Art Ideas

March Ideas -

Earth Day Idea

Using blue and green watercolor markers, draw an earth on a coffee filter.  Lightly spray the filter with water.  The colors will run together and make a great looking earth.  Use the coffee filter as the inside of a large flower.  You now have a growing earth flower!

Cheer on your football team with a football collage!

Frosty Window -

Cut several medium size snowflakes (coffee filters are a great size).  On a large sheet of dark blue construction paper use the side of a piece of chalk to shade over the blue paper to look like frost.  Randomly glue the snowflakes onto the blue paper.  Fold a large sheet of brown paper into fours, carefully cut the inside out.  Unfold and this will be your window frame.  Glue on top of the blue paper.  Use a brown crayon and add some wood-like details to the window frame.  Makes a great looking display.

Painting with tissue paper

Using bright color tissue paper, cut into small squares (about 1 inch).  Select the picture to paint.  Students take 1 square, place on paper, dip paint brush in water, paint water over the tissue paper, remove the tissue paper.  Viola! You have a wonderful looking, painted project!  We used this technique with paper cut into egg shapes-our Easter eggs were beautiful.

Magazine Mosaics

Find magazine pages that contain lots of one color.  Students cut the pages into 1/2 inch squares.  Lightly draw your desired shape onto black construction paper.  Begin to fill in with the various colors of magazine paper.  We used 4 different colors to create Valentine hearts-red heart and 3 different colors around the heart.  Our projects were even more beautiful when we mounted them on construction paper for a matted look.

Coffee Filter Butterfly

Use bright colored watercolor markers, color various patches of color on a white coffee filter.  Lightly spray the filter with water.  The colors will run together.   Let dry.  Gather the filter in the middle, use a pipe cleaner to create a body, twist around the filter.  Curl the ends to look like the butterfly's antennae.