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Pet store fish 🐠 #EduSky #art #arted

A collection of student drawings of fish in plastic bags from a pet store

This time of year calls for some Victor Nunes-inspired found object drawings! #EduSky #art #foundobjects

A variety of found objects turned into pictures using whiteboards and dry erase markers

🌸🍃🍁❄️ Our ‘Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know’ display #EduSky #art #artdisplay

Tree branch featuring student work that depicts seasonal changes

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In preparation of World Oceans Day, some paper quilled ocean scenes #worldoceansday #paperquilling #art

Paper quilled ocean scenes in shades of blues with colourful whale tails

Reading ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a River’ & sharing our personal connections to the land #EduSky #art #artprojects

Colourful landscape drawings inside vintage frames

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Grade 2 works inspired by the book ‘Each Kindness’ #EduSky #art

Ripple paintings with real stones attached to paper

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Gr. 3s have been designing mosque lanterns for our upcoming ‘Affirming Muslim Identities’ school event. Ss drew designs on grid paper & then transferred them to acetate with sharpies. They will be lit with tea lights for the event 🌙✨ #EduSky #Ramadan #art

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy International Women’s Day! Celebrating all of the incredible women author/illustrators whose creativity & storytelling inspire so much of our work in the art room ✨ #Internationalwomensday #kidlit #EduSky

A variety of student artwork and the books that inspired them

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Beautiful collaborative mark-making in Kindergarten to brighten our day #EduSky #art #kindergarten

A brightly coloured abstract painting being created by several students at once

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Reading our new art room book ‘The Story of Turtle Island’ #EduSky #art

Colourful painted turtle shell artworks with book cover

Display of turtle paintings with watery background

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our winter trees in Kindergarten inspired by ‘After the Snowfall’ #EduSky #art

Brightly painted winter trees with snow and night sky backgrounds

Beautiful saturated colour of our painted papers in Kindergarten, ready to be turned into winter trees inspired by ’After the Snowfall’ #EduSky #art

Brightly coloured painted papers made with paint sticks & dot markers

❤️ #caturday #catsofbluesky #cats

Orange cat sleeping with stretched out paws

❄️✨ #EduSky #art #arteducation

Hand drawn snowflakes with bleeding tissue paper backgrounds in cool colours

Our Ruth Asawa-inspired sculptures in progress #EduSky #art #ruthasawa

Hand drawn line sculptures made with fine tip pens inspired by Asawa’s wire sculptures

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our interior sunset views inspired by ‘A Day So Gray’ #EduSky #art #arted

Oil pastel sunsets with interior window views

We made it! Wishing you some well-deserved rest ahead ❄️❤️ #EduSky #arteducation #artprojects

Mixed media polar bears on colourful backgrounds

Kristin Taylor @mstaylor-art.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Grade 2 line exploration continues with our abstract watercolour compositions using curvilinear lines #EduSky #art #abstract

A variety of abstract paintings on paper rounds using watercolours

Trying out some continuous line drawing in Gr. 1 inspired by the book ‘Follow the Line’…we didn’t lift our hands up for the entire drawing, tricky but fun! #art #artclass #EduSky

Continuous line drawings using dry erase markers on whiteboards

We’ve been reading ‘My Street Remembers’ and creating abstract maps in Grade 2. Ss used sharpies & transparency sheets to trace sections of our Flemingdon Park map and then created abstract collages to go underneath #abstractart #EduSky

Colourful multi-layered abstract maps, using colour, shape and line

…in progress 🌺 #EduSky