Third Grade Outer Space

Today third grade ventured into the galaxies with their art.  First we talked about how to make a tint, by adding white to any color. Using 3 tints that students mixed, they pounced distant stars on black paper.  Then they received their little textured papers from last week. Each student made 4 papers by sliding texture combs through tempera paint. These were creatively cut into stars, suns, comets, planets, moons, shooting stars,   and even earth. Here are a few closeups of some of their celestial creations. Now all that is left is to create the astronaut........