Bridger School Artists: Kinder & 1st Grade

May 2018

Kindergarten and First graders used foreground, middleground, and background in their pop-up art.

April 2018

Kindergarten and First graders tried their hand at paper weaving and pattern.

April 2018

First graders used their math vocabulary and shading skills to create strangely balanced still lifes.

April 2018

Kindergarten used their knowledge of warm and cool colors to create fish habitats with several media.

March 2018

First graders used proportion and

creative backgrounds to make full body self-portraits.

March 2018

Kindergarten learned about symmetry through their colorful butterflies.

March 2018

First graders learned about symmetry through their creative insects.

February 2018

Kindergarten and first graders looked at the paintings of Alma Woodsey Thomas
then created their own colorful paintings with dashes of paint.

January 2018

Kindergarten and first graders looked at the work of John Nieto whose art is inspired by his Hispanic and American Indian ancestry. They then created their own colorful animals with oil pastel and paint.

December 2017

Kindergarten and first graders looked at the work of Paul Klee
and created their own people out of a variety of shapes.

December 2017

Kindergarten and first graders looked at photographs of owls to create their colorful work.

November 2017

Kindergarten and first graders talked about Alphabet, 1959, by Jasper Johns
then used oil pastel and watercolor to create colorful alphabets.

October 2017

Kindergarten and first graders explored line, shape, and pattern in paper and crayons.

May 2016

Kindergarten and first graders created architecture in three-dimensional form.

Their small neighborhoods took many creative turns.

May 2016
Kindergarten and first graders looked at the paintings of architecture by Paul Klee. They used cardboard to print lines and later used watercolor paint to bring their work to life. Such amazing creativity and individuality!

May 2016

1st and 2nd graders were covering two and three-dimensional shapes in math class,
so it was the perfect time to create form with pastel and colored paper in art class.

May 2016

Kindergarten and First grade students were inspired by stained glass windows of the

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Chartres, in making their own work.

April 2016

Kindergarten and First grade students looked at circles, spirals,
and radial symmetry in nature to create these amazing works.

March 2016

Kindergarten students had a terrific time pinching, forming, and
adding texture and color to make these pinch pots.

March 2016

Kindergarten combined lines and shapes through cutting, pasting, printing, and overlapping vibrant circles.

February 2016

Kindergarten students explored pattern and space through paper sculpture.

February 2016

1st grade students thought in three-dimensions to create these mobile sculptures.

February 2016

Kinder and 1st grade students cut, arranged and glued cardboard shapes into abstract and realistic sculptures.

January 2016

1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders created these wall hangings with the techniques of slab rolling, coils, stamped textures, and glaze.

December 2015

Kinder and 1st graders created winter landscapes with near, far,

and farther away trees.

November 2015

1st, 2nd & 3rd graders created birch tree piecers with watercolor, salt, and drawing.

November 2015

1st, 2nd & 3rd graders created work inspired by the molas of the San Blas Islands.

October 2015

Kinder & 1st graders explored the color wheel and tints and shades through paint.

September 2015

1st, 2nd & 3rd graders created chalk drawings inspired by cave art from around the world.

May 2015

1st grade Art was inspired by Chinese scroll paintings with pandas and bamboo.

Kindergarten Art was inspired by Chinese and Japanese scroll paintings

with cherry blossom branches.

1st and 2nd graders were inspired by The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. They focused in on the idea of how the main character made a dot with dots and a dot without dots.

April 2015

First Grade Collagraphs

Kindergarten Collagraphs

April 2015

1st graders created architecture designs inspired by Paul Klee.

Castle and Sun by Paul Klee

March 2015

1st graders created sculptures inspired by Watts Towers.

Bridger participated in National Read Across America and the amazing books of Dr. Suess. We were also inspired by his art!

February, 2015

Kindergartners were inspired by Wayne Thiebaud's painting of a gumball machines. They made excellent combination of shapes, colors, and shadows.

February, 2015

First graders used clay to create a personal hand sculpture.

January, 2015

Kindergartners and First graders looked at how light on one side of an object creates values of light, medium, and dark on snow people.

December, 2014

After learning about Wilson Bentley, the first person to photograph snowflakes, Kindergarten and First graders created their own snowflake designs.

November, 2014

First grade landscapes were

inspired by Claude Monet.

November, 2014

Kindergarten fall tree paintings

were inspired by Claude Monet.

November, 2014

Kindergarten paintings were inspired by

Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night.

October, 2014

Kindergarten used horizontal lines,

vertical lines, and primary colors

in the style of Piet Mondrian.

October, 2014

First Grade painted horizontal designs in watercolors, then cut and spaced

them with vertical lines.

October, 2014

Kindergarten and First Grade explored line,

shape, and value with chalk pastels.

September, 2014

First Grade Self-Portraits with Proportion

September, 2014

Kindergarten portraits with

colorful backgrounds.

A look back...

Here are a few photos of artwork by 1st and 2nd graders

from 2012-2014.

Students explored the element of line by creating line variety with black markers and watercolor. Students were able to describe the lines with words like zig-zag, bumpy, and wavy.