Happy new year!

What do you need?

1. white drawing sheet 
2. water paint color
3. brushes
4. liquid water color paint
5. crayons

What should you do?

1. Draw some Dutch canal houses. 
2. Color them with water color paint. 
3. Use crayons to draw fireworks. 
4. Paint the sky dark blue with liquid water color leaving the edges white. 

Works of art are made by students of grade 6.

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. 

Colorful Christmas trees

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What do you need?

• two white drawing sheets A4 size
• water color paint
• brushes
• jar with water
• tissue paper
• scissors and glue
• ruler
• pencil
• gold or silver marker
• white correction marker
• glitter

What should you do?

1. Paint a background on the first white sheet with water color paint. Use different colors and let them blend into each other. Use plenty of water for nice bright colors.
2. Choose three colors tissue paper. Fold the sheets several times and cut triangles. 
3. Wet the second white sheet with a brush. 
4. Place the triangles on it and leave it to dry. 
5. Cut long triangles. You may use the schedule. Cut a piece from the bottom of the triangles if you want trees of various heights. Cut some smaller triangles from the left overs if you want more trees.
6. Paste the triangles with overlap on the colored background. 
7. Outline with silver or gold marker and draw a simple branche stucture.
8. Draw snowflakes with a white marker or use chips from the hole punch. 
9. Sprinkle some glitter on the forest floor.
10. Paste the artwork on a colored background.

Works of art made by students of grade 7. 

Tea light holder of paper, ink and oil!

These beautiful colored light holders are made of paper, ink and salad oil! 

What do  you need?

1. sketch paper
2. pattern (ask me by mail)
3. liquid watercolor paint
4. great brush
5. scissors
6. strong glue
7. salad oil
8. paper towels
9. little glass jar
10. tea light

What should you do?

1. Print the pattern copy it on scetch paper. 
2. Wet the paper and sprinkle with a big brush liquid water color on it. The drops will flow in the water. Fill the whole sheet with color. 
3. Let dry. 
4. Pour some salad oil on a plate. Paint the paper with oil using a big brush. 
5. Put the oily sheet between paper towels and let dry for one day.
6. Cut out the pattern. 
7. Fold the edges and stick the tea light holder together with strong glue.

Made by students of grade 6. 

Scratch a Christmas ball

What do you need?

1. drawing sheet
2. oil pastels or crayons
3. black tempera paint 
4. brush
5. aluminium foil 
6. ribbon
7. toothpick or skewer

What should you do?

1. Color the sheet with crayons. 
2. Paint it over with black tempera paint and let dry. 
3. Scratch with a toothpick a Christmas ball and fill it with patterns. 
4. Cut a small piece of aluminium foil and paste it on the ball with a folded ribbon under it. 

Works of art made by students of grade 6.

Elements of art: line (pattern)

3D winter or Christmas scene

made by students of grade 5/6

You need: 

1. white cardboard 21 by 21 cm
2. colored glace paper 14,5 by 14,5 cm
3. cutting knife 
4. cutting mat
5. glue

Too difficult or not enough time? Skip step 1 and 2. 

Step 1
Draw a square at 2 cm from the edges, this is the outside of the frame. 

Step 2
Draw in this square another square at 3 cm of the edges: this is the front of the frame.  

Step 3
Draw in the 15 by 15 cm square a simple winter or Christmas scene.  Make the lines 1 cm wide and make sure they are on 4 sides attached to the 1 cm wide frame. See pattern below. 

Step 4
Color the parts you have to cut out grey.  

Step 5
Cut out the grey parts. 

Step 6
Cut the corners diagonally, see pattern. 

Step 7
Fold the lines of the 15 by 15 square. 

Step 8
Stick the corners.

Step 9

Stick the glace paper in the frame. 

Elements of art: line, form, space.

 

We wish you a merry Xmas

You need:

1. green construction paper, 20 by 20 cm
2. white tempera paint
3. white pencil
4. fine markers in white and black
5. colored markers

Draw staves on the sheet using a white pencil. Make fingerprints for the snowmen: use the tip of your finger for the head, use your thumb for the body. Wait till the paint has dried. Use a black fine marker to draw brooms, branches=arms, stones=eyes+mouth. Draw the carrot = nose with orange marker and draw caps of hats on some of the snowmen.
Finally, draw the text of We wish you a merry Xmas (or another Christmas song) under the staves. 


Source: 50 Xmas things to make and do, Usborne

Christmas carpet

Made by a student of grade 6

You need:

1. green, red or black construction paper  25 by 25 cm
2. ruler
3. pencil
4. gold or silver marker
5. red or green marker

Students divide their sheet with ruler and pencil in 25 squares from 5 by 5 cm. In each square they draw a Christmas figure: tree, candy, snowman, skates, mitten, sock, candle etc. These figures have to be coloured , just like a checkerboard: alternately the background is gold/silver or the figure is gold/silver.

Xmas angels

Made by students of grade 3

You need:

1. white drawing sheet
2. watercolour paint
3. brushes 
4. black marker
5. glitter 

Outline a saucer on a white sheet and cut it out. Draw an angel. Paint with watercolour paint. Outline with a fine glitter marker. 

Paste the artwork on another circle. 

Dancing Christmas trees

Made by a student of grade 1

You need:

1. white drawing sheet
2. pencil
3. markers
4. chalk pastels

Dancing Christmas trees are Christmas trees who look like them only because of the shape (rectangular) and decorations (balls, garlands and stars)! The trunks are much longer than the  the ordinary trees and because of the curves in them it looks they are dancing.  

Draw with pencil, colour with markers, outline with black marker and colour the background with chalk pastels.

Tea light holder The Style

Made by a student of grade 4

You need:

1. black construction paper  41 by 12 cm 
2. wax paper in red, blue and yellow
3. cutting mat and cutter
4. glue

Tell students about art the movement The Style and two of its most famous contributors Piet Mondriaan and Theo van Doesburg. 

Draw 4 lines with 10 cm between them from bottom to the top of the black sheet. The last strip (1 cm) is the glue strip. 

Draw four squares or rectangles on the black sheet. Then draw lines from about 1 cm wide. Cut the spaces between the lines and paste wax paper behind them. 

Finish the lantern by folding the four lines and pasting it. 

Rudolph with his red nose

All credits for this great lesson and a full step by step instruction on ArtVenturous. I made these cute Rudolphs last year with my grade 1 students.

The Xmas tree isn't green

You need:

1. two drawing sheets A4 size
2. liquid watercolour paint
3. brushes
4. jar with water
5. tissue paper
6. scissors
7. glue
8. pencil
9. gold or silver marker

Paint a background with liquid water colour paint. Use two dark colours and let them blend into each other, leaving some white on the sheet.
Choose three colours of tissue paper. Fold the sheets several times and cut triangles and squares. Take a white sheet and make it wet with a brush and water. Lay the pieces of tissue paper on the wet sheet. If the tissue paper is not wet enough, it won't bleed. If so, make it wet again with a brush with water. Fill the sheet with these tissue paper parts and leave it to dry. Remove the pieces of tissue paper when it is completely dry.

Artwork made by students of grade 4

Fold the tissue coloured sheet and cut triangles in several heights. Paste the trees on the background. Don't paste the trees all at the same height, so you get depth. Cut some smaller triangles from the left overs if you want more trees.
Outline the trees with silver or gold marker and draw a simple branch structure. Draw the trunks with a brown pencil.