Halloween Art

Halloween Art is Howling Fun!

I have a lot of patterns to run through the copier which require the children to practice those cut on the line skills, as well as tracers of those same patterns for those years the copier wasn’t cooperating!  However, I love watching my students create their own art using the concept of TLC Art.  Using squares and rectangles of specific sizes, we are able to cut circles, ovals, triangles, etc as we create amazing art.  Developing visual perception takes a bit of work, but as the year progresses, the children truly improve in that area.  Today I thought I’d share our witches and trick-or-treaters.  The trick-or-treaters is from an old TLC Art book or freebie.  The witch we made up as we created it today!  I think they turned out cute.  We added the witches to our “What Are You Afraid Of” hall display. 
We use discoveryed.com & my kinders love the "spooky favorites: twelve days of halloween." 

Here’s how we made the witch:

Construction paper & sizes

Light green 6”x9” (head)

Dark green 1”x3” (nose)

White 2”x4” (eyes – fold in 1/2 to cut 2 eyes)

Black 1 1/2”x3 (eyes – fold in 1/2 to cut 2 eyes)

Purple 1/2”x12” (hair)

Black 6”x9” (triangle for hat)

Black 1”x7” (hat band)

Orange 1”x7” (trim to fit above hat band)

Use black scraps from the hat to make a mouth (some made their mouths like the photo below & some made zigzag mouths!)

For circles & ovals – cut corners & trim/round the points

For triangle – fold in half & cut on the diagonal

**This project took my class about 30 minutes to complete!!