Kenya Animals

The most famous Kenya animals are known as "The Big 5"

5th graders used markers, oil pastels and watercolors to create their animals.

Lion

Rhinoceros

Leopard

Elephant

Buffalo

4th graders working on Native American art projects!

Designing a blanket pattern showing geometric shapes.

Creating what a buffalo hide design would look like.

Making a paper mask, showing symmetry.

Designing masks.

Making a totem pole.

Making roosters in a painted collage style!

Students practiced the technique of collage.

Second graders used overlapping, layering and attention to detail
to create colorful feathers.

5th graders being very creative!

Turning an old CD into a Dolphin!

Into a Sea Turtle!

 Into a Whale!

Ocean Life

5th graders taking used CD's and creating something that lives in the ocean!

A jellyfish evolving....

Collaborating with one another.

Printmaking

Second graders making leaf prints on Crazy Hair Day!

Open House at Ivy Hill

Something to smile about.

Parents enjoyed visiting the art room.

Work inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Students designed shoes with patterns.

4th graders created shields for music show, Joust!

International Day of Peace, September 21, 2011

Pinwheels for Peace at Ivy Hill School.

 Students celebrate their diversity and feelings about peace.

Cub Scout Troop #468 designed and painted a "Peace Pole"
that has been dedicated to Ivy Hill School. May Peace Prevail on Earth
is painted on the pole in different languages!

Students plant their pinwheels in front of their school.

Celebrating International Day of Peace!

Mrs. Taylor's 3rd grade made pinwheels for peace
to help celebrate International Day of Peace on September 21st.

Designing Shirts

Second graders are making patterns using oil pastels. 

Kindergartners created frog paintings!

Kindergartners used black marker to outline their frogs.

Students had fun exploring and discovering new colors using watercolors.

Y-Me Race

We are Ivy Hill!

A beautiful Mother's Day!

Arlington Heights Memorial Library Art Show

                         

                      Artwork displayed for the month of May!

Art Institute Field Trip - 4th grade

After a five-year absence, the Art Institute welcomed the return
of Marc Chagall's American Windows

Ivy Hill students took a docent-led tour called Clues From the Past.

The 2011 Cultural Arts Fair "Together We Can..."

Celebrating the Arts!

Kindergartners making alligators!

Students traced, cut and glued geometric shapes to create alligators!

Inspired by Van Gogh!

4th graders painting sunflowers mixing analogous colors

Analogous colors are next to one another on the color wheel

Students using tempera paints

How Do I See Me?

Third graders creating self-portraits

Sketching portraits in pencil

Adding chalk pastels for color

Next week details and background will be added