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Ideas for classroom art projects for AUCTION?

14 years 1 week ago #154887 by Lisa @ PTO Today
Replied by Lisa @ PTO Today on topic Re:Ideas for classroom art projects for AUCTION?
CMay2CK-
Thanks SO MUCH for sharing the instructions to this beautiful project. You rock!

~Lisa


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14 years 1 week ago - 14 years 1 week ago #154875 by CMay2CK
I have received several emails for the directions for the watercolor handprint project, so I thought I would post them. Enjoy!

First, the kids traced their hands, with part of their arm, then water colored them. The teacher had each child cut their own. This is up to you. Some of the hands turned out a bit alienish, so having an adult cut them may be preferable.
At home, I painted the canvas. I believe it was a 24x36 inch canvas. First I painted the whole thing blue. I used Acrylic paints. Then I used painter’s tape to section off the area I wanted black, then painted over the tape again in the blue. This keeps it from bleeding. When it was dry, I painted the black. The interior was done with a stipling type brush stroke (basically a quick dab with the end of the brush) with mixing up white and blue. It was really an experiment in progress. When it looked pretty much even, we stopped.

I sprayed each hand with an acrylic gloss sealer so that the watercolors would not bleed during the decoupaging. When they were dry, I laid them out on the canvas to see what would work best. After decided which order to put them in, I cut some of the hand shorter to be the lower ones. I used the decoupage medium to paste the hands on. (I made a "map" of the hands to show where each child's two handprints were and laminated it and stapled it to the back of the canvas.)

When the decoupaged hands were dry, I painted the red acrylic heart a bit off center.
When dry, I used a black Sharpie to write “With Heart and Helping Hands, A Child Can Accomplish Anything…” around the right side of the heart. When I was sure the sharpie would not smear, I painted two coats of decoupage medium across the entire surface.

I've added a few pics of the stages to my Photobucket album.
s356.photobucket.com/albums/oo9/cmay2ck/Class%20Art%20Projects/
14 years 1 week ago #154874 by CMay2CK
The watercolor hands project was not a fleece blanket, it was a collage canvas. Although you could create a blanket by taking a quality, high-resolution picture of the canvas. The sunflower drawings were the fleece blanket. They are page size pictures with backgrounds that fill the rectangle. I hope that helps clear up the confusion. :-)
14 years 1 week ago #154845 by jmj522
I too have the same question about the hand fleece blanket from Walmart.com. Could you email me with the details as well. It's a great idea for my first graders! Thank you in advance! Jennifer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
14 years 1 month ago #154425 by CMay2CK
Yasmin,
I hope my email helped. :-)
14 years 1 month ago #154400 by Yasmin
I have a question about the collage from Walmart. How did you get the hand pictures cropped like that to not include a square picture of the hand? i hope you understand my Question.
thanks.

yasmin
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