Happy new year

What do you need? 

• white drawing sheet 
• blue liquid water color paint 
• brush
• crayons
• black construction paper
• leftovers of yellow and orange paper
• yellow chalk pastel

What should you do? 

1. Draw fireworks with crayons on a white sheet. 
2. Paint the whole sheet with blue liquid water color paint. 
3. Let dry.
4. Cut a skyline out of half a sheet of black paper. 
5. Paste the skyline on the blue sheet. 
6. Cut windows from yellow or orange paper.
7. Draw a yellow chalk line on the roofs and smudge it.   
   

Works of art made by students of grade 3, 4 and 5.

Christmas carolers

What do you need? 

1. green construction paper A2 size
2. scissors and glue
3. leftovers paper or Christmas scrapbook paper
4. fine markers in black and silver

Before:
Christmas carolers are individuals or groups who sing traditional holiday songs, known as carols, during the Christmas season, often traveling from house to house or performing in public spaces.

What should you do? 

1. Cut the parts of the singers: head with the nose up and open mouth, thin arms and legs, dress or suit and black shoes or boots.
2. Cut a music book and fold it. 
3. Draw the title on it: Christmas Carols.
4. Draw some staves with musical notes.
5. Glue the parts on the large green sheet. Paste three-dimensional if possible: paste the dress with folds; arms come out of sleeves holding the 3D pasted music book. 
6. Draw nostrils with a black marker and shoe laces with the silver one.
7. Make a large group work of these Christmas carolers!

Works of art made by students of grade 6. 

Silver and white Xmas tree

What do you need?

• green construction paper
• silver marker
• white pencil

What should you do?

1. Draw the trunk of a tree in the middle of the sheet, starting at the bottom and ending about 2 inches from the top. 
2. Color the trunk with silver marker. 
3. Draw lines from the trunk to the right and left. Don't use a ruler! The lines become shorter to create a triangle.  
4. Draw Xmas decorations on the branches with a white pencil. 

Works of art made by students of grade 6. 

Christmas Angels

What do you need?

• black construction paper
• pencils in yellow, gold, silver and white

What should you do?

1. Draw some Christmas angels flying in a starry sky. 
2. You may only use gold, silver, yellow and white pencils to color them. 
3. Draw patterns in their dresses.  
4. Finish the work with a frame: a simple straight line, a dot pattern or wavy line.

Works of art made by students of grade 4.

Gingerbread man printing lesson

What do you need?

• two pieces of linoleum 10 x 10 cm
• lino knife
• block printing ink
• flat piece of plexiglass
• linoleum roller
• white sheets
• lino press
• scissors, glue
• colored paper

What should you do?

1. Draw a gingerbread cookie on both pieces of linoleum. 
2. Cut away the outlines of the first linoleum.
3. Cut away the background of the second one. 
4. Print in one or two (Christmas) colors.
5. Paste your prints on colored paper.

Works of art are made by students of grade 4. 

Christmas trees in the snow

What do you need?

• large drawing sheets 
• liquid watercolor green and red 
• oilpastel crayons 
• brushes
  

What should you do ?

• Draw a wavy line, the ground. 
• Draw several christmas trees. Simple triangles are okay. 
• Do not draw all the trees next to each other, but let them overlap. 
• Decorate the trees with balls and garlands.
• Draw presents under the trees. 
• Color with oil pastels, but leave the ground white. 
• Use white oilpastel for snowflakes.
• Paint with liquid watercolor, the ground has to stay white.

Works of art made by students of grade 1.

Elements of art: color, shape, space.

Light in the darkness

Before:
Print a lantern for each student. 

What do you need? 

• drawing sheet 
• tempera paint
• brush
• pattern of a lantern
• scissors and glue

What should you do?

1. Paint a light yellow circle in the middle of the drawing sheet.  
2. Paint around it with colors that become progressively darker: dark yellow, orange, red, dark red.
   
3. Paint the last circles in blue and dark gray and fill the sheet. Let dry 
   
4. Cut the lantern and paste it on the painted sheet. 

Elements of art: color, nuance. 
Works of art made by students of grade 3.