Thursday, November 15, 2018

They're a Hoot! Kinder and 2nd Grade Owl Projects

Kindergarten has been working so hard on these beautiful watercolor resist owls.  I absolutely LOVE the colors that they chose for the backgrounds and think they did a wonderful job on all of the beautiful details.  












2nd graders also created owls but used a printmaking technique to create prints of their owls.  Students drew their owls into foam and then I showed them how ink is rolled over the foam with a brayer and rubbed onto paper to create prints.
  
The trees were made by painting a variety of browns onto a paper and then dragging a plastic scraper across the paper to scrape lines into the wet paint.  This painted paper was then pressed onto another piece of paper and when it was removed, it created a beautiful faux-wood look.  Once dry, the paper was torn to create a deckled edge and glued down to their backgrounds, where they attached their owls and oil pastel/watercolor leaves.  

There were a lot of steps involved but I think it was well worth it.  











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