August 29, 2016
Where's Waldo Bulletin Board
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!
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September 5, 2016
Beautiful OopsI 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.) |
September 12, 2016
Primary Colors for our MiceStudents will overlap primary colors to make a background for their Mouse Paint mice. I will use Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint to reinforce the concept of primary and secondary colors.
Students will start with yellow cake tempera and paint about one third of their background, starting at the corner and brushing towards the center. Then, after getting their brushes REALLY clean they will do the same with red paint, overlapping part of the yellow, creating orange. When they add blue, they overlap both red and yellow, making purple and green. I will use Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint to reinforce the concept of primary and secondary colors. When the bodies are torn, (while the backgrounds havea chance to dry a bit) and cut pink ears and tails to glue on to their bodies with small dots of glue. Students can choose to paint their mouse with a primary color, or mix two colors to paint the mouse a secondary color. They will use small lids as palettes for their mixing and many referred back to the colors they will have used in the background to mix the secondary color that they want. |
September 19, 2016
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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September 26, 2016
Georgia O'Keefe Flowers
Grade two’s went on a hunt for flowers so that they could draw them as big as possible inspired by Georgia O’Keefe. We are now huge fans of this wonderful famous American artist. My students related very quickly to her artwork and fell in love with the giant flowers.Each child had a real flower to draw and they drew these on 12×18 black construction paper. They outlined their finished drawings with white crayon and decided whether to color in their flowers with warm or cool colors.
One group colored in with chalk pastels and used their ‘magic fingers’ to blend the colors and the other group colored in with oil pastels. The backgrounds were the opposite of their flowers. make sure to use good quality pastels. I use these Sargent brand for chalk and these for oil pastels. ![]()
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October 3, 2016
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Tape Resist Birch Tree Painting
Students will create fall New England landscapes using a masking tape resist technique. They will rip the tape into lots of "trees and branches" and I will have them stick the tape to their pantleg until their pantlegs are full. Then they start sticking ...the tape to their paper. I like to do that project on sturdy watercolor paper so that the tape does not rip the paper when we peel it off. Also, by sticking the tape to their pant legs it helps make it a little less sticky, and less likely to tear the paper. Also, when they paint make sure all their trees are "planted" in the ground and none floating in the sky! After the painting is done we are done for Day 1.
Day 2 involves peeling off the tape. We will peel it off, then I will demonstrate how to create a "birch tree texture" using horizontal marks with a crayon or colored pencil. Then we talk about what other things would be found in this environment. They add smaller branches, leaves, small animals... etc... For Art vocabulary, we discuss background/middle ground/foreground. I always start talking about background because that term is the most familiar to them. Then I show them an example of the project and they try to point out trees in the "background". We talk about what makes a tree look like it is in the background... (being up high from the bottom of the paper). Then we move onto middle ground and foreground, and by that time they have a better understanding of their art vocabulary words. Grade: 2nd grade Time: two 50 min classes Materials: 12"x18" watercolor paper masking tape watercolor paint pencils colored pencils Learning Objectives: Teach students three new Art vocabulary words: "foreground", "middleground", and "background"Show students a new way of using materials, in this case using masking tape to block the paint from sticking to the paper Create a connection to students learning about habitats in their science class |
October 17, 2016
Pennsylvania Dutch Rotational Hex Design
2nd grade students discussed the difference between rotational symmetry and mirror symmetry. They also learned about the Pennsylvania Dutch who created large Hex Designs that they hung on their barns. The talked about the meaning of the word "Hex" and realized that Hex designs have six sections, just like hexagons have six sides! They then created their own Rotational Hex Designs using pencils and markers.
Grade: 2nd grade Time: one 60 min class Materials: 12"x18" white paper pencils Sharpie markers Learning Objectives: To introduce students to the concept of rotational symmetry To teach students a brief history of the Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, and their use of Hex designs To discuss the meaning of the word "hex" ![]()
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October 24, 2016
October 31, 2016
Spider Web Art
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November 7, 2016
Texture TurkeysMaterials: Black Cardstock, pencil & eraser, craypas oil pastels
The drawing for this turkey is pretty simple. A circle in the center of the paper, the head, and neck. Add the feathers, wing, feet, face. Start with the texture of the head, neck and body. Color in the beak, legs, eyes and the red turkey snood… Betcha you didn’t know that’s what it’s called. Then I let the students choose 2 colors for each tail feather texture and add a second color to the wing. |
November 14, 2016
Tissue paper collageThis is a lovely art lesson to do during the Autumn season with the lovely colors a changing.We will talk about Autumn. I will have them draw the structure of the tree with a sharpie marker. I will do the drawing with them, encouraging them to draw a large tree, and having them draw the trunk thicker then gradually get thinner until very thin at the ends of the tree. I also had them draw the tree a little to the side, with part of it going off of the page, instead of directly in the center, just to maybe making the composition a little more appealing.
We then will talk about the color wheel with an emphasis on warm and cool colors. I will have a variety of pieces of tissue paper in groups for the kids to share. They will use a watered down glue to glue the tissue. I will give them pointers on gluing the tissue down, and will have them first tear a lot of pieces of tissue in preparation. I will emphasize to not use too large of pieces, and it's easier if you have a lot of pieces already torn, since your hands can get messy with glue once you start. They will need to make the tree only warm colors. After they are done with the tree, I will have them do the background in cool colors, but not until the tree is finished. It's also good to have them do a light coating of glue over the tissue as well as under, to make sure the pieces are glued well. |
November 28, 2016
Sculpting- PandasMaterials: Crayola Model Magic, cardboard or chip board rectangles, glue, acrylic paint, paint brushes, water cups, paper towels, pencil, paint tray
This is a 2 part project. 1 class sculpting and the next class to paint. The panda head is clay, the body is paint. We sculpt the circle for the head first and glued it to the cardboard, then sculpted a smaller circle for the snout and attach to the face. Sculpt the ears and attach, add a drop of glue under each ear to stick it to the cardboard. The clay slightly shrinks as it dries, so be sure it’s really attached to the head well. Add the eyes and a nose. Use the back of the pencil to indent a circle in the ears and the tip of the pencil to indent the smile. The clay dries overnight. Paint step by step with acrylic paint. |
December 5, 2016
Matroshka doll artSupplies
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