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!!
