1st Grade: Spring Chicks

Spring is in the Air! Although it doesn't quite feel like it on this 55 degree May day. First grade painted spring chicks to help brighten the halls as we approach summer. For this project the students were required to paint their chicks in rainbow order, using water color paints. The tricky part, is that they needed to mix their secondary colors on their own. As you can see they did an excellent job! The students also learned a simple way to create space in their art, by overlapping. As you can see the six chicks would not fit on their page unless some are overlapped. We discussed how when objects are overlapped, it appears that one is in front of the other, creating some distance in our art! Such a simple concept, but a very new thought for some of our first graders. The best part of these paintings is that the students had the freedom to add "accessories" ro their chicks. i love the little additions they made.