Pablo Picasso.  After hearing about Picasso's life, fifth graders looked at some of the many clowns painted by Picasso.  They were told to paint a Blue Period or a Rose Period clown.  They painted with tempera paints (blue or red, black and white only).  They had to mix tints and shades to do their paintings on canvas boards. Then we looked Picasso's more abstract paintings - especially The Three Musicians.  They made a collage based on this.  They had to create three musicians (one could be a singer with a microphone).  Each musician had to have an instrument.  They were told to use mostly geometric shapes.  They had a pick a color scheme such as monochromatic, primary, secondary, analogous, neutral, complimentary, etc.  They were allowed to add music notes with a marker as a finishing touch.   Claude Monet: Paint yourself and one or more people that are important to you on Monet's bridge.  Bridge, clouds, water lilies, and people are done in oil pastel.  Water and sky are done in water colors using wet-on-wet technique.  2nd Grade . This would be a wonderful lesson for "Bridging the world together for Peace".  Maybe show different cultures coming together on Monet's Bridge. Henri Rousseau:   Students looked  at Rousseau's "The Merry Jesters".  They made a collage using many different tints and shades of green paper, 3D dots, glue, cellophane, yarn, animal print paper and hole punchers.
Weaving Pictured here are weavings -  paper and yarn.  Students painted strips with water colors to weave into their black paper warp. The students wove a photo frame - an original idea of Mrs. McClain's. Many framed their own photograph. Shown - a favorite pet. On the bulletin board (below) are pillows, photo frames, wall hangings and purses. Click to see larger image.  .
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