Winter Wonderland Art
Winter Art Projects
Well the last two weeks have been busy at our school with 4 days of skiing. We lucked out and had beautiful weather with around -2 degrees Celsius all days 🙂 It feels like we didn’t do much school work over these 2 weeks. During the first week skiing was Wednesday and Thursday so on Friday my kiddos were EXHAUSTED. I decided that we would watch Maniac Magee since we just finished the novel. It isn’t the best quality but hey it filled the time while my class recouped from skiing.
During the second week we went on Wednesday and Friday so they were not as tired and we could get some work done. We completed a winter art project (inspired by this Pinterest link) that had to be done over 3 days because of waiting for paint to dry. Biggest lesson my class learned….patience !
As I did my example I took pictures so you can see the steps.
Instructions for Winter Art
Step 1: Paint the snow at the bottom of the page. I told my class that about 1/3 of the page should be the snow base.
Step 2: THE HARDEST STEP
Somewhere in the top part of the page paint a white circlish (new made-up word) shape. We used plastic plates for the paint and students had 2 colours only (white and blue). To the white add a SMALL amount of blue paint. Paint around the white circlish shape with the new paint colour. It is okay (preferable even) to overlap the paint to help with blending and not making it look like stripes around the middle circle. Then continue this with gradually adding blue paint to make it darker as you move outward from the white circlish shape. Let dry
Step 3: Using black paint only, paint shilouttes of things you would see outside during winter. Let dry.
Ok this is where my students struggled with patience. They wanted to do the final stage and set he finished product.
Step 4: Add snow if wanted. I used a Q-tip here but some of my students used a paintbrush. It is up to you. Let dry and then display.
My school only had a lighter blue paint so it was hard to make it dark. I would love to have done this with a navy blue paint but that is life. I think they still turned out okay and the bulletin board is eye-catching in the hallway.
Student Examples of Winter Art
Here are some examples that my 4th & 5th Graders did!
Have fun painting with your class and if you need an idea for paint containers in your classroom check out my previous post on reusing Lunchable containers for paint !
Art Pinterest Board
Since this project was inspired by Pinterest I thought I would leave a link to my Winter Pinterest Board ! I would love for you to follow any of my boards. If you have a great Pinterest board dedicated to art I would LOVE it if you could leave a link in the comments so I can follow it also. I am obsessed with Pinterest and finding new art ideas😊
Cheers,
I LOVE these, Terri! I was looking for a fun art project for this week, and I've FOUND it!!! Fabulous!
Jen
Runde's Room
those are BEAUTIFUL!!!
Wow! These are beautiful 🙂
Thank you ladies. Like I said…My students really enjoyed this project and it showed in the final products!
Did you use tempra or acryllic?
Both. Blue, black, and white tempra for the background. The black was only used to make the blue darker. They used acrylic for the black silhouettes and snowflakes. I wanted the silhouettes and snowflakes to really stand out and the tempra didn't allow this.
Hey Terri! What color paper did you start with! I'm doing this!!!! I teach 2nd grade in OR> My kids would LOVE this!
We did it on white cardstock. The cardstock helps stop the curling (well mostly) of the paper. Have fun with it!
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Wow. Thanks for featuring this art idea on your site. My class had a blast making these. I am off to check it out now!
I did this art project with my grade 2 class. They turned out great (albeit leaving the class as a painted blue disaster…)! Thanks for sharing.
I am glad they turned out!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I was looking for a way to make some art for my home that would look nice and reflect my personality. I don't consider myself very artistic, but this tutorial felt like you were holding my hand and walking me through everything. My painting turned turned out so great I'm now thinking about what I can make for this spring. http://peasinapodcreations.blogspot.com/2014/12/do-you-want-to-build-snowman.html
Thanks for your great feedback. I cannot wait to get back in an intermediate classroom to do this art project again.
Cannot read the font
It says winter wonderland. It was much easier to see in person. Sometimes the lighting isn't the best for photos especially when the letters are shiny.
To do it in less time, the black shapes could be cut outs…
I agree about the font and the colors. I call it 'WIRED disease' because that magazine focused on design rather than accessibility so those with some degree of visual impairment could not read the magazine – your white on green is bad, but they would do white on silver! Totally illegible!
You could totally have your students cut out silhouettes from black paper to make it quicker.
I am not sure what you are talking about in terms of a magazine and white on green font. Sorry.
I think they are referring to your reply box, it has a lime green background and the font is white making it very hard to read.
These are great! I'm going to try it in my second grade classroom. Thanks for sharing!
How do you do the silhouettes? Where do you get them?
Students paint them with black acrylic paint.