African Landscapes

These collage/paintings were made by my first graders. I got the idea for the landscape from Painted Paper. She taught her students about Georgia O'Keefe. I taught my students about African savannahs and zebra and elephant habitats. We used homemade rubber band paint brushes to paint the elephant and grass textures. That was fun for everyone.

Donors Choose Projects

The top two are first grade. They learned how to sew straight stitches and then how to sew on beads. The pillows are by third graders. They learned cross stitches, satin stitches, chain stitches and straight stitches. They also sewed on beads and are finishing up on a sewing machine. Second and fourth grades wove on card board looms. They could turn their weavings into bookmarks, small blankets, bugs, or figures. These projects were very well liked and some children even made 2 projects; one to take home and one for class.
Thank you Donors Choose Award for providing the materials for these projects!