Square 1 Art* Third Grade: Mr Seahorse Collage

Third grade students begin their first art project. Students first learned about primary, secondary and intermediate colors. Students used bubble wrap to mix yellow and red paint directly on their papers. This made orange and all the intermediate colors in between like yellow-orange and red-orange.

Next students paper the background, the ocean. Mixing blue and white on their papers and using plastic forks to make wave lines.

Students practiced in their sketchbooks and then drew seahorses on the back of their bubble wrap painted papers and cut them out to glue on the ocean background. Then sharpie markers were used to add implied lines of texture on the seahorses. Scraps of the bubble wrap paper were used to make sand and then paint was used for seaweed and coral.

4-5 classes

*pictures to come*