Tree Decorations

We have made bread decorations and fridge magnets for Christmas. Both have been painted, glittered and have ribbons or magnets so we can use them at home over Christmas. They look wonderful!

More Christmas Art

Many people put up their Christmas trees and decorations on December 8th.

We painted nice Christmas trees, and decorated them with faces, stars and glitter. They look great.

We also made very cute snowmen out of socks. They are all different.....just like us!

We have made great calendars for next year. We recycled old Christmas cards to get such lovely insides.We also painted some lovely Christmas angels, then decorated them with bits of ribbons, tinfoil and stars. They look lovely.

Christmas in Room 5

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
It is Advent and we are busy preparing for Christmas. We have an Advent calendar in our classroom, and we also have fun with the calendar from the interactive whiteboard on http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/advent_calendar/advent_calendar.shtm We know the Christmas story, and today we made lovely crib pictures to remind us of the true meaning of Christmas. We have made nice papier mache Santa faces, and we will make lots more Christmas art in December

Messy Art Work

Last week we started some messy art projects. We made super rockets out of clay, and we started making Santa faces out of papier mache. There are lots of ways of making the pasted for papier mache. Our teacher makes the paste from flour and water. It smelled quite like baking as it dried over the radiators. We can't wait to finish these projects this week.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Look at our amazing finished products:

More Roaring Rockets

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009We made more rockets in art today. We each got a black sheet of paper, onto which we wrote our names, cut out felt pieces to make a rocket, used coloured wool for the fire blasting out of the rocket, then used potato prints to add stars, moons and planets to our pictures. We would love to be blasting off to space in the rockets we made.

Art: Umbrellas and Rockets

We did some wonderful art this week. We painted umbrella, then decided that they would be better umbrellas if they were waterproof, so we covered them with a layer of plastic. They look great and are waterproof as well.We also did a really nice space scene this week. We used marbling ink to turn our plain white pages into lovely patterns, then we cut out these pages into circles to look like planets. We painted or coloured rockets, and stuck these on to our space scene with the planets. They look really fabulous!

Colour Wheels

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Room 5
We made nice colour wheel pictures. We coloured the picture, and then painted the drum. Teacher showed us where to put the red, yellow and blue paints. Then we started mixing colours. We discovered that red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple and yellow and blue make green. We enjoyed the mixing. Someone even discovered that if you mix all the colours together you can make brown. Later in the day we used the colours that we had mixed to paint snakes. Teacher has plans for the snakes. We might be using them for science when we cut them out!

More great Hallowe'en art

Ms. Flaherty's class have done some marvellous art in preparation for Hallowe'en. Visit her art blog on http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsflaherty.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-art.html
Visit Ms. Crotty's class on http://scoilchaitrionajnrmscrotty.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-art.html