Pull Out Cards

Source: "Make Cards" by Kim Solga (This is a very interesting book)

There are more to these cards than meets the eye! They pull out and out to show a long message or picture.

Materials:
1) 2 pcs. Construction paper (different colors)
2) Colored markers
3) Glue
4) Glitters, sequins and other decorative materials

Procedure:

1) Fold one of the construction paper crosswise. Cut it in half and fold it again in half. This will serve as your cover. You can decorate the front of the cover as you wish.
2) Fold the other construction paper lengthwise. Cut it in half. Glue the 2 sheets together to make a long strip of paper.
3) Fold the long strip evenly like an accordion.
4) Glue one side the folded paper to the inside of the card cover. Make sure the top of the accordion fold is on the inside next to the fold of the cover. Decorate your accordion strip as you wish.

My First Watercolor Painting Output

Here's my latest craze--water color painting! For the past three months, I've been self-studying water color painting. Its really difficult to master doing those washes but I'm practicing (hehe). Here are some of my painting outputs. Its not titled yet coz these are only experimental works.

Fall Tree Drawing

I found this art project on www.artprojectsforkids.org and thought that it would be a great activity for my art class.

Materials:
1) oil pastels/ craypas
2) short bond paper
3) black marker

Procedure:
1) Draw a large letter "Y" on your paper. It doesn't have to be really straight. Make it a bit curvy since trees dont have straight trunks and branches.
2) Add smaller Y's on each branch alternating as it goes up the branches.
3) Once the lines are complete, make them thicker. The bottom part shoul be the thickest. The other lines gradually gets thinner as it goes up.
4)Color the branches with lots of fall colors like brown, orange, yellow orange and red.
5) Make the background! You can add the tree's shadow and some grasses or leaves that fell to the ground.

The Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh)

Original Starry Night Painting

Vincent van Gogh is one of the most talented modern artists. Though he suffered from depression and insanity during his life, his art works are marvelous. The most famous among his works is The Starry Night painting. It tells so much of his life's despair and the hope that's left in him. Here are some of my sixth graders The Starry Night Painting!

Buwan ng Wika Bulletin Board

JUNGLE SCENES (Inspired by Henri Rousseau)

Henri Rousseau was a french post-impressionist painter in the naive and primitive manner. His best known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never really left France or saw a jungle. His inpirations came from illustrated books and the botanical gardens in Paris. He claimed to have invented a new genre of portrait landscape, which he achieved by starting a painting with a view such as a favorite part of the city, and then depicting a person in the foreground.

Some of Henri Rousseau's paintings are:
The Snake Charmer (1907)


The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope (1905)


The Sleeping Gypsy


I presented a short background information for my students before I made them draw. Since Henri Rousseau's works ussually showed the jungle, I had the students think of different wild animals. Then, I allowed them to draw from their imagination a jungle. I asked them to draw at least one wild animal as a foreground for their drawings.

THE COLOR WHEEL

The color wheel is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, showing relationships between colors considered to be primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors, etc (wikipedia).