Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts

Saturday, 31 October 2015

Starlight Pumpkins

October 28th

Here's another fantastic art project!  This was a multi-step, multi-day project and I think it turned out beautifully!  First students drew pumpkins in pencil, then we traced in black pastel.  After the drawing we painted the pumpkins with three colours: red, orange, yellow.  The students were asked to focus on colour mixing and blending, but not too much, the final product was supposed to show all three colours.  Finally we cut the pumpkins out, added white chalk for highlights and glued the project to black paper.

These pumpkins are supposed to look like they are glowing in the moonlight.



Pumpkin Stories

October 26th.

This week we have been busy writing pumpkin stories.  The final draft for the stories was written on to pumpkin pieces which the students then turned in to a 3D pumpkin!  I saw this idea on pinterest and thought we'd give it a try.  Very cool!

We took inspiration from a couple of books about pumpkins.  After listening to the stories students came up with their own pumpkin stories.  Each story had to include some sort of a  problem that had to be solved by the end.

Check them out!







Here is one of the books we read for inspiration before starting the project.

Too Many Pumpkins, by Linda White

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