3rd Grade stained glass

Happy 2018!

We've been very busy in the art room this year!  I'll be putting recent works in a few new posts!

We did a stained glass unit with 3rd grade where we learned about the process of creating stained glass and designed our own window using rotating symmetry.  We used transparency sheets and sharpies.  After drawing the design on paper, I taped the plastic sheets on top and they traced their lines carefully with black sharpies (acting as the lead of the window).  I had them flip their sheet over to the back to color the shapes in, still using the white paper so they could more easily see their colors.  Flipping the sheets prevented the black from running into the colors so the works turned out nice and clean!

They were so focused and excited about these windows - and that's been a challenge this year!

Early finishers took a look at rose windows' radial symmetry and created a symmetrically colored rose window as I noticed a few students that didn't quite translate the rotating symmetry to the color part of the lesson.  I think the next time I do this project, I may have them do the colored rose window first before adding color to their own windows...