For our school’s Lunar New Year celebration, all the students learned how to draw a simple dragon.  The 3rd – 5th graders put them on popsicle sticks to hold and wave around.  Kindergarten and 1st grade used warm or cool colors to turn their dragons into a fire or water dragon.  Second graders folded theirs into a fan, which you can see a video demonstration in another lesson I posted.

3rd – 5th grade:

First grade:

Students learned about the primary and secondary colors on a basic color wheel.  They used crayons to mix primary colors to make secondary colors on 2 color wheels.  The color wheels were cut out and glued to manila paper.  Last, the students turned the wheels in a car.

Students learned about mosaics and discovered the geometric and free form shapes found in them.  For this project, they cut up foam into tiny pieces and glue them onto cardboard to make a mosaic of a sun, moon, or star.  They drew their image with a pencil first.

PowerPoint Presentation: Mosaic

Student Artwork:

Students learned about warm and cool colors on the color wheel.  They used lines to create a silhouette of a tree and watercolors to paint the background.

Link to Presention (has a video demonstration at the end):
Tree Silhouette PowerPoint Presentation

Student Artwork:

Students in the process of drawing their dragons:

Kinder/1st grade

1st and 2nd grade students

Students created a city using geometric shapes.  Using a ruler, they first filled the paper with horizontal and vertical lines in random places.  Then, they added more lines to turn the rectangles and squares into other geometric shapes to form buildings.  Last, it was colored with color pencils.  They were inspired by Castle and Sun by Paul Klee.

Castle and Sun by Paul Klee:

Student Artwork:

Students made a contour drawing of an animal with a pencil. Next, they traced it with a black crayon. Last, they painted it with a variety of colors using watercolor paints.