Looking for some beautiful winter art lessons to share with your children this season? If so, you are going to love this winter landscape art for kids. Using newspaper and a variety of different materials
Thank goodness we live in an age where we can get inspiration from teachers all over the world! Most art teachers are alone in their building, so we do not have the opportunity to collaborate with our peers as much as the other teachers do. I'm so blessed to live in an age where an art teacher clear across the country or world is accessible in mere seconds! We can all share our great ideas, and not have to leave the comfort of our pj's if we don't want to! Anyway.... As I was scrolling through Instagram, I came across this beautiful project from Art with Mrs. E. Her 4th graders did such a great job, I wanted to try it out with ours as well! We will be starting this when we come back from Christmas break! I love this technique of spreading chalk to create the look of the Northern Lights. Here's how I did it. Materials: Sargent Art chalk pastels Crayola White oil pastel Crayola Artista II white paint 9x12" Tru-Ray construction paper Sax 90 lb paper First start with black paper, and a piece of 90lb white paper. Tear that 90lb piece of paper 3 or 4 different ways horizontally. Then, use chalk pastels to add color to the top of the tear. Rub in an upward motion to spread the chalk onto the black paper. Oh, and add a thick white line in chalk for the snowy ground! Add more color than I did in this picture! I realized I didn't add enough when I starting spreading it, and not much color was coming off! Here's a new video showing how to color and spread the chalk onto your black paper For some reason the warm colors spread and colored better than the cool did. I did 4 layers, but you could do more or less, or even do them going in a different direction! Maybe vertical instead of horizontal! I'll try that next! The next class the students can add paint to their picture, by painting black evergreen trees, their reflection in the water, and stars or snow in the background. Now that I've completed mine, I'll do the stars before I do the trees next time! Whoops! Guess my trees will just have snow on them! When I instruct the students to do the stars, we will rub the bristles with our fingers to create the stars, so our paint dots are much smaller! After they paint the black trees, add the reflection of the lights with chalk to the water, in a horizontal motion. Then, add the reflection of the trees in a horizontal motion with black tempera paint. Stay tuned for some awesome art! Hope you and yours have the happiest of holidays, and a wonderful New Year! Last week we had a 1-2 hour delay, each day, so I haven't had 4th grade until today! Mrs. Fambrough's class is off to a wonderful start, and as usual, Mrs. Stacey is so very proud of them!! Dr. Fambrough's class did a great job today, too! “Lauren Stacey is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.”
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Looking for some beautiful winter art lessons to share with your children this season? If so, you are going to love this winter landscape art for kids. Using newspaper and a variety of different materials
After completing our 'Kandinsky Color Circles' lesson, we moved onto a winter landscape! This lesson is from the blog 'Paintbrush Rocket'. Before beginning our painting, we started by looking at my Kinder'scapes PPT and compared and contrasted examples of seascapes, landscapes, and cityscapes. Then I showed them a variety of images and they helped to sort them into the correct category. Then onto the painting project! :) My kindergarteners began by painting an apple-size yellow circle on their paper. Once they had it painted, I came around to each table and put a small drop of red into their yellow paint cup. Students predicted what color they would make when they mixed the two together... and then using popsicle sticks, students took turns mixing the colors together until it turned into yellow-orange (one of the "super-secret" colors I told them about earlier that hides between yellow and orange on the color wheel)! They then used this color to paint a ring around their yellow circle. Then I came around and added another drop of red. Once again student's mixed their paint cups until they got the color orange and then painted a ring around their circle. We did this one more time and they painted a red-orange circle. Then I switched out the cups of paint and gave students a cup of red paint; they used this to paint a red ring around their circle. Then we added some blue paint to the red paint cup, predicted what the mixed outcome would be, then students mixed their paints to create a red-violet color (another super-secret color)! At this point we ran out of time, so we put their paintings up on the drying rack and cleaned up for the day. The following day I gave students blue paint to finish painting any part of their artwork that was still white. Due to some behavior issues, once they were done painting this blue part, we had to put up their artwork and they were done for the day (boo). Finally on the last day (with our behavior in check!), we began the printmaking part of our project! This marks my kindergartener's first experience of doing printmaking with me! I pulled out my plastic paint palette lids (the clear lid that you put on top of your palette - not the palette itself), poured some white tempera paint on it and spread it out evenly, then gave students cut-up sponge pieces to 'print' on a snowy foreground over-top of their paintings. As they were working on their foregrounds, I pulled out some more lids and prepped them the same way except this time I poured black paint on them. Once students were done with their foreground, I passed out the black paint lids along with cut up pieces of corrugated cardboard and showed them how to 'print' some trees onto their landscapes! I did a quick demo of how I would approach it, then let then print them however they'd like (they could follow my example, or do it their own way). The way I did it though, began with me printing a tree trunk, then transforming the "|" into what resembled the letter "Y" by printing a shorter branch onto the trunk. From there, I just began adding more branches to both the trunk itself and onto other branches. I told them since a tree grows up and out of the ground, that they should try printing their branches slanting upward (otherwise they almost always print them all downward). Students then had the option of using their white paint sponge to add some "snow" to their tree branches. Overall I love how these turned out - PLUS the kids LOVED getting to mix their paint colors and apply it to a more realistic painting (not just our abstract Kandinsky circles). :)
This 'winter landscape' by 2nd grade is great because it covers a lot of art lessons in one: tints, foreground, middleground, and backgroun...
