International Fair Art Projects

Italy

This was the project done by my third graders. After a lesson about Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa, each student designed and painted one square in order for us to put together this abstract, Pop-Art inspired version of the masterpiece. They loved seeing how the pieces of the ¨puzzle¨ came together in the end. 

Brazil

After finding out that the first graders were going to work with Brazil, I knew I wanted to do something related to the Carnival with them. I thought that making an eye mask would be a good way for my students to use their creativity in order to design and decorate their own. They were given a template of an eye mask which they had to trace onto thick paper and cut out on their own, so they practically did them from scratch!

Egypt

The fifth graders studied Egypt and hieroglyphs are an awesome way to learn about both language and art. After a lesson on the topic, students were given a handout in order to practice drawing ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in their sketchbooks. They were called one by one in order to transfer each previously drawn hieroglyph onto the thick brown background paper and then trace with black tempera paint. 

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