I had the privilege of being the R&L Fusion Cheer coach this basketball season for the Lambert and Richey public schools in Montana. These two schools co-op for athletics because the high schools numbers are quite small. I had a wonderful time teaching the seven cheerleaders some new cheers and stunts! Now that the basketball season is over I have more down time to devote to my blog. Yessssss! So I though I would start with some unique winter silhouette art projects! I got this idea from a post on pinterest! (I will try to find the link and post it soon) First, I had the kids create the background swirls with a crayons. Next, They traced over their crayon patterns with watercolor. We used a cool color palate to make it feel more wintery. As the watercolor background was drying, I had the kids create the silhouette from half of a sheet of black construction paper. I had the kids draw a wavy line first with white crayon or colored pencil. This is bottom of the black silhouette. Then they each added trees and snowmen on top of the wavy line. Cutting out the complete silhouette was the most difficult part. They had a hard time cutting closely around each tree and snowman. For this age group I would recommend cutting out the wavy line first. Then cutting out separate snowmen and tree shapes and gluing separately. This was a fun project that turned out great! It also supported our study of a winter weather unit. I hope you enjoy!
