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!

Spoopy (spooky) Silhouettes - Printable Lesson, Tacer, & Clipart for Halloween

Last year I was asked to leave an art project for the 5-8th grade to do during their Halloween Party/free time afternoon.  Unlike what sometimes happens, I did not get a classroom full of kiddos in head-to-toe costume dropped off to have art class in lieu of their party...or after their party.  

I did not want to leave something lame, but I didn't want to leave anything too involved since I wasn't going to be there.  Hence, Spoopy Silhouettes was born.

It's a classic Pinterest project.  All I've done is put it into one nice downloadable package for you. This is a nice one to do on Halloween when you do have to teach, but you don't dare touch those beautiful landscapes the kids have been working on for weeks, or get out the chalk pastel self-portraits.

The lesson includes:

2 page printable instructions

1 tracer

10 pages of halloween clipart - from the internet, I just curated them for this project.  I did not draw them!

You will need:

Sharpie Marker

Scissors

Liquid School Glue

Coffee filters

Pencils

Watercolor Paints & supplies

Black Construction Paper

Crayons

We put our coffee filters on the air vents to dry quickly! 

Happy Halloween!