Painted Indian Elephants

Third and fourth graders were studying India in their classroom and were learning about the different festivals and holidays.  The tradition of painting elephants for the Elephant Festival in Jaipur was particularly interesting to students. We looked at many images, including photographs from this National Geographic article.  Artists filled their painted elephants with as many different patterns and colors as possible using Sharpie markers, liquid watercolor paint and Crayola construction paper crayons.

Greek Vases

Kudos to Alex M. for initiating this amazing integrated art project with the fifth and sixth grades as they studied the ancient Greeks.  Great results! They used balloons, cardboard and paper mache to create these original Greek Vases.   

Kindergarten Compost Project

As part of a classroom study of compost, Kindergartners painted a compost bucket for each classroom.

Explorers' Ships

Fifth and Sixth grade artists studied explorers.  We used oil pastels and charcoal to draw our favorite explorer's ship.