Where's Waldo Bulletin BoardDuring the first week of school we will be going over the classroom rules, jobs, etc. We will talk about art and what we will be learning about during the school year.
For the first project, I will have all students create a self-portrait. My only rule is: no stick people! I will let the students draw themselves however they want. Next, I will collect all the self-portraits and hang them up to create the "Where's Waldo (Mrs. Egbert)?" board! Students will have had a great time looking for themselves! |
Beautiful Oops
I will read the wonderful cook by Barney Saltzberg called "Beautiful Oops". We will discuss that there are no mistakes in art. You can turn any "oops" into a wonderful masterpiece. I will:
•Have each child make a mistake on purpose (a smear, a dot, a scribble) on a piece of paper. •After one minute, have everyone pass his or her drawing to the left. •The next person adds onto the drawing to turn it into something amazing. (Themes may be suggested at first, like Pass the Lion, or Pass the Truck, or Pass the Monster, etc.) |
Art portfolio weekWe will be making our art portfolios. I would like to teach the students to treat the artwork respectfully. I do not want it to get stuffed into the backpack and thrown away before it even makes it home. We will create our portfolios where the art work will be stored. We will have a portfolio night at the end of the 1st semester when the students will be able to take their art work home and show it to their families.
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Hot dogs and cool catsindergartners learn two new color families: warm & cool colors.The title of this lesson is as old as dirt but I put my own spin on the execution with one of my favorite techniques-- taking a wet paintbrush to watercolor markers. Easy to finish in one 45 minute class too!
Steps to create this lesson: 1. Introduce warm and cool color families. 2. Fold a 12"x18" piece of drawing paper in half. I usually have this ready before students come. 3. Draw eyes, nose, mouth, ears and whiskers at the top of the paper with a sharpie. 4. Draw paws and claws at the bottom of the paper with sharpie. 5. Add lots of lines (don't color) using warm colored washable markers for the "hot dog" and cool colored washable markers for the "cool cat". Fill up the whole dog and cat all the way down to the paws. 6. Pass out cups of water and paintbrushes and let students paint over their marker lines, however I will encourage them not to go overboard so they don't lose the TEXTURE! It doesn't get much cuter than this. |
Color MixingMany Kindergarteners don’t have prior experience with mixing colors, as their pre-school paints were often pre-mixed into the colors they needed. Here is what I plan to do: 1. First draw six circles, about 1″ in diameter, around a paper plate. Have an adult place a quarter-sized squirt of red, yellow and blue (the primary colors) in three of the circles, leaving an empty circle in between each one. 2. Then, teach this specific way to clean your brush when changing colors: Press the brush firmly on the bottom of the water container a few times, then blot it on a paper towel to get the extra water off. No swishing or tapping! 3. Now, students will mix their colors! Grab a good amount from the yellow puddle and place it in the circle between the yellow and the blue. Next, add a good amount of blue to this new puddle and mix the two together till you have a puddle of green. (If you do your color “grabbing” from the edges of the puddles instead of the center, you won’t need to clean your brush to pick up the next color.) 4. Clean your brush and do this same thing with the blue and the red to make a purple (or violet) puddle. 5. Now it’s time to paint! Paint three circles using the primary colors (red, yellow and blue) just above the middle of your paper. These will be the centers of your flowers. 6. Then use green to paint stems, leaves and grass. 7. Next, use your secondary colors (orange, purple and green) to paint around your centers again. Use a different color to add petals. Fill your paper as much as possible! Learning Objectives: To show students the three primary colors and how they can be used to make all the other colors on the color wheel. To give students the opportunity to experiment and mix their own colors with the tissue paper overlapping. To give students the opportunity to work with glue in a new form by spreading it on the paper using a paint brush. ![]()
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Shape Puppets
Students create hand puppets made from legal envelopes and cut pieces of paper. They review the names of geometric shapes and used those shapes to create the puppets. At the end they add detail to their puppet with crayon or marker.
Grade: kindergarten
Time: one 45 min class Materials: legal envelopes assorted shapes cut out of colored paper scissors markers Elmers glue Learning Objectives: To introduce students to the names of shapes.To practice using scissors. To practice using bottled glue, and use the correct amount. |
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October 3, 2016
Texture OwlsMaterials: black card stock, Crayola Colored Chalk, pencil & eraser
Draw a simple body & head for the owl, draw big eyes & pupils, a beak and a branch below him. When using the Crayola Chalk I break the stick into 3 pieces so the students can use small 1/2 in pieces for all projects. Color in the large eyes orange, don’t color the pupil. Color the beak yellow. With the brown chalk start creating little lines of texture around the eyes and beak. Then use the side of the brown colored chalk to make short fat strokes on his face. Then start down the owls body, being sure to let the black show in between each stroke. After the body we start making the strokes around the face. The branch can be green and don’t forget yellow little toes holding the branch. |
Line Variety Painting
Kindergarten students will talk about the different kinds of lines and the names that go along with them. They will also learn the words horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. The students will then guided through the process of creating an image using oil pastels. I will give them a type of line and a direction and the students have to draw that line, and then switch to a new color to get ready for the next line. When they are finished drawing lines the students will use watercolor paint to fill in between the lines. The result should be a classroom full of very colorful paintings!