I found this lesson on Deep Space Sparkle: We looked at Monet’s painting “Magpie” and talked about the winter landscape. Supplies: 9″ x 12″ ...
Thank goodness we live in an age where we can get inspiration from teachers all over the world! Most art teachers are alone in their building, so we do not have the opportunity to collaborate with our peers as much as the other teachers do. I'm so blessed to live in an age where an art teacher clear across the country or world is accessible in mere seconds! We can all share our great ideas, and not have to leave the comfort of our pj's if we don't want to! Anyway.... As I was scrolling through Instagram, I came across this beautiful project from Art with Mrs. E. Her 4th graders did such a great job, I wanted to try it out with ours as well! We will be starting this when we come back from Christmas break! I love this technique of spreading chalk to create the look of the Northern Lights. Here's how I did it. Materials: Sargent Art chalk pastels Crayola White oil pastel Crayola Artista II white paint 9x12" Tru-Ray construction paper Sax 90 lb paper First start with black paper, and a piece of 90lb white paper. Tear that 90lb piece of paper 3 or 4 different ways horizontally. Then, use chalk pastels to add color to the top of the tear. Rub in an upward motion to spread the chalk onto the black paper. Oh, and add a thick white line in chalk for the snowy ground! Add more color than I did in this picture! I realized I didn't add enough when I starting spreading it, and not much color was coming off! Here's a new video showing how to color and spread the chalk onto your black paper For some reason the warm colors spread and colored better than the cool did. I did 4 layers, but you could do more or less, or even do them going in a different direction! Maybe vertical instead of horizontal! I'll try that next! The next class the students can add paint to their picture, by painting black evergreen trees, their reflection in the water, and stars or snow in the background. Now that I've completed mine, I'll do the stars before I do the trees next time! Whoops! Guess my trees will just have snow on them! When I instruct the students to do the stars, we will rub the bristles with our fingers to create the stars, so our paint dots are much smaller! After they paint the black trees, add the reflection of the lights with chalk to the water, in a horizontal motion. Then, add the reflection of the trees in a horizontal motion with black tempera paint. Stay tuned for some awesome art! Hope you and yours have the happiest of holidays, and a wonderful New Year! Last week we had a 1-2 hour delay, each day, so I haven't had 4th grade until today! Mrs. Fambrough's class is off to a wonderful start, and as usual, Mrs. Stacey is so very proud of them!! Dr. Fambrough's class did a great job today, too! “Lauren Stacey is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.”
Ink blots inspired this fun & easy way to paint a reflection. Just paint & fold and create beautiful landscape reflections.
