Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Winter Art Projects for Special Education and Kindergarten Student

Snowmen - ASD Class


Hot Cocoa and Snowflakes - ASD Class



Winter Mittens - I made these with my ASD class.

Warm and Cool Colors

The students loved this PRIMARY COLORS VIDEO and it really did help them learn and remember primary and secondary colors!
Warm and Cool Hearts - from Pinterest - using oil pastels


I found a great youtube video on warm and cool colors.  Click here for the link to this short video.

ASD Art - My students with Autism made these two project today.  I pre-cut the triangle trees and trunks.  Students cut a wavy line on white paper and glued it on blue paper for the snow, then glued on the tress and painted white dots with a cue-tip for the falling snow.  The footballs were pre-cut and I punched holes in for the kids to weave yarn.  They also glued on the white lines for the footballs.  We made these for Superbowl Sunday!
My coworker made these snowmen with her class and I think they are so cool!  They used oil pastels and water color paints.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Primary Colors and Color Mixing Art Projects







December/Christmas Art Projects




Fall Art Projects - Halloween and Thanksgiving


Turkeys - I made these with the ASD class. I pre-cut the turkey bodies, orange beaks, and red "gobble".  The students painted the feathers on butcher paper the day before.  We used paint rollers and tempera paints.  We used pipe cleaners for the feet.

ASD class - cornacopia

K, 2nd and ASD classes made colored and cut out fall leaves.  They outlined the leaves with marker and colored with crayons.

ASD Feather Turkeys - We used a template for the turkey bodies, and feathers to glue on.

ASD - Ghosts.  I found this idea on Pinterest.  I pre-cut the ghost shapes and stapled the strings on.  The kids glued on cottom balls, eyes and mouth.

ASD - Indian Corn. I really liked this project.  I pre-cut the Indian corn and the kids crunched up pieces of tissue paper and glued them on the corn. 


2nd Grade leaf rubbings - The kids used real fall leaves to rub with crayon, then painted blue water color over the top.

Leaf Rubbings -2nd grade - This was a great project.  I would definitely do this again!  We used black crayons for the rubbings with water color on top.

ASD - Pumpkin Pie Craft and Acron

ASD Art - Spiders and Candy Corn

Tissue paper Pumpkins - Liquid corn starch is used as the glue.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Student Art Work - Photos of First Weeks Lessons

Kindergarten student making a Leaf Person.

Kindergarten student making a Leaf Person.

2nd Graders making Leaf Rubbings.

2nd Graders making Leaf Rubbings with black crayon......will be painted over with water colors.

The happy Kindergarteners making Paper Plate Pumpkins.

Kindergarten student making a Paper Plate Apple.

Kindergarteners making Paper Plate Pumpkins.

Nice work boys!

2nd Graders - Leaf Rubbings.

These turned out beautiful!

Excellent work!

Beautiful fall leaves!

This is a picture of what I give students as rewards at the end of class.  My sticker chart has boxes and the class earns a sticker if they all follow my art rules.  Each day I choose different students to take a High Five, an Art Star, or a Smiley Face.   The High Five is given to a student who did a great job following the rules, the Art Star is for someone who did their personal best with their project, and the Smiley Face is for someone who made me or another student smile (sharing, being nice, giving a compliment, etc).  The kids LOVE to earn these and I enjoy rewarding students for good behavior.
Kindergarteners cutting out lines.

Kindergarten Line Variety Project.

Kindergarten Line Variety Project.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Art for Students with Autism

I've listed below some art projects I've done with my Art class for students with autism.

Day 1 - Name Dot Painting, Play-doh, Coloring Page
Day 2 - It was a HOT day.  We made suns out of construction paper using one large circle and rectangle strips of paper for the sun's rays.  Then the students practiced lacing cheerios on pipe cleaners.

Day 3 - We did apple printing, and made Paper Plate Apples.

Day 4 - Mrs. Brown's Line Variety Project

Day 5 -  Apple Trees

Day 6 - Nature Walk to collect leaves. 

Day 7/8/9/10 - Leaf People , Paper Plate Pumpkins, Apple Jack Pumpkins and leaf rubbings.

Day 11/12 - Cute Spiders, Candy Corn