Thursday, October 28, 2010

Shadow Puppets

Shadow Puppets

Cardboard/cereal boxes
black paint/markers
scissors
exacto knife
hot glue
wooden skewers

Have students draw and color puppets to be cut out. Teacher cuts out puppets and glues on skewers.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Upcoming Lessons

Stamping with clay
Spider Sculpture

Fall Leaf Resist

This is awesome.

Crayons
Paper
Watercolors
Leaves

Use old crayons, peel off the wrappers. Place leaf under paper, rub with side of peeled crayon. Fill page with rubbings. Paint with water colors.

Wax Resist
Rubbings
How to use a paintbrush

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Leaf Creatures

Collage and Nature Art

Collect leaves and assemble into an animal

OR

Portrait

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Upcoming Lessons

Geometric/Organic Shapes (K1)
Grid drawing (4thgrade)

Crayon Resist/Fall Leaves (K1)

Self-Portrait Animal/Halloween (4thgrade)

Sites I like:
MrsBrownARt
ALifetimeOfColor
ArtFactory
Crayola
CreativeSpotLight

Geometric Shapes: k1Art

Ask students to name shapes. Differentiate between geometric and organic shapes, and 2D and 3D.

Geometric shapes (2D):
Circles, Ovals, Squares, Rectangles, Triangles

Geometric forms (3D):
cones, cubes, cylinders, slabs, pyramids and spheres

Organic:
leaf, horse, lizard, cloud

Turn name into a geometric shape by turning the letters into block letters.
Design folder with name in block letters and decorate with different size/color geometric shapes.
*Have students draw name first, large and centered on folder. Color with markers.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Primary and Secondary Colors: dying eggs

Materials:
6 boiled eggs per student
boiling water
small containers
food coloring
vinegar
paper towels
"egg lifters" (tongs, pasta spoons, etc)
white crayon

Instructions:
Students were asked what is a primary color? Colors that can not be made using other colors. What are the primary colors? Yellow, red, blue. What are secondary colors? Colors formed by combining primary colors. What are the secondary colors? Orange, Purple, Green.
These were listed out and then students were asked to form hypothesis of what 2 primary colors they thought formed each secondary color.

Students will need to dye three eggs each color. They only have 6 eggs.
Dye three yellow, dye three red (one of which is already yellow), and dye three blue (one that is already yellow, and one already red).

*Optional: each egg after first dying can be drawn on with white crayon to act as a wax resist.

Review:
primary colors
secondary colors
scientific method
hypothesis
wax resist