2nd grade students were given a challenge: Use scrap paper and party streamers to create a portrait, realistic or abstract. Here are the results:

You'll notice I accidentally photographed one of the portraits twice. That particular artwork is a portrayal of the student's grandfather with chickenpox, according to her! Another artist, according to him, created Elvis. I bet you can pick him out!
I really love giving kids an idea and some materials and turning them loose. They're always so creative.

In the fall, the 1st-4th grade kids made masks (they were complete and ready to take home the day before Halloween weekend). They had such a blast making them! We looked at different types of masks for inspiration- tribal, animal, festive, etc. Most of them turned out as some combination between tribal and festive looking. I did have one very cute bunny rabbit, which unfortunately I didn't catch in a photo. :(
*Sorry, some of my face blurring turned out really weird.

 

2nd Grade has been working on Op art for the past two weeks. These are a few who are finished. This is one type of art where precision and neatness pays off! These may go in the art show... it has been difficult to pick the best projects to put in the show. We still have until the end of April, so we'll see what all we collect!
This particular design was shared on Pinterest. The kids have enjoyed making their eyes "pop" and they've learned a lot about op art and how complimentary colors work (some did not use complimentary colors, although it was part of the directions, and they have been disappointed with the results).

2nd Grade made landscape drawings to put in the art show. They showed a lot of creativity and we had lots of very nice looking landscapes!