Art History Chairs

While my amazing kiddos are working on some wonderful new artwork for this year, I thought I would share some of their creations from last year that I did not get a chance to post!

Before the summer holidays we discovered all of these old classroom chairs underneath the steps inside our school building. They weren't being used, so I thought it would be a great opportunity for an art project! 

My PYP 5 class started this project by picking out a famous artist's name from a jar. When the artist's name was chosen, the students did a research activity on the library computers to find information about the artist and investigate their style of work.

The students used this information as inspiration for a chair design in their classroom sketchbooks. Once the design was drawn and colors planned, the students applied their ideas by drawing on the chairs.  

Their final chairs turned out wonderful and the kids had so much fun with this! The chairs are now displayed through out the school and the students are still talking about the artist they researched last year! It was a successful project and one they will always remember.