Monday, March 5, 2018

Mosaic Hearts

      This is a great project for Valentine's Day that I found from Deep Space Sparkle, which is a wonderful website that has art ideas for younger children. I like that I was able to incorporate math ideas such as geometry and the use of regular shapes like triangles or squares compared to irregular shapes that do not have straight lines that make them. We also were able to talk about what a mosaic is. The kids loved using the glitter tape. You can check out the project from Deep Space Sparkle here


Here are 3rd grade examples but this project works because you can pretty much do this with any grades. We made them with the younger grades as well. I added some hanging hearts from 3rd for a Valentine's cafeteria display. I also had some around my classroom door. 






Textured Planets - Art and Science

       This is one of my favorite lessons. It always does well at art festivals and other exhibits. Plus kids have a lot of fun creating thi...