Every other year I work with the PTO (parent teacher organization) to do a school-wide fundraiser along with the company Square 1 Art. If you're not familiar with the company, click the link HeRe
They basically put your students work on all different types of objects and a portion of the money comes back to the school. Two years ago I had the students create different animals, fishes, birds, cats, etc, and then fill them in with different patterns. This year I had about 3 weeks to get over 600 forms completed, so I decided to create painted landscapes with everyone. At first I had a few classes use tissue paper to create a collage and then add a marker landscape over it, but there was too much room for error and I had to be a drill sergeant to make sure the kiddo's really glued the tissue paper flat. Here are a few of the tissue paper samples. These are the brighter ones, unfortunately some of them ended up coming out really dark
