Deep Blue Sea Mural - Day 3

The glue dried on our jellyfish and we were ready to add the tentacles with tissue paper and ribbon.  The 6th graders did a great job with their creations!  I like the color variety in the jellyfish.

The 4th graders used construction paper to create some aquatic plants to glue down on our mural.  Here are some students working hard:

Deep Blue Sea Mural - Day 2

I thought my 6th graders would enjoy creating some 3-D jellyfish for our underwater mural project.  I actually got this idea from http://onecrayolashort.blogspot.com/.  I always love to make paper mache projects with balloons!  Well, let's just say, I love the results, but maybe not so much the actual "making" part of the project :)  I allowed the students to use multi-colored tissue paper, to give a little contrast between each jellyfish.  I think the pink jellyfish from One Crayola Short looked great, but I like to give students a choice of colors for their projects.  These will be the tops of our jellyfish once they dry...

 

Third graders worked on creating schools of fish using styrofoam stamps.  I instructed them to draw their own fish on their piece of styrofoam, cut it out, and use 1-2 colors of tempera paint to stamp their fish repeatedly on their paper.  

Deep Blue Sea Mural - Day 1

We are in the process of creating a school-wide mural project depicting the deep blue sea.  On day 1, students had the opportunity to watch a video titled, Exploring Tropical Oceans created here at our very own Missouri Botanical Gardens.  Here are the Kindergartners working on depicting plant life in the ocean using oil pastels and chalk pastels:

 

The 1st Graders used plastic soda bottles to transform into 3-D fish.  I had the fish bodies prepared for them before class.  The labels had to be removed, the bottom of the soda bottle cut off, the tail stapled and then shaped by cutting the sides of the tail inward.  The students used sharpie markers to add scales, designs, patterns, and eyes to their fish.  I had them come up to the sink, one at a time, to choose two colors of paint to pour into the mouth of the fish and then we tapped it on the side of the sink to allow the colors to mix.  I think they turned out great!