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I came across this idea on Artprojectsforkids.org. We began by discussing what a symbol is- an image that represents an idea. We brainstormed a list of winter symbols before students began by asymmetrically dividing their papers. They drew one winter symbol in each box, colored with crayon and painted the backgrounds.
This is a fun one day halloweenish project. Students began by using a black crayon to draw a silhouette of trees and night creatures such as spiders, bats and owls. They then used watercolor paint to create a wax resist by painting a large yellow circle in the center of the paper as a moon and a purple and blue sky around it.
3rd graders made fall landscape wax resist paintings. We reviewed vocabulary and students had to include a horizon line, foreground, middleground and background in their paintings. They used crayon to add textures and painted the rest of their drawings with watercolors. They had to show atmospheric perspective by drawing objects in the distance smaller than objects in the foreground.
