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)

Dutch December skyline

The Dutch website juf Lisette has a lesson we do every year: the December skyline! 5 December is the day Sinterklaas visits all Dutch children to give them presents. You can read more about Sinterklaas and his Petes in the category Typical Dutch.

What do you need?

1. construction paper in dark blue, yellow and black
2. paperclips
3. scissors
4. cutting knife
5. cutting blade
6. glue

What should you do?

Draw the skyline of a street on the black paper. Add a tree if you want to, or draw a Pete near the chimney.

Put the black sheet on the yellow one and attach them to each other with four paperclips. Cut out the skyline; you'll cut two sheets at the same time. When ready, remove the paperclips and cut some windows out of the black sheet.

Cut a moon out of the rest of the yellow sheet.
Stick the black and yellow skyline together and slide the black sheet one millimeter so you see the yellow edges.
Look to the position of the moon: the yellow edges are there where the moon shines.
Stick the moon on the blue sheet and stick the skyline below. 

Autumn trees near the water

What do you need?

1. light blue drawing paper A4
2. oilpastel crayons
3. tempera paint in autumn colours
4. brushes

What should you do?

1. Fold the paper in half. Above the fold is the country, below is the water. 
2. Draw on the upper side with oilpastels some trees without leaves in the grass and color them firmly. 
3. Draw below the fold the reflection of these trees. Color them less thick.
4. Make leaves on the trees at the upper side by tamponing warm colors tempera paint with a brush. Don't mix up the colors but use two colors on the same time. 
5. Fold the sheet when the paint is still wet to get the reflection on the lower side of the sheet. Press gently but do not rub!

Works of art made by students of grade 4.