Art: 1st Grade Photography

It's a great day to teach the kids photography today.

 

I decided we need to do Art class outside for a change. The weather was good and it's a wonderful opportunity to observe different elements, shapes, colors, and textures in our surroundings.

 

Equipped with our basic point and shoot camera and a list of items to take pictures of, we were ready. I made my 1st grader read each item on the list (for reading practice). My 2 kids took turns taking pictures of the different items.

 

One item was something with a straight line.

 

 

  Another was something red.

 

 

Our list had something orange...

 

 

and something circle.

 

 

I showed them the all the pictures they took when we were done. I was pretty amazed with the photos they took. I think this is a great activity to do with kids- whether your homeschooling or not!

Art: Pizza Collage

Wednesdays is art day in our homeschool for my 1st grader and pre-school kid. We made pizza collages. We started by tracing diner plates for our pizzas and then we cut up the toppings using different colored paper. The kids enjoyed decorating their pizzas.

Before the craft, we read the story "Party!" by Marianne Mcknight. I had my first grader read this story aloud.

The pizza collage craft idea came from this Art teacher's blog. She has some awesome ideas.