I would love to see the Aurora Borealis someday, but for now I'll settle for teaching it! I think the kids will really enjoy the freedom of this project, although we will learn about Aurora Borealis and look at photos, ultimately they will create their own colors in the sky. Materials: Black Paper Chalk Pastels Oil Pastels Pencils and erasers Paper towels I was inspired by these photos: I'll also show them this video: http://vimeo.com/21294655 Which is a gorgeous film of the Aurora Borealis Then we'll talk very simply about what creates the magical lights in the sky. Energetic particles (Solar Storm) are released by the sun and travel to earth's atmosphere where they get caught in the earth's magnetic fields. These magnetic fields grab the particles and bring them to the North and South Poles of the earth. When the particles combine with Oxygen (greens and blues) and Nitrogen (reds, purples) gas in the thin upper atmosphere of the polar regions they glow. Greens are the most common and closer to the earth, Reds are usually higher in the sky. Although Auroras happen during the day too - they are only visible at night. Just the opposite of a rainbow. The Northern Lights are called Aurora Borealis and the Southern Lights are called Aurora Australis. I'll start the lesson by demonstrating and then having them draw a line horizontally across their paper about an inch above the bottom. Then I'll draw the hills and so will they. I'll outline each area so there is a black space in between to define the shapes. At this point they will watch me demonstrate the oil pastel drawing at the bottom. I didn't use any white for this only a few greys, blues and purple. The area at the bottom can be either a field of snow or even a river filled with chunks of ice, and mountains in the background. After they do their own oil pastel portion I'll demonstrate the chalk pastel and have them do some guided experimenting before turning them loose to create. I'll hand out some paper towels for the students to wipe their hands since these materials are messy. They should start with just a few lines drawn in pencil to guide them with the Aurora Borealis. First lay down an area of dark blue using the side of the chalk pastel - press lightly and keep the area just above the mountains empty/black. I used Greens and Blues - mostly on their sides at first and drew with an upward motion, trying to show movement in my sky. I will give my students another piece of black paper to experiment on, and emphasize how the direction they use to draw with the pastels will create movement within their landscape. I will also emphasize pressing very lightly with the pastels on the paper - putting the color on where they want it and leaving it alone. They should work dark to light. That's how they get the colors be seen separately and not all blended together into one muddy area of color. I'll give them a few minutes to experiment on another piece of paper. I didn't use any white for the Aurora - I 'feather lightly' used some blues, then purple and finally a little red in the top ones. I added some light green and yellow to try and get them to glow like the photos. I used my finger to blend the lower edges of the Aurora - I will demonstrate this for the students and have them try it too. The biggest challenge for this project is going to be getting them to stop every now and then to look at their drawings and decide if they are finished. It is very common when students are using new and/or unusual materials to get caught up in the activity of experimenting with them, losing sight of how the composition looks and overworking it. The layers of color go on very quickly - so I'll be stopping them a few times and asking them to access their progress. Once they decide they are finished it's time to add the stars to the sky. I experimented with both chalk and oil pastels - I think the oil pastels worked best. They should use varying sizes of stars/dots - some tiny and some larger, and just look at it as they are working to see if they have a balanced amount of stars throughout the sky. A great winter landscape project with Science and Art combined. 1st Grade Student Work:
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a monochromatic winter landscape painting. This activity helps artists to build skills using the elements of art: COLOR, SPACE & VALUE. A monochromatic color scheme shows variations of tints, tones and shades of one color. This composition can be done with a range of
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This 'winter landscape' by 2nd grade is great because it covers a lot of art lessons in one: tints, foreground, middleground, and backgroun...
We're almost there folks! Just 1.5 days left until Christmas break!! The kids have actually been great, thanks to fun new projects like this one! I was scrolling through Instagram, Ahem... (I mean Collaborating with my fellow Ahht teachers) when I came across an awesome looking lesson inspired by the one and only, Cassie Stephens, and the ever so talented Art Room Britt. They had been doing the fabulous looking Jen Aranyi inspired landscapes with their classes, so naturally I had to try it with mine! Y'all....They have been turning out great, and they were so excited to try it. They loved watching the artist's time lapse videos, and we just amazed with her beautiful work! Here's how we created them! (How to draw videos are close to the end of the post, or you can click on this link) Materials: 9x12" Sax 90lb paper Crayola Artista II watercolors Big Kid's choice paintbrushes blue painter's tape pencils Fine point Sharpies Day 1: Introduce them to Jen Aranyi's work, show other 4th grade examples from Cassie Stephens' and Art Room Britt's page, and get to work! First we taped off our paper, and drew out our snowy landscape. Then we started adding details to our mountains, by adding lines! Then, we talked about how to make little trees in the background, so they look far away, and put bigger trees in the foreground to make them appear like they are larger and closer! btw, after they painted their sky, I sprinkled salt on their paint to create a neat texture. Here are some of my 4th graders, really hard at work! Stay tuned for some more awesome art! We loved this project so much, 5th is going to try it too! They'll be doing a different shape, but same concept! I made some videos this time, to show my students how to do it! I think they pay attention to me on YouTube better than actual me! Haha! Day 1: Students will tape their border, draw their mountains, and start painting their background. When I recorded this, my sky was already dry. I used liquid watercolors and salt. Here's some pics of the background. Here's a time lapse video of me drawing the trees Here's how you finish your art! “Lauren Stacey is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.”
