third grade art lesson | laselvabeachart

This project was inspired by Keichi Nishimura and fabulous Japanese artist 🙂 The fun thing about the chalk is that if the students blend too much they can go back and retrace their crane again. Enjoy!

Skill Learned:

Blending with chalk. Making movement in art and tracing skills are utilized.

Materials Needed:

2 small crane cut outs to trace per student and glue onto piece at end
large moon cut out
Chalk pastels (I use the Sergent art set of 12 in class)
White and yellow tempera
Crane and moon cut outs
18 X 24 taped watercolor paper
glue to adhere moon
iridescent sparkles for moon
black puffy paint or black sharpie for eyes

First talk to students about cranes and birds in general. We are near the beach so we discussed how pelicans fly in V formation all going the same way etc. This is so they think about how to lay out their bird pattern. Then I have them trace 8 cranes (in the end they will have 10 total because they glue the Continue Reading »

warm color birch tree Materials used:

Yellow, red, pink, orange tempera (warm colors)
Blue, green, purple, turquoise tempera (cool colors)
Paper plates for paint
Discount school supply 12x 18 watercolor paper (1 sheet for warm/cool painting one sheet for trees
Cardboard cut into small pieces to use for tree marks
Black tempura paint for trees
Large paint brushes ( for painting background)
Small brushes for painting trees
Glue for putting trees on background
Scissors for cutting trees

Skills Learned:

Warm/Cool color palette and perspective.

*Need to give credits to Deep Space Sparkle-I adapted from her lesson and the students love doing this 🙂 Thank you!

Begin by discussing and showing students birch trees and the shapes and marks they have on their bark. Then discuss warm colors (fire is what I use Continue Reading »