I wanted to share two art projects we did this week. The first were these rainbows that are are now hanging in our hallway. I cut 1 inch by 12 inch strips of the 6 colors of the rainbow. Then as a class we cut each color a little shorter than the previous strip in rainbow order. We left the red strip alone, picked up the orange strip and I modeled cutting off about an inch. Then we picked up the yellow strip, compared it to the orange strip and then cut the yellow strip so that it was shorter than the orange and so on. I modeled the whole thing and the kids did great. Since the kids did the cutting every rainbow is a little different. When everyone was done, my assistant and I went around and stapled the strips together. Then the kids glued on cotton balls. It was a perfect craft to review measurement and colors.
This week we did Leprechaun Directed Drawings. First and Kinder Blue Skies has these amazing directed drawings for teachers to use and are perfect for me since I can't draw, but I can follow directions. You can find this freebie
here. Here are a few of the examples from my class.
They did such a great job and their drawing skills have vastly improved since August.
