Painting Winter Tree Silhouettes on Slices of Wood for Gala Auction Class Art Project

 I made a video to teach my second graders how to paint a winter tree silhouette on  Wood Slices I got off of Amazon. 

  

The genesis of this project came from my ridiculous need to make our group art project for the annual Gala Auction something curriculum appropriate.  Even in weird Covid times I thought it would be a good idea to bring acrylic paint into the second grade classroom and teach the kids about proper painting skills while also teaching them about analogous colors and silhouettes!  What could possibly go wrong?

The end results weren't anything like my expectations on the video, but they still turned out cute.

I have another whole blog post about how I put the Wood Slices in the bottom of some cheap wooden trays and covered them in EnvirotexLite Pour on Resin in case you wanted to know the WHOLE process.

Here's a quick time-lapse of when I poured the resin on the paintings.

Waaaaaay more exciting than the video of me filling the Paint Pots I used for this lesson.

Update 4/11/21.... Uh, for being such a headache, this project made the most at the school auction!

Filling Miniature Paint Pots for Second Graders

 

Here is a little video I made showing how I used miniature paint pots I got from Amazon to make custom palettes for a project my second graders are working on.  If you want to see the project they are doing, here is a video about that!

Here are the Paint Pots I got for this project.  They have worked well for teaching on a cart this year, but they are hard to open when you have to do all of them at once.  My hands started hurting opening and closing them for filling, and the second graders were completely distraught about it.  Third grade however, did fine.