The Dog in the Moon Art Project

This mixed media project included:

Eye dropper painting

Splatter painting

Shaving cream painting

Watercolor wash and salt texture

Collage

Drawing

Each artist created a simple line drawing of a dog.

Using an eye dropper, they traced their pencil lines in black watercolor.

They dipped paintbrushes in the leftover paint to splatter spots on the dogs.

While the dogs dried outside, they worked on the background.

A page was covered in black watercolor wash

and sprinkled with sea salt while it was still wet. This page was also set outside to dry.

Another paper was used for the shaving cream painting.

Each artist sprayed a plate with shaving cream and smoothed it as best as possible.

They each choose 3-4 colors of paint and squirted them across the shaving cream.

Using toothpicks they swirled and mixed the paints together.

A blank paper was pressed down on top of the mixture.

After letting the mixture sit on the paper for a minute, each artist scrapped off the shaving cream and an unique paint pattern was left behind. A large circle (moon) was drawn and cut out of the shaving creamed paper and pasted to the black background page.

After the dogs were cut out, they were assembled and glued to the moon.

Rainbow Art Party

Ella's  Rainbow Art Birthday Party was a success!  The kids moved freely from station to station participating in activities and creating art.  They got messy in the backyard with paint.  They hung their artwork in the gallery (see it here).  They took pictures in the photo booth (see it here).  After the seven-layer rainbow cake, they went home with rainbow power streamers (see them here) and goodie jars filled with crayons and other colorful party favors.

Goodie Jars

 Guess how many markers are in the jar Game

Fill a jar with water and a couple drops of dish soap then shake, shake, shake....

The guests each dressed in a color from the rainbow.

  

Working on melted crayon art.

Scratch Art and Rainbow Prism Stations

Making rainbows with flashlights and prisms.

Making marker cap necklaces.

Experimenting with dropping watercolors onto shaving cream clouds.

Marble Painting

Spraying coffee filters with liquid watercolors to make coffee filter butterflies.

After

Kid Art Project - Statue of Liberty with Fireworks.

This mixed media project included:

Drawing

Painting with acrylic

 Tissue paper painting

Soft pastels

Collage

The kids painted a page black in their art books and set them outside to dry.

On a separate page they drew the statue's face and outlined it in black Sharpie.

The faces were colored by using bleeding tissue paper scraps and water. To do this, first, wet the drawing with a brush. Next, arrange scraps of tissue paper on the page. Finally, remove the tissues, leaving behind the color. Note: Some tissue papers are non-bleeding. 

When the black paint page had dried they added all kinds of fireworks using soft pastels.

Finally the statues were cut out and pasted on top of the fireworks.

 The older kids also worked on their drawing skills and each made a pencil drawing of
the Statue of Liberty.

Happy Independence Day!