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This was an art project I did with my bilingual 4th grade class. We had been studying communities and they had to paint a cityscape but we did it with a twist. First, the students cut pieces of masking tape and taped them on a paper. Each piece of tape had a different size.
Then, each student chose a color to paint their paper or rather city sky. The following class when the paint had dried, we peeled off the tape. It's best of you peel off the tape from top to bottom so the paint doesn't come off, too.
So, now you have white rectangles of different sizes with a painted background.
Students filled in the rectangles with windows and doors to make the city buildings. They also added airplanes, antennas and other details to their cities. Last, we glued their cities onto black creative paper for a more dramatic effect.
At the end, you can have your students describe their cities to their friends, either in pairs or to the whole class.
I love color and thought the final results looked amazing. The kids were pretty proud as well.
We're saving the paintings for an art show at their school.




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