Winter murals art projects

So this story of Winter Mural Collaborativity begins with a simple request from my amazing music teacherin' friend: to create a piece for the winter program. The making of this beast involved multiple grade levels with one incident of two classes working simultaneously and another where third grade created alongside kindergarten "buddies". Confused yet? Not as much as my art teacherin' friend Jennifer's daughter was when she popped by for a visit. "I just don't understand why this is on the…

Let's just forget that it's spring in less than a month, shall we? 'Cuz this winter mural is finally finished! Note to self: start winter mural on first day of school. Well, Happy Wintery Day to you! And, if you are here in Tennessee, this year's wintery has meant rainy, tornado-y, and weirdly warm. Nothing like our winters of the past two years which managed to produce enough snow to provide us with some delightful snow days. Not that us teachers like snow days. Oh no! We just spend the…

Art Education Connections for Teachers: Some of the key terminology that can connect with this lesson includes form, texture, variety, proportion, space, perspective, culinary art. What is the origin of gingerbread houses? The tradition of decorating gingerbread began in Germany in the 1800's, and became highly popularized by that eerie witches house made of sweets

This is a wonderfully magic winter lesson I found on the Painted Paper website. She gives all the steps and lots of great visuals to help s...

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Use an easy glue resist technique to make this beautiful chalk pastel winter tree art project. Perfect for a classroom winter art activity!

I couldn't be happier with the murals that came out of the art room in the last 2 weeks! They were made with all students in my 3rd- 6th grade classes. They hung in the gym very easily from bulletin board strips and were focal point at the winter concert on Monday January 17th. We received many compliments on the work. Winter Village Winter Sports Winter Wildlife Winter Fantasy Winter In the Polar Region I am just delighted with how the murals look, now that they are…

A couple weeks ago I posted my past winter bulletin boards. I've been back to work for about two weeks, and was able to cobbble together a collaborative board in the midst of grading all the art work that was created during the month and a week I was out on medical leave. The sky was created by three different classes. Two classes created the checkerboards with marker. They then sprayed them with water to "soften" the pattern. The next day students in another class used bubble wrap and white…