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Grade: Kindergarten
Time: one 45 min class Materials: 12"x18" white paper oil pastels tempera cakes or watercolor paints |
Learning Objectives: -To introduce students to the names of different kinds of lines.To introduce students to the vocabulary words: horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. -To give students the opportunity to paint with many colors within the boundaries of the lines they create. |
Funny face pumpkinsThis adorable pumpkin art project teaches cutting and pasting skills as well as color mixing.
Hand out a sheet of 12′ x 18″ orange construction paper to each child. Using a white oil pastel, draw a basic pumpkin: big oval with lines arcing downwards from stem to bottom. Set out three tubs of paint (either in plastic containers or 6-well palettes). Place brushes in containers or set brushes on a tray. Show the kids how to mix the yellow, orange and red tempera paints together on the pumpkin. They can paint however much of the pumpkin as they want. Once dry, cut out the pumpkin shape. Set aside. Give each student a 4″ x 9″ (approx.) piece of white and one piece (same size) or black construction paper. Fold white paper in half, draw an oval on one side and cut out. Glue eyes to pumpkin. Now draw a large mouth on the black paper and cut out. Glue mouth onto pumpkin. Cut two small circles from black paper and add to oval eyes. Now cut teeth from white paper. Add eyebrows and a nose if you like. Limit instruction as far as facial features go. The less teacher interference, the more fun it is! |
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Fall TreesMaterials: acrylic or tempera paint in fall colors (orange, red, yellow, brown, green), pencil, paper towel, Q-tips, light blue cardstock, Paint brush
I plan to use foam plates and q-tips for painting in this lesson. It makes for very easy clean up. We will start off drawing the tree trunk and a few branches. Paint it in brown using the paint brush. Then start dotting in the fall leaves over the top of the tree branches with the q-tips. Harvest Corn
Students talk about the first Thanksgiving between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. Corn was given to the Pilgrims by the Native Americans and it was one of the first crops that the Pilgrims grew in America. The kindergarteners are shown examples of multicolored harvest corn and they describe all of the colors that they see. They practice their cutting and gluing skills when they created their own harvest corn collages. When all the artwork is put together it becomes giant field of Kindergarten Corn!
Grade: kindergarten Time: one-two 45 min classes Materials: 9"x4.5" tan paper assorted colors of paper for kernels Elmers glue scissors pencils Learning Objectives: To make a curriculum connection by discussing then first Thanksgiving between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. To practice using scissors. To practice using bottled glue, and use the correct amount. ![]()
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Sculpting- SnailsMaterials: Crayola Model Magic, cardboard or chip board squares, glue, acrylic paint, paint brushes, water cups, paper towels, pencil, paint tray, white printer paper.
This is a 2 part project. 1 class sculpting and the next class to paint. We sculpt the snail shell by rolling out a piece of model magic. I give them a piece of standard size printer paper to use to roll out on and to measure the length. Then coil it. As they finish that step I go around gluing them down to the card board and I add a line of glue where the body will go. With another piece of clay roll a little sausage shaped body, stick that down to the cardboard. Sculpt the little antennae and stick the to the head. I add a little dot of glue under each as they are finishing them up. The clay dries overnight. Paint step by step with acrylic paint. |
Snowman Collage
Students practiced their cutting and gluing skills when creating this seasonal picture of a snowman. They started by using the words "Small, medium and large" to cut out three circles. Then they used their extra paper to make the snowflakes. They added details to their snowman by using only cut paper, no markers or crayons were used.
Grade: Kindergarten Time: one-two 45 min classes Materials: 12"x18" light-blue or gray construction paper 12"x18" white paper assorted small pieces of colored paper Elmers glue pencils scissors Learning Objectives: To give students the opportunity to practice their cutting skills. To practice using liquid glue bottles. (Not too much, not too little, just right) To create a seasonal connection To encourage creativity so that not all snowmen are alike |
Winter Mittens
We will start the class by reading the story "The Mitten" about a boy who loses his white mitten in the snow. Then I will tell the students they will be designing their own mittens and the challenge was to design a mitten that would stand out against a white snowy background so it would never get lost. Students will use mitten tracers to trace the shape of a mitten onto the colored paper of their choice. They will then be asked to design a mitten using shapes and lines. They will use construction paper crayons to add bright colors to their project.
Grade: Kindergarten Time: one 60 min class Materials: 9"x12" colored paper (assorted) pencils Sharpie markers construction paper crayons scissors mitten-shaped tracers Learning Objectives: To encourage students to try many, many different types of patterns to fill their drawings with lots of interesting colors and designs.To give students the opportunity to practice their cutting skills To practice tracing ![]()
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