This year in Kindergarten

Here's a look at what my kids learned about in Kindergarten Art.

We learned how to identify and mix colors:

Rainbow painting and collage 

We learned how to identify shapes and put them together to make bigger/different shapes:

Pezzetino and Friends shape creatures

 We learned how shapes and lines help us draw things and how to color and paint carefully:

Rainbow fish watercolor resist

 We learned that we can draw things we see with our eyes,and what a still-life is:

Block Still-life

 We learned about different types of lines and how to use scissors:

Thankful hands abstract

 We learned how to make space with big and small things and how to collage:

Snowy day collage

 We learned about radial symmetry and types of lines:

New Year's Fireworks

 We learned how to draw a self-portrait and make patterns:

snowy day self-portrait

 We learned about animals and habitats, foregrounds and backgrounds in a landscape:

animal and habitat collage

We learned about Japanese art and culture and how to do origami:

cherry blossoms and origami

 We learned about the art and culture of India and how to print and draw patterns (on elephants!):

Elmer the elephant and pattern printmaking

 We learned about illustration and reviewed shapes, coloring,patterns, cutting, gluing,and making textures:

Wild Things

 We learned about birds and how to make a sculpture, but all the birdies in their nests flew home before I got any pictures....
Finally, we saw how much we changed and grew as artists over the past year by comparing our first and last drawings:

I'm so proud of all my Kindergarten artists! I have some things I'd like to tweak in my curriculum for next year, but we made a LOT of art together this past year!