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!

Paint a Woodland Animal on a Slice of Wood!

 Here is a video I made for my third graders.  I teach them how to paint a cute little woodland animal on a small slice of wood.

We are using these slices of wood for our annual class auction project for the school gala.  I am going to put these slices of wood at the bottom of a wooden tray and cover with resin. 🤞

I made two "How to Draw" pages of woodland animals that we are using for this lesson.

The first is "Draw Woodland Animals" like portraits.

The second is "Draw Sleeping Woodland Animals".

Here are the Wood Slices I got.  I actually purchased three different packs of three different kinds, and that link takes you to the best ones. 👍