Koi fish art project

@rujet2 1 year ago “The legend of the koi fish says, that if the koi fish swims up the waterfall, it will one day become a dragon”. Koi fish board. #grade4 /5 #paperkoi #koi #koifishpond #classroomboards

I love doing Koi Watercolor paintings! The blue and orange look so great together and there is no way for the student to feel unsuccessful - there is no right or wrong way to paint the fish! I had seen several versions of this project on Pinterest but couldn't find the pattern for the fish so I made my own. Here is a Jpeg version and the instructions to make them. Mine are printed on 8.5 X 11" paper. I traced and cut out the shapes using watercolor paper. I folded the front of the fish in…

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Koi Fish Print a5

The idea for this class came from the fact that these girls are nearing the end of the school year and they're doing a lot of testing and finals and such. So I wanted a project that could be a sort of Art Therapy relaxation experience. Remember when you were little and you'd scribble all over the paper and then use different colors to fill in the spaces? That's what we did today...but with a twist. We began by watching this wonderful video on the 7 Elements of Art. This video is excellent…

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Seventh grade students spend lots of time studying ancient China and Japan in history class. In the art room, we celebrate these rich cultures through the creation of watercolor koi fish paintings. Combing traditional Asian art, and the Hawaiian flair of artist Sherri Reeves, students drew several koi fish across their rectangular sheet of paper. (This is large! Apx 22x11" inches) Once the have drawn their fish they added sketches of pond life and traced over the entire image in crayon…

The idea for this class came from the fact that these girls are nearing the end of the school year and they're doing a lot of testing and finals and such. So I wanted a project that could be a sort of Art Therapy relaxation experience. Remember when you were little and you'd scribble all over the paper and then use different colors to fill in the spaces? That's what we did today...but with a twist. We began by watching this wonderful video on the 7 Elements of Art. This video is excellent…