Japanese Paper Fish

The fifth grades learned about the Japanese celebration of Children's Day, where parents celebrate their children by flying fish shaped windsocks outside their homes. The students designed a fish after learning about all the parts and created a scale pattern for the body. After transferring their fish to white paper they had to make two copies because they were eventually going to stuff and staple it to make it look like it was full of wind. For color, they learned about the crayon resist technique when used with watercolors. On one side of their fish they had to use warm colors for the details and cool watercolors to paint the rest of it and do the opposite color scheme on the back side. Their fish were then stuffed, stapled and hung.

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Name Transformations

For the first mini drawing project, students were asked to write their first names in bubble or block letters and transform them into objects that reflect their unique personalities. Here are some amazing examples!!

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