Category Archives: 3rd Grade
BATIK ON A COFFEE FILTER
Batik is the name for a technique of dyeing fabrics. First, melted wax is applied on the areas of the fabric that is not to be colored. Then the fabric is soaked in dye the wax prevents the dye from … Continue reading
FAUX LEATHER ART
This is a very nice project for the 3rd grade that, with a little preparation, can be finished in an hour session. In order to keep this art project from taking too much class time, I prepared the brown grocery … Continue reading
SYMBOLS OF LENT BOX
This Lenten project is a little box that we can use to open discussion and explain some of the symbols from the Passion story. The box can be used during Lent to put money for an offering at mass on … Continue reading
PREHISTORIC BIRDS
As many different kids there are in the classroom, thats how many different starbursts you get. The kids and I decided these looked like what we would imagine prehistoric birds looked like so we added a head—and in some instances … Continue reading
ANGEL
Another cute and easy angel, but this one also uses wallpaper pieces. There are patterns for the gown and wings. Supplies needed include pieces of wallpaper, cardstock, glue dots and glitter glue. You could make a whole choir of angels … Continue reading
Fun Farm
We started our class showing a PowerPoint presentation of Rob Scotton’s art. This is the first year that the first, second and third grades are able to view art using PowerPoint, so they were really excited with this new experience. … Continue reading
BIRDS, OFF THE PRESS
This is a two session art class. The first session will be to paint the papers. The second session will be to draw, cut out and paste the birds on the prepared background paper. The third grade class spent one … Continue reading
LANDSCAPES
The 3rd Grade did this project called “Landscape in Oil Pastel.” We took pictures of the class working on this project and you can see that they are busy. We used oil pastels on black construction paper. This project takes … Continue reading