This simple winter watercolor art project is stunning and a great painting idea for older kids and tweens! A fun winter project with an easy to follow tutorial.
One of my favorite things to teach children is landscape because it involves atmospheric perspective, or using value to create depth in a landscape.
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This polar bear landscape art project is colorful and stunning when finished. Tie this in with an artist study of Ted Harrison and you'll have a wonderful Arctic unit for your classroom. Materials: Polar Bear
Ink blots inspired this fun & easy way to paint a reflection. Just paint & fold and create beautiful landscape reflections.
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a monochromatic winter landscape painting. This activity helps artists to build skills using the elements of art: COLOR, SPACE & VALUE. A monochromatic color scheme shows variations of tints, tones and shades of one color. This composition can be done with a range of
Winds are howling outside and the temps are dropping fast! So…..I guess it is time to start creating some beautiful winter projects. I love the change of seasons and winter does not disappoin…
I recently discovered and fell in love with the art of UK artist Jo Grundy. Her beautiful work can be found here. She paints mainly landscapes of her native England, in different seasons. Her work is so detailed and textured, and has a graphic quality. The atmosphere her work exudes is calming and dreamy, particularly her winter landscapes. Thursday adult class collage Tuesday adult class collage For my adults, I was seeking a project into which I could build several particular objectives: a landscape which presents atmospheric perspective; an atmosphere or scene fit for the pre-holiday season; an introduction to gouache, a new medium for most of my adults; and a limited color palette. Jo Grundy's winter landscape work was just it! Her overlapping rolling hills create beautiful landscape depth. Each hilltop is painted with elements (trees, houses, shrubs) which are fit to scale according to the depth of her picture plane - and these in turn are painted according to the laws of atmospheric perspective: things that are future away from the viewer are higher on the picture plane, subtler, less detailed, blurry, lighter, and warmer in color, while things closer to the viewer, or lower on the picture plane, are more detailed, crisper, a most intense color, darker and cooler in color. Observing and replicating this helps my students understand atmospheric perspective, which is an important skill in painting. Jo's winter landscapes also use a limited palette with tints. I love the idea of limiting palettes, as it forces students to mix their own colors. Creating tints with a limited palette infinitely expands our palette while maintaining a cohesive and harmonious atmosphere of soft, cool, wintery tints and tones. Color palette: Blue (ultramarine and cobalt), burnt sienna and burn umber, a dark green (but you could mix your own), a touch or red and yellow and plenty of white. Students mixed blues and browns together to create grays. Blues, green and black were mixed for our dark hedges and trees. To darken any value (for things lower in the picture plane) we simply added a hint of black or burnt umber, while we added a touch more white to soften or lighten a value (for things further away on the picture plane). White was used throughout to create soft pinks, blues, grays, and of course, the snowy white. Brushes: We used many different brushes. Very important was a tiny detail brush (#1 or 2) for our smallest, fine details. We used a round brush with a good tip for our larger areas. A bristle brush was used in a dry brush technique to stipple white paint over top of our elements to create snow, shadows or texture. This is a super fun technique that adds instant dimension and realistic texture to our landscape elements. Process: Students chose a Jo Grundy painting that they wished to reproduce. We taped the borders of our watercolor paper with artist tape or washi tape, which will give us a beautifully clean and crisp border when done. We began by lightly draw in the basic landscape shapes in pencil - so the hills and fields. No details were drawn in, as these would be painted in directly at a later stage. Larger houses were drawn in, but smaller ones were not. These basic landscape shapes were then painted. We started from the top of our composition and moved downward. Sky first, highest hills, middle-ground hills, foreground fields, etc. We observed the values in our landscape shapes closely and tried to achieve a close value match. Important is not that our color matches the colors in the pictures exactly, but that the 'value relationship' matches. This will ensure that our atmospheric perspective is correct. In Grundy's work, each rolling hill has a slightly different value as it comes down the picture plane. This gives the illusion of depth and distance. Once these shapes were blocked in we slowly started adding in the foundation of our details, always working from top down: hedges, trees, houses. Hedges were dry brush stippled with a flat head bristle brush in a dark