Paper Bag Elephants

I wanted to do something with the scraps from our shaving cream project, 

and came up with this multi-media project, inspired by this post.

The kids looked at photos of elephants and discussed their features.

They drew a simple elephant onto a brown paper bag. 

The drawings were traced in black ink.

Using a wet paintbrush the black outlines were smeared to give the paper a grayish tint.

After drying and being cut-out, the elephants were gently crumbled.

They were flattened back out, but wrinkles were left resembling the wrinkles in an elephant's skin.

On another paper, African sunset landscapes were created, using oil and chalk pastels.

The colorful frame (saved from our shaving cream project) and paper bag elephant were pasted onto the African landscape to complete this project.

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!