Name Line Designs

These are a fun creation by our 1st grade artists. They started with very tall letters that stretched from the top to the bottom of their paper. Next came crayon line designs in all of the spaces created by their name. Lastly students painted a watercolor resist over each section!

CREATE-A-MANDALA

This is a 5th grade lesson. The students usually work on mandala design print outs when they finish their work. So I thought it would be great to have them create their own mandala design. We studied the history of the mandala and how they were used as medatative tools by munks. The students made practice sketches and chose a design. We created and oil and watercolor resist to finish it. This took approx. 2-3 40 minute classes. On the webpage nga.org there is a program that allows students to create their own electronic mandala in a printable form we did this as a wrap up to the lesson, the technology was interesting to the students.