MH - Making Paint!

Ms. Schuler's MH class did an awesome job making watercolor paints out of old, dried up markers!  Each time a student brought me a dried out marker this year, I stored it away in a box with the intention of reusing them somehow.  Turns out you can soak them in water and make your own paint.  I thought this would be a great activity to do with the special needs students I see each week, and they really did a nice job!

Here are the instructions I drew on the board for them to look at as we went along.

Here the kids are testing and sorting the dried out markers and the usable markers.

The dried out markers are being sorted into color-coded bins.

Finally they put 3 or 4 markers in each baby food jar filled with water to soak out the color.

Excellent!

2nd Grade - Mood Masks

For this project the second graders really got in touch with their feelings.  We talked about color and emotions and what emotions look like.  Then they created a "Mood Mask" collage out of construction paper that depicts a feeling of their choice.  The second graders did such a fantastic job with this project I could have included a picture of each one of them in this post!  

2nd Grade - Henna Hands

Second graders learned about line and Indian culture with this project.  We studied traditional henna designs and symbols and came up with a design of our own on our traced hands.  Each design included symbols that helped explain something about each student, what they liked to do or something else that described them.  Cutting out the hands was tough but the 2nd graders did a great job.  Take a look!

Special thanks to the awesome thomaselementaryart.blogspot.com for the inspiration.