Both of these ideas I borrowed from other people’s recent blog posts. You caught me red-handed! I’ve gotten so many good ideas from other art teacher’s blogs. Go ahead and check my blog roll on the side of my page and you can see some of the other ones that I read. Here are some students working on a gigantic weaving! I’m super excited about this project. It is an “extra” project that kids can work on when they are … Read more…
The 2nd graders made circular weavings this week. Some are still finishing up. They are like the ones we made at the weaving camp I taught. Here is the big jumble of yarn that I have in one of the boxes. I just put this out and the kids pulled out the yarn they wanted from the jumble. I hate to waste yarn (or any art supplies) and this tangle of yarn is a tad bit overwhelming to untangle. They … Read more…
New Christmas scrapbook pages. I have a Christmas scrapbook where I make two or three pages every year with pictures from that years’ Christmas. I have done it for about 6 years or so now… it’s fun to see how the family changes.
Here are some Valentine’s Day prints I made out of a styrofoam printing plate. You can use those styrofoam meat plates or, like I did, order the styrofoam printing plates from an art catalog (like Nasco). These are great for little kids to print with. All you have to do is draw with a pencil onto the foam. Then, using water based printing ink, roll it onto a tray using a brayer. Then, roll the inked brayer onto the foam. … Read more…
One World One Heart One World One Heart was created in 2007 by Lisa Swifka as an event hosted to connect bloggers with one another. Each of the blogs participating hosts a giveaway. You can find a list of participants/blogs here. This year, I am participating! Welcome to anyone who has stopped by my blog through this blog hop.Here’s a little about me: My name is Marcia. I am a K-6 Art teacher in Madison, WI. I’m 31 years old, have a husband named … Read more…
We made this with my first grade class. I took mat board, and the kids stapled their own pipe cleaners to the ends and then weaved in yarn, ribbons and feathers. The kids did a great job on their weavings, but I think I like this technique better.
Many of these are pages in progress and I’m trying to figure out what to do with them. For now they are saved in my journal, waiting for another day. I have a bunch of photographs I “warped” with bleach spray which I may put on top of the pages. We’ll see…
These are two pages I made while “taking” the online Strathmore Visual Journaling Course. Pam Carriker led us through the process of using photocopies of some of our old collages, cutting them up and adding layers of gesso and paint prints. The top one uses portions of old collages and the bottom page does not. With the bottom page, I started by painting circular shapes with watercolor paints. I did some writing with white pens and smears of chalk pastels. … Read more…
The 3/4s painted Pointillist Trees. They have studied trees in Science. We learned about the artist Georges Seurat by reading Scholastic Art magazine. Students identified and described Pointillist paintings. They created a Pointillist painting of trees showing dimension and form by color mixing. Tips: use the back end of the paintbrush, a q-tip or a small brush. Keep the size of the paper small (9×12″ is plenty).
The goals for this project are to Classify artworks as landscape, still-life or portrait. Identify and use foreground, middle ground, and background in two-dimensional works of art. Use size relationships and simple depth techniques to show space in an artwork. We learned about the artist Grandma Moses and created a winter collage using various materials. We read a couple books about Grandma Moses and looked at her artwork. These are two books about Grandma Moses which are great for this … Read more…
The kindergartners are studying penguins in their classroom, so we made penguins out of model magic modelling compound. One trick to get the parts to stick better is to use just a bit of regular hand lotion on your hands to make the model magic just a bit softer and squishier. Then, we made a triorama and decorated the background for a habitat. One thing I like about the trioramas is that it’s a good way for the kids to … Read more…
True Random Number Generator Result: 1 Powered by RANDOM.ORG Pam Speaker you are the winner. Please email me your address! you can email marciadotcom @ yahoo . com (no spaces). Congrats! Pam Speaker said… This sounds like a neat book! I’m a first year teacher and new to blogging! I find myself looking for books often to spark creativity in my lessons and in the art room. This giveaway is a great idea :]
For those of you who sell prints of your artwork or your own original photographs (like on Etsy or at shows) where do you get them done? or do you do it yourself?
