders made colorful 'houses'. A candy house that sits upright.

The Elmer elephants this year are designed using traditional 'tangles' from the Zentangle style.

These self-portraits give hints about the children who made them. After drawing him or herself, the head area is surrounded by pictures about what the student enjoys; activities, people, toys etc. In the lower part of the picture the child shows a plate of his or her favorite foods.

First graders created pictures with borders using rulers and filled them with patterns. They made a picture of a scene of daily life from their memory.

The children used Model Magic to create undersea creatures for their assembleges.

The children made a tissue paper collage on a board using a variety of papers and 'found objects' from the art room. Then they formed little sea creatures out of Model Magic and these were attached.

Using the Book 'Elmer' by David McKee as inspiration, the children made their own Elmer elephants covered with patterns.

These construction paper and marker landscapes were made after viewing landscape works by Cezanne, Gauguin and Grant Wood.

Children created colorful fish in a sea grass environment.They practiced careful coloring as they designed their own fish. These were used for the P.T. A. fundraiser.

Children learned about the artist John James Audubon and viewed examples of his bird pictures. They designed their own birds. Next they used only red, yellow, and blue paint to mix the secondary colors in their pictures. The branches were made by mixing all three primary colors together.

The children used shapes to draw creatures. They learned about warm colors, then painted their pictures with yellow and red mixing orange.

The children were given yellow and blue tempera paint and experimented with different amounts of each to mix a variety
of greens creating an abstract design image.
After they had several greens mixed, they were given white,
blue, green, and electric green to experiment with more
color mixing. These were glittered with green glitter, then finished with red paint for a colorful contrast.

First graders viewed examples of masks from around the world. Many masks have symmetrical designs or patterns for decoration. Students proceeded to made their own version of a colorful mask using marker and tag board.