Halloween Monster Faces

Middle School -

This is the first Halloween project we've done this year: Monster Faces!

Kids start with folding a piece of card stock in half and cutting out a mouth - this can be in any style desired, with or without teeth. By unfolding the card stock and pushing the mouth part forward, kids then draw a face around it to create their monster(s).

Any Halloween / horror character was allowed.

 

American Gothic Halloween Parody

High School - Art I

For the Halloween season, I had the kids do a parody of American Gothic, Halloweens style.

This is the one time during the year where they are allowed to be as gory or disgusting or bloody as they want - surprisingly, most kids chose to be relatively tame, which is actually nice.
They could also pick a different theme if Halloween was not their thing.

We had pictures of the painting American Gothic by Grant Wood, as well as various examples of parodies I found on the net for inspiration.