The 1st graders looked at the art of Stuart Davis and read some of the words, letters and numbers in his artwork. They analyzed his pictures and tried to figure out why he might have included text in his art. I teach about him every year and the kids create artwork with letters and numbers. You can see the ones we made last year at with this blog post.
This year the students wrote words in an artistic way and colored them in. Then, they cut the words out and glued them on to a background with cut paper shapes. The students used decorative edged scissors like these Fiskars paper edgers