color (a mix of blue, green and black or umber). Once dry, white was dry brush stippled over top for the snow. Trees were painted in a similar dark color with a detail brush, and snow was dry brush stippled over top the branches with a bristle brush. This technique was used in other areas too, wherever necessary, such as chimney smoke, a snowy rooftop, smudgy shadows, or for texture in flowers or a field. Detail brushes were used to add birds, animals, flowers and weeds. Thinking like an artist: Some students used credit cards to scrape paint upwards to create the texture of weeds and grasses in their foreground. Some students used colored pencils to sketch in very small details, where a brush might not do the job. Colored pencil was also used by some to add texture to areas with fine detail, such as a pebbly walkway. Throughout this project my students exhibited great creativity and problem-solving in figuring out how best to recreate Grundy's work. This is one reason why I really love having students copy other artists' work: it forces you to be creative in looking for solutions and exploring possible outcomes. This project was definitely challenging and the process was slow and deliberate. It took us two 3-hour sessions to complete. Students worked in deep concentration and were totally zen throughout. My role was to help guide them in their process, assist them with color mixing, give periodic constructive critique and support with positive words and encouragement. In the end, they came out of a near-euphoric stupor having learned so much about color mixing, the power of observation, atmospheric perspective and creating texture. They created luscious, beyond beautiful work that truly amazed. We were all elated by the experience. What a wonderful way to round out a great semester in the Art Room - and we have Jo Grundy to thank for the awesome inspiration!
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The past few years, I've tried to do murals with my students...but mainly when it serves my purpose. This usually being those odd weeks during holidays that would throw the flow of my projects way off because the weeks are only 2 or 3 days long. The inspiration for this piece comes from Pinterest...and I've posted it & the links below. I'm still thinking about having some classes create a few more pieces for it, but we'll have to see. The boarder was created for a print making lesson by Kindergarten using toilet paper rolls. The sky is a watercolor lesson created by 2nd graders after studying Van Gogh The houses are greeting card envelopes & collage(I had received a large box of envelopes last year, but wasn't sure what to do with them...I think this worked out well!) The two story one is two envelopes. That was created by my practicum students(the three people in the windows are dead on them!!) I had one another Kindergarten class do tints to create the snowy landscape. The cars/trucks and trees were created by a second grade class. Like I said...I really would love to add to this, but we'll have to see if I can find the time before Christmas break. This is the inspiration piece I found on Pinterest! http://pinterest.com/pin/212865519857041246/ It originally comes from Gallery 2404. http://gallery2404.blogspot.com/2011/01/five-finished-winter-murals.html
Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a monochromatic winter landscape painting. This activity helps artists to build skills using the elements of art: COLOR, SPACE & VALUE. A monochromatic color scheme shows variations of tints, tones and shades of one color. This composition can be done with a range of
My 4th graders have been learning about value. We made these snowy landscapes by mixing different tints and shades of the same color. We also discussed perspective, and how far away things look smaller than close-up things (in this case, trees). My students did a really nice job painting the trees! I broke trees down to three kinds of line to simplify them; the tree trunk is a thick line, the branches are medium lines, and the little twigs are skinny lines. This helped the students create beautiful trees with confidence. I showed them how they can make skinny lines with the tip of a paintbrush, but I also had skinny brushes available so the students could choose their painting utensil. I think it's important for students to learn how different brushes work, but also to learn what works best for them personally. This project took 4 weeks. The first week, we talked about value, and divided our paper into 5 sections. We painted the top section black, and then practiced painting trees. The second week, the students chose their color, and mixed it with black to make a shade. We painted the second section with the shade, and made a little tree above it. The 3rd week, we used the regular unmixed color to paint the middle section, and a slightly larger tree, and then we added some white to the color to make a tint. We painted the fourth section with the tint, and a larger tree. The last week, We used white to paint the bottom section, and the largest tree of all, and little tiny snowflakes all around it. The students seemed to enjoy this project, and I am proud of how well they did.
