Houlton Art Show

The First Annual Houlton Art & Music Show will be this Thursday! We have a recycling theme this year. I have almost all of the artwork up, so I grabbed the camera (before it all gets knocked down!)

Kindergarten Louise Nevelson Assemblage projects.

First graders created flowerpots out of the insides of floppy discs.

Second grade used mixed media to create lions in the jungle, ala Henri Rousseau. These are displayed across from the first graders' flowerpots.

Third grade used pebbles to create a mosaic of a tree.

This photo shows third, fourth, and fifth grade projects. I will be moving to table farther down for the actual show. We're using it to block kids from the pebble mosaics because they are across the hall from curious kindergarteners.

Fourth grade magazine bowls.

Fifth grade CD Mobiles. I haven't figured out how I'm going to photo these for Artsonia yet!

Egg Carton Lions

I got the idea for this project from a work of art that was displayed at the Capitol for Wisconsin Art Education Association's Youth Art Month Exhibit in 2009 and modified it, adding a bit of my own ideas to create these. They are for our recycling themed art show.

LEARNING TARGETS:
-Create a work of art using recycled materials.
-Students will recognize art by Henri Rousseau.

TERMS:
Henri Rousseau: An artist most known for his paintings of jungles.

MATERIALS:9" X 10" Foamcore Board
Tissue Paper; strips of greens and browns, small squares of many colors.
Construction paper in greens
Egg Cartons
Paint; I used Pear, Golden Brown, and King's Gold Acrylic paints for lions and green Tempera Cakes for the background.Paint Brushes
Water/Containers
Garland
Glue
Brown/Black Markers
Twisteez Wire
Wiggle Eyes

We began with a discussion of paintings by Henri Rousseau. Students noticed how full the images are, and that often, the animals are partialy hidden in the plants. Next, we painted the foamcore board solid green, and the egg cartons any of the "lion colors" that I had poured. Students were asked to have three or four lions in their picture and they put them on a paper plate with their name on it to dry.

Next class, students used brown or black marker to draw the mouth and nose on the lions and glued them to the foamcore board. Then they worked on making tissue paper flowers. I asked them to have at least three flowers.

During the third class period, they glued eyes on each lion. They were allowed to have different sizes of eyes on different lions, but I told them to make sure that each lion had they same size eyes. I showed them how to cut long triangles out of green paper to make a strip of "grass." They were given the option of having a "tree" in their image, or not, but asked to make sure the whole board looked full. They used strips of tissue paper and twisted them to make the trees, branches, and vines. They glued their trees, vines, flowers, and grass into the picture.

Lastly, Students were given old Christmas garland and they glued it around each of their lions to create a mane. They turned out wonderful!