Fall Art

As fall approaches, students are busy managing two art projects simultaneously. Students are starting to create fall themed projects, with subjects like pumpkins, fall trees, haunted mansions, monsters, and bats. Additionally, they are working on their second major choice/W.O.W (wonderful original work of art) project.

If you walked into the art room this week or last week, you would find first graders learning how to identify, draw, and cut shapes to compose pictures. They would be working on creating Frankensteins out of rectangles, triangles, semicircles, and squares, as well as their choice shape collages.

You would see second graders learning about primary and secondary colors while they create their painted paper collages, as well as pumpkin reflections for their fall project. They would be creating things like pumpkins, trains, animals, people, towns, and sports in their collages.

1st and 2nd Grade

If you walked into a third grade class, you would see them learning various painting techniques including sponge painting, blow painting, drip painting, q-tip painting, and splatter painting. They would be creating fall trees with blow paint and splatter paint, bat and haunted house sponge paintings, and you would see them beginning to plan their second choice W.O.W project that incorporates these painting techniques. These active types of painting techniques work really well when creating texture and things that erupt or explode. Asking third graders what types of things erupt, they answer: “volcanoes,” “pickle jars,” “fireworks,” “a pop when you put Mentos in it,” etc. All of these responses gave them ideas for their choice project.

3rd Grade

You would see fourth and fifth graders learning multiple cardboard attachments and beginning to working on their second choice/W.O.W project. You would see things like robots, ATMs, Ferris wheels, castles, and Minecraft characters made out of cardboard. Fourth grade is also working on black paper cutout haunted houses and tree scenes. Fifth grade is also working on mixing tints and shades, painting spooky moon backgrounds with fall trees or bats in the foreground.

4th and 5th Grade

If you visited the art room with sixth grade this week, you would see them building plaster sculptures for their choice projects and creating haunted house or forest scenes for fall. You would see students working on projects like large pencils, hot air balloons, eyes, vases, unicorns, letters, donuts, baseball bats, and palm trees being created out of newspaper, cardboard, tape, and paper mache.

6th Grade

As you can see, these students at Goodrich are extremely creative, and lucky for me, they keep things very exciting in the art room!