Ohm'art

I know a lot of art teachers stay away from holiday-related art- esp Halloween since some parents feel its the devil’s holiday bla bla bla.

That’s fine but with the younger grades, its fun to get caught up in all the holiday everything. I’m not giving my students color by number halloween pages, relax! It brings me back to my own days as kid, its fun! These kindergartners are designing AND cutting out their ghosts- we’re doing collage people, and they are cuter than cute. We talked about how to show emotion- sad, happy, even confused (see that squiggley mouth?). 

Anyway, when you have 26 kindergartners and 30 minutes, something like this is simple enough but still exciting since we used metallic crayons on black paper- even if half the class is yelling “BOO!” at one another the entire time.

I might have even turned to my playlist.com account and played my Halloween music including The Adams Family theme, Monster Mash, Ghostbusters, and Night on Bald Mountain. There’s nothing like a class of kindergartners snapping their fingers to The Adams Family and dancing in their chairs as they work on art.