Young Fives

Young Fives get a chance in the Art Room to explore a variety of materials! Each week they learn a new skill and how to take care of the materials. They get a freedom of choice and learn through play and experimentation!

Choice Centers

Drawing

Modeling Clay

Scissor Test

Young fives were introduced to scissors and how to use them appropriately and safely in the Art Room. The poster shown on the right is used to help students remember how to hold their scissors! Students practiced cutting a straight, zig zag and curved line to pass their scissors test!

Collage

Projects

Below you can view guided projects by our Young Fives' students!

Line Art

Fall Forest

Mouse Paint

Students explored how to create the secondary colors from the three primary colors. This lesson was inspired by the book Mouse Paint.

Let's Build a House! Inspired by Mary Blair!

Students created unique houses inspired by Disney artist Mary Blair. Mary Blair designed the ride It' A Small World and she is well known for her vibrant use of colors.

Color Zoo Masks

Our Y5 artists created animal masks out of shapes! This lesson was inspired by the author Lois Ehlert who wrote the book "Color Zoo". The Y5 students have been learning about this author in their library special and reading other stories by her! This lesson had the students think creatively with shapes to create an animal face!

Wag A Tail

Y5 artists continued to learn about Lois Ehlert. We read her short story called "Wag A Tail" and create collages inspired by her use of paper. We also practiced cutting with the fancy scissors to get unique edges on our paper cut outs.

The Mitten

To get us ready for Winter Break we read "The Mitten" and created our own mittens inspired by the story. Students traced their hands on construction paper and then created patterns on their mittens to make them their own. We talked about symmetry and how what you do to one mitten you have to apply to the other mitten as well to make them match!