Second Grade Clay Owls

Second grade students have been learning about color families in art.  We had already learned about warm (red, yellow, orange) and cool (blue, green, purple) colors and now it is time to learn about neutral colors.  The neutral colors are browns, blacks, grays, and whites.  These colors are not found on the color wheel.  The second graders has already been curious about theses colors because they didn't see them on the color wheel.  That lead into our discussion of owls and why they were neutral colored.  We create our owls of out clay, glazed them and then made nests for them.

Group shot of a few owls in their nests

Second graders learned about neutral colors while making their owls.

They reviewed neutral colors by making nests for their owls

Pottery Patterns

Second grade students are studying Native Americans.  One Native American craft that kids love is pottery! We are creating pottery designs using oil pastels.  Students are challenged to create patterns on their pottery drawings like that of Native Americans; using color, lines, and shapes.