I needed a quick winter themed artwork for a holiday card deadline and thank goodness for the great ideas at McLean Magnet ES found on Artsonia - I knew their landscapes would be a nice inspiration fo
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I would love to see the Aurora Borealis someday, but for now I'll settle for teaching it! I think the kids will really enjoy the freedom of this project, although we will learn about Aurora Borealis and look at photos, ultimately they will create their own colors in the sky. Materials: Black Paper Chalk Pastels Oil Pastels Pencils and erasers Paper towels I was inspired by these photos: I'll also show them this video: http://vimeo.com/21294655 Which is a gorgeous film of the Aurora Borealis Then we'll talk very simply about what creates the magical lights in the sky. Energetic particles (Solar Storm) are released by the sun and travel to earth's atmosphere where they get caught in the earth's magnetic fields. These magnetic fields grab the particles and bring them to the North and South Poles of the earth. When the particles combine with Oxygen (greens and blues) and Nitrogen (reds, purples) gas in the thin upper atmosphere of the polar regions they glow. Greens are the most common and closer to the earth, Reds are usually higher in the sky. Although Auroras happen during the day too - they are only visible at night. Just the opposite of a rainbow. The Northern Lights are called Aurora Borealis and the Southern Lights are called Aurora Australis. I'll start the lesson by demonstrating and then having them draw a line horizontally across their paper about an inch above the bottom. Then I'll draw the hills and so will they. I'll outline each area so there is a black space in between to define the shapes. At this point they will watch me demonstrate the oil pastel drawing at the bottom. I didn't use any white for this only a few greys, blues and purple. The area at the bottom can be either a field of snow or even a river filled with chunks of ice, and mountains in the background. After they do their own oil pastel portion I'll demonstrate the chalk pastel and have them do some guided experimenting before turning them loose to create. I'll hand out some paper towels for the students to wipe their hands since these materials are messy. They should start with just a few lines drawn in pencil to guide them with the Aurora Borealis. First lay down an area of dark blue using the side of the chalk pastel - press lightly and keep the area just above the mountains empty/black. I used Greens and Blues - mostly on their sides at first and drew with an upward motion, trying to show movement in my sky. I will give my students another piece of black paper to experiment on, and emphasize how the direction they use to draw with the pastels will create movement within their landscape. I will also emphasize pressing very lightly with the pastels on the paper - putting the color on where they want it and leaving it alone. They should work dark to light. That's how they get the colors be seen separately and not all blended together into one muddy area of color. I'll give them a few minutes to experiment on another piece of paper. I didn't use any white for the Aurora - I 'feather lightly' used some blues, then purple and finally a little red in the top ones. I added some light green and yellow to try and get them to glow like the photos. I used my finger to blend the lower edges of the Aurora - I will demonstrate this for the students and have them try it too. The biggest challenge for this project is going to be getting them to stop every now and then to look at their drawings and decide if they are finished. It is very common when students are using new and/or unusual materials to get caught up in the activity of experimenting with them, losing sight of how the composition looks and overworking it. The layers of color go on very quickly - so I'll be stopping them a few times and asking them to access their progress. Once they decide they are finished it's time to add the stars to the sky. I experimented with both chalk and oil pastels - I think the oil pastels worked best. They should use varying sizes of stars/dots - some tiny and some larger, and just look at it as they are working to see if they have a balanced amount of stars throughout the sky. A great winter landscape project with Science and Art combined. 1st Grade Student Work:
Looking for some beautiful winter art lessons to share with your children this season? If so, you are going to love this winter landscape art for kids. Using newspaper and a variety of different materials
Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step How to Draw a Winter Landscape Tutorial Video and Coloring Page. Stop by and download yours for free.
Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step How to Draw a Winter Landscape Tutorial Video and Coloring Page. Stop by and grab yours for free.
