free art day: mosaic fall leaves

 

I had a second grade class be the first to be rewarded with a FREE ART DAY. This took place this week, and we had a ton of fun creating some fall leaves to be displayed in the art room windows! I used this free art day project as a precursor for our next unit (color and shape), which will be introduced this coming week (10/14)!

I drew leaves out onto poster board, and each student was given a leaf to cut out. I made sure that I had different levels of difficulty for cutting the organic shaped leaves (easy, medium, hard). A perfect opportunity to really refine our cutting skills!

I set up the tables with pre-cut tissue papers in warm colors (red, yellow, orange, brown), and a glue/water mixture for pasting! I first demonstrated how to work with the tissue paper and glue mixture, and then let the students have at it! This project was pretty messy, but my "friends" loved it!! The results were beautiful, and they truly are a nice fall addition to the art room!

Some classes who had finished early with their unit projects on line were able to make some mosaic leaves as well! Here are the leaves we made, dressing the classroom and front office!! :)

the art classroom door

our leaves adorning the front office windows

happy Fall, friends!

Miss Miller