Moon art elementary

Materials: black paper, white paint, gray paper, pastels, scissors, glue 1.) The students used a paintbrush to splatter white paint...

Marker and Coffee Filter Moon Silhouette Art Lesson- A fun and creative Fall Themed art project! Lesson can be adapted PreK- 5th grade. created this lesson by combining several different ideas: Coffee Filter Moon, Perspective Pumpkin Landscape with Scarecrow & Silhouettes on painted coffee filters.

Materials: black paper, white paint, gray paper, pastels, scissors, glue 1.) The students used a paintbrush to splatter white paint...

This sun and moon watercolor project is an interesting way to explore the contrast of warm and cool colors. First, follow some simple steps to draw the smiling sun and moon faces. Then, using oil pastels and watercolors, create some bright and colorful watercolor resist art. This is a fun project for little and big kids alike! … Continued

The moon is an amazing structure in the sky and so are these Mesmerizing Moon Crafts for Kids! Learn about the phases of the moon, it's surface and more!

Reach for the moon and melt the hearts of parents. In this lesson, students recreate the famous art piece "Ladder to the Moon" by Georgia O'Keeffe.

5th Grade students worked with tints and shades while creating these beautiful paintings. This was another idea found on Pinterest....yes, I know - I'm a thief! This was a quick 2 day art lesson - but may have even been done in less. After doing our color wheel worksheet and then discussing tints and shades, student were given blue and white paint. They began by painting a white moon towards the center of the painting. Then gradually created tints by adding a touch of blue to the white, then…

Learn how to paint the moon! Learn the techniques for painting a realistic moon step by step with acrylic paints.

Mrs. Johnson's 2nd grade Carter, Ria & Reggie ------------- Mrs. White's 2nd grade Justine, Angel, Valery, Kayla, Patrick, Emma & Hailey --------- Mrs. McMillian's 2nd grade class Oxygen, Caleb, Nicolas, Danish, Christopher & Miya. -----CONTRAST- In design, the definition of Contrast is: Definition: refers to the arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.) in a piece so as to create visual interest, excitement and drama…

This was a fun first lesson for my youngest artists! We started with this wonderful book by Kevin Henkes and discussed the importance of illustrations in a book to help tell the story - in this case, the story of a kitten chasing the moon because he thought it was a bowl of milk. After discussing the neutral colors of the book to represent nighttime, we drew a large circle using a tracer and a variety of lines and shapes below for the flowers and grass. We traced and colored with white and…