Do you need a collaborative project for your students? This Crazy Collaborative Cactus project for kids will inspire your students while they have tons of fun creating together.

Krahn Elementary's Rodeo Art Winners and District Finalists GOOD NEWS! These talented cardinals will be on display for the 2017-18 Klein ISD Rodeo Showcase! We also have been so blessed to finally have the first (in my 4 years here at Krahn) to move to the finals for the Houston Livestock Show this February as well! The talented 5th grader, Kenut will have the opportunity to attend the awards ceremony this year at the Rodeo. WINNERS from KRAHN Vivian and Jordan in Mrs. Wycopen's Kindergarten…

This lesson will be done with Kindergarten and First Grade. I started out this lesson with books to look through for comparing night and day desert. We compared what we thought it was like at both times and why. The two books above would be great resources if available. I may order them for next year, but I just used the ones located in the library with pictures as our reference material. The previous assignment we worked on was focusing of cool colors only. See Previous lesson here, the…

Guys.. I've been so excited to post about this project! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE my 5th graders work! So beautiful! And best thing is that they were super proud of it too! The subject of this artwork was 100% inspired by some art I found on Pinterest that linked back to the Jamestown Elementary Art Blog. If you're not already a follower - you need to be! Those ladies are absolutely fantastic at what they do! I just added my own flair to it. :) So to begin with we looked at a PowerPoint I…

5th Grade Pop Art Last week, 5th graders learned about the pop art movement and the artist Roy Lichtenstein whose art was inspired by comics. We read a book about Roy and learned how he experimented with many different kinds of art but his sense of humor and precise style of painting made him most well-known for his comic strip paintings. He would often use word bubbles and expressions that looked like something you would see in a cartoon. He used benday dots to create a pixelated style. The…

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Here's a lesson I have posted about many times, and I think I have found the best presentation so far - so new post! Here goes - first I'll share a few pics from earlier... We have made these clay pinch pots with cacti and succulent plants for several years in 4th grade: And since starting our Artsonia portfolios, we needed a better presentation method, so we tried some different ways of photographing our 3-D works, starting with variegated tissue paper which looked a little like a sunset…