April Art for Students with Autism

The student's April artwork looks great in the halls!  The students made paper plate butterflies, kites with fluffy clouds, and umbrellas.

I traced a leaf shape on green paper for the students to cut, then some of them colored with a green crayon before gluing the pom pom balls, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes to make the caterpillars.  Thanks to Pinterest for this idea!

Easter chicks and caterpillars.

The first step of this umbrella project was to do the background.   I drew the raindrops with white oil pastels so they magically appeared when the students used blue watercolor paints on top of the oil pastels.  The next day they decorated half of a paper plate for the top and cut out the brown handle.  I think they turned out really neat!

We used a variety of colors and painting tools for this project.  We had special paint rollers and brushes which the kids enjoyed using.  The first painting was with several colors and the second painting was with only blue paint, which we later used for the fish project below.

I found a neat variety of paper in the art supply room this week.  I traced fish on the back side of the paper for the students to cut out (ovals and triangles).  The students cut and glued the fish and added a googly eye.  I think these turned out great!

Today the students used "texture boards" and crayons to make these neat rubbings.  We used these beautiful papers to create butterflies (butterflies not pictured).