Kindergarten Inca/Aztec Sun Mandalas

Kindergarteners looked at mandalas from several cultures, including Mayan and Incan calendars from Ecuador as well as rotationally symmetrical forms found in nature.  Using oil pastels on paper plates, each student started with a sun face in the center for Incan sun god, Inti.  Moving outward, they created colorful patterns in concentric circles with wonderful results!

4th Grade Paper Marionettes

Fourth graders created paper-sculpture animal marionettes with articulated limbs. They looked at animal photographs as well artist-made puppets for inspiration and came up with some humorous creatures, families, and movements for their characters:

1st Grade Audience Drawings

First graders created audience drawings based on the work of Red Grooms, whose 3-D paintings and large sculptures we saw on our field trip to BMAC.  We talked about depth of space, how heads looked from behind, and who might be part of an audience.  First graders created a scene, then folded the bottom of their drawings like an accordion to include the audience as part of the image:

3rd Grade Exquisite Corpses

We had a few minutes at the end of class, so third graders made these cool "exquisite corpse" drawings, each drawing one section of a body without seeing the sections that came before theirs.  Then, we unrolled them and had a good laugh at all the goofy combinations!