First Grade Art Gallery
Don't Throw That Away! Robot Assemblage Sculptures
After viewing life size robot sculptures by Clayton Bailey, GreenKids assembled found object sculptures as examples of ways in which we can reuse or recycle unwanted items into beautiful art forms.
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The Very Busy Spider: A Texture Rubbing and Finger-Painting Collage
Eric Carle, an author and illustrator of children's books, inspired children to create these works of art.
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Wild Thing Stick Puppets
After viewing Jim Henson's finger, stick, glove, and marionette puppets, puppeteers built stick puppets based on the characters in the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
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Clay Pinch Pots: Honoring Native American Poetry
In conjunction with their social studies unit on construction, children built pinch pots which are sculptures in the round.
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Colorful Castles: Architecture from the Middle Ages
Before creating these watercolor paintings, student architects used books as a resource to identify architectural components found in castles.
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Fruit Bowls : Still Life Tempura Paintings
In conjunction with their science unit on food, students studied artists who created artwork about food such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol.
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Fear the Turtle: An Oil Pastel Resist Technique
During the University of Maryland's Fear the Turtle Sculpture Project (2006) artists throughout the Baltimore/Washington region transformed four and a half foot fiberglass terrapins into unique works of art. After studying these sculptures, young artists used oil pastels to create colorful turtles in the foreground and used a watercolor resist technique in the background.
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