Special Education and Elementary Art - Basketball - March - Spring Projects - Sensory Bags

I got this idea for "Sensory Bags" from Pinterest.  They were so easy to make and the students loved them!  I bought hair gel from the dollar store and put it into zip-lock bags.  I added glitter, beads, gems, etc and colored one bag blue with food coloring and cut out orange fish with foam.

The special education students worked on sorting the beads into piles by color.

This one is my favorite!

Easter bunnies

Ladybug Art - I got this idea from Pinterest and I love how they turned out!  Students had a chance to use scissors a lot today cutting the dirt, grass, and ladybugs.  We used black beads to glue on for ladybug spots.

In honor of March Madness, my student created a basketball project.  They cut orange circles and glued them on paper, then traced lines with marker to make the basketballs.

Small and large basketballs for March Madness!  Great way to practice cutting circles and tracing lines.

Today we made butterflies in hopes that spring will be here soon!  I pre-cut the paper plates and added the pipe cleaners.  Students painted the butterflies with glittery paint, then glued on beautiful gems.  Think spring!

Butterflies made in the ASD Art class.

Butterflies made by the ASD class.  They turned out so lovely!

Spring Art and Shapes Lesson

This picture is not finished but shows the project we began today.  Students glued strips of green paper for stems, then folded tissue paper squares around the end of a pencil to make flowers.  They traced their hands and cut that out to hold their bouquets!  These should brighten up our hallways and will also be great to send home for parents! (Thanks to Pinterest for the idea!)

Today I talked about shapes with my Kindergarten students.  I found this great YouTube Video about shapes to begin class with.  The kids loved the song and it helped them get excited about our shape art project (see below).

Today my Kindergarten students practiced tracing shapes, outlining them with marker and coloring them in with the matching crayon color.  We also colored the background with crayon.  I talked to the students about "one-direction" coloring and showed samples of what one-direction looks like (and how scribbling is lots of directions).   

Art projects for Kindergarten and Special Education - February and March Art

I used the school ellison machine to cut shamrocks out of contact paper.  Then we stuck the shamrocks on the paper and the students painted over the entire paper.  After it dried for awhile we peeled off the shamrocks.  They look excellent!

Shamrock Collage - My special education students made these. I simply drew a shamrock on a paper and the students filled them in with a variety of green squares.  We used yellow crayons to color the background.  Very cute and fun!

I love when the teacher proudly displays our Art work in the hallways!  It looks so festive!

Conversation Heart Art Project - Students folded paper in half and cut out hearts.  We glued them on white paper and glued on a Valentine message.

St. Patrick's Day Painting - We used styrofoam cups to make these green and gold circle painting!

Leprechauns - used paper plates, paint, and construction paper for the hats.

Name Snowmen - students cut circles (pre-traced) and assembled these adorable snowmen!  Added white paint for snowflakes.

Paper Plate Snowmen - real buttons added a nice touch!

Rainbow Pot of Gold - Students cut a pre-traced pot and drew rainbow lines as a guide for gluing on the colored squares.  Added some shiny gold squares to look like gold coins.  Pre-cut felt shamrocks were from the Dollar Store.

These turned out great!

My 2nd graders made these Rainbow Pot of Gold (from pinterest).  They drew their own pots and cut them out, made rainbow lines, and painted dots with cue-tips.   My sample is missing the gold pieces in the pot, but the students all added lots of gold to their work!

Heart Collage - Painted Contact Paper Hearts and Toilet Paper Roll Hearts

Heart Collage - Painted Contact Paper Hearts and Toilet Paper Roll Hearts

Used toilet paper rolls to make prints (3 heart shapes put together).  Painted inside of shamrock with a paint brush and made a stem.  Then students cut squares of green paper to make a border.