Turkey Puppets (Kindergarten)

Kindergarten practiced cutting and gluing to create these adorable turkey puppets in time for Thanksgiving! They loved showing these off and I think they turned out so adorable. 

Goofy Face Pumpkins (Kindergarten)

Kindergarten practiced cutting and gluing while making pumpkins with funny faces! Students drew and cut out their own pumpkins, decorated them with lines and mouths, and were then given eyes and teeth to glue on to finish their creations.

1st Grade & Kindergarten Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day from the GNS Art room!

In honor of Valentine's Day, the 1st graders and Kindergarteners at GNS made Valentines for someone or something special in their lives! The results were adorable, and made everyone smile.

They got large pink, purple, or red hearts and then used markers, crayons, and their imaginations to create cards, characters, or drawings. Many students requested a second heart and some cut out additional hearts or shapes or mounted their hearts on white or colored backgrounds. 

It was a very simple assignment, but we took the opportunity to review symmetry, as all of the heart shapes were perfectly symmetrical. Studnets also learned how to cut a heart of their own by tracing a teardrop shape with the fold at the center to create a heart when it was unfolded. Symmetry appears in all geometric and some organic shapes and we discussed this before students were able to decorate their hearts.

Symmetry - The quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis. Or "it's the same on both sides, like a mirror!".