Where's Waldo Bulletin BoardFor 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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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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Aboriginal Animals
Students will study the artwork of the aborigines and specifically focus on their paintings of the 'Dreamtime Spirits". They create their own painting by first using the dot technique mastered by the aborigines. For the background I will each table a tray full of paints, and each student a pencil. They will dip the eraser in the paint and they will fill their paper with dots. Next, they will have to select an animal to use a focal point. I will have them draw an animal on brown paper with pencil. Then they will fill the animal in with lines and patterns using an assortment of black, gray and brown markers. Once they draw and trace their animal with neutral colors it will be glued into the center of their dot painting.
Grade: 3rd grade Time: 50 min class Materials: 12"x18" brown construction paper 9"x12" tan construction paper pencils Sharpie markers brown markers tempera paint pencils for dipping erasers in paint |
Georgia O'Keefe FlowersGrade 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 Sargentbrand for chalk and these for oil pastels. ![]()
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Abstracted Cats
Students will look at the artwork of Laurel Burch, an artist who was famous for her creative way of depicting cats. The third graders will enjoy this project and it will give them a fun starting point for experimenting with patterns and colors.
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Vanishing point road
We will have a simple landscape lesson that illustrates the vanishing point perspective.
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3rd Grade Pumpkin Sketches
I want to focus on shading in this lesson. We will create a simple pumpkin sketch, starting with an oval and going step by step through the complete pumpkin. After the sketch is done, we add the shadow and the horizon line. Then add shading on one section of the pumpkin at a time. Using our finger to smudge the pencil along the way. They will love that their pumpkins look “real”. If we have a few extra minutes we will add bats in the background.
Materials: My Pal pencil, pink eraser, drawing paper |
Halloween silhouettesMaterials: watercolor paper, pencil, eraser, Cray Pas oil pastel (white, black, and yellow), watercolor brush, water cups, Watercolors, rulers
I had everyone create a frame around the edges of the paper using the ruler. We quickly drew in the ground and the tree. Then add in the cat and the Jack-o-lantern and the moon. We use the yellow oil pastel to color in the moon, eyes and mouth. I used white right on top of the yellow places to brighten it and to create a great wax resist. Then color the rest with the black oil pastel. Whenever I use watercolor, I only let them use a few colors out of the watercolor trays to avoid the mess. I chose orange, pink and purple for the skies. We add water to those colors. I quickly wash in the orange first at the bottom of the sky and then pink in the center and purple towards the top. The results were stunning! It can be easily modified for different grade levels and different mediums. Materials: watercolor paper, pencil, eraser, Cray Pas oil pastel (white, black, and yellow), watercolor brush, water cups, Watercolors, rulers I had everyone create a frame around the edges of the paper using the ruler. It keeps the paper from curling up on the edges once it’s painted on. We quickly drew in the ground and the tree. Then add in the cat and the Jack-o-lantern and the moon. We use the yellow oil pastel to color in the moon, eyes and mouth. I used white right on top of the yellow places to brighten it and to create a great wax resist. Then color the rest with the black oil pastel. Whenever I use watercolor, I only let them use a few colors out of the watercolor trays to avoid the mess. I chose orange, pink and purple for the skies. We add water to those colors. I quickly wash in the orange first at the bottom of the sky and then pink in the center and purple towards the top. The results were stunning! |
Chalk Pastel PumpkinsI found this amazing lesson. I cannot wait to have the 3rd graders try this. These pumpkins will be beautiful!
http://www.artwithmrsnguyen.com/search/label/2nd%20grade |
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Sculpting- MonkeysMaterials: 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 monkey 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 an oval 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. |
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. |
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