This week the 1st graders started making printed pictures of faces. 1. Cut strips of cardboard in varying widths.2. Place small paper plates with black paint on tables. Give each child a piece of paper. Demonstrate how you can dip the edges of the cardboard in paint and print lines. Next week, we will add color with crayons and markers. I also have a box of alphabet rubberstamps which they will use to add text to their pictures if they … Read more…
Here is an easy project for first graders to introduce complementary colors. We started off by coloring a mini-color wheel (did not include the tertiary colors). Then, we identified the complementary colors on the color wheel. Next, the children were called up to pick out two sheets of paper that were complementary colors. I monitored to make sure that these were indeed complementary colors. Next, the children cut out different types of shapes from the papers and glued them to … Read more…
Symmetry 1st Grade How can a quilt be a work of art? Why do people make art? The 1st graders looked at and discussed quilts. We talked about shapes, layering and symmetry. We made a fabric quilt square using felt, fabric, burlap, ribbon and buttons. These squares were supposed to demonstrate the student’s understanding of symmetry.
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The 1st graders learned about recycled art and how to use unconventional materials in art. We read 2 books by Hanoch Piven, which feature portraits made out of objects. The children brought in objects from home that represented aspects of themselves and we assembled the parts into faces in art class. I had three 8th grade volunteers who helped hot glue everything. We used foam board and matboard for the base of the faces. Scroll down to see more examples … Read more…
box of stickers This was a super fun art project that I forgot to blog about earlier. We did this at the summer art class I taught at my school. Tape and sticker pictures. I wrote about tape and sticker pictures earlier which I love to do with my 20 month old daughter. The above picture is a box of stickers I made. I took some sticky address labels, and color photocopied some patterned paper onto the sticky labels. Then, … Read more…
Puppets were made during my summer art class! For this project, I drew a puppet template, which the kids traced and cut out from felt. They cut out 2 pieces, a front and back. Then, I hot glued them together. The kids then cut out other pieces of felt and added googly eyes to decorate their puppet. They attached these pieces with Elmer’s glue. We added a large stick inside also to hold the puppet up. We made these really … Read more…
In my summer art class, we painted superhero canvases. The kids decided what superhero they would like to be and drew these on dry wax paper with markers and colored pencils. Then I used gel medium (on the backs of the paper) to adhere their images to the canvas board. Then, they used paints to paint a background. I love them!! There is a link to the dry wax paper at the bottom of this post. The ages of my … Read more…
I am teaching 2 days of art camp in the afternoons this week. On Monday, one of the projects we made were sun tiles. I picked up some glossy ceramic tiles from the hardware store. They looked at a few pictures of Mexican clay suns and they sketched their sun idea on a piece of paper. Then, using pencil and sharpie markers, they drew their sun on the tile. On the back of the tile I superglued a picture hanger. … Read more…
The 1st graders looked at art that was about water and then created their own underwater collage using tissue paper, foil, cellophane and drawings of underwater creatures.
On Friday, the 7th/8th graders taught the younger kids for part of the day. One of the projects they made were these lovely tissue paper flowers in a construction paper cone vase. I loved them!
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@font-face { font-family: “Cambria”; }@font-face { font-family: “Chalkduster”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Inside Out Pictures The Primaries learned about positive and negative space. They exercised their cutting skills and spatial awareness. Step One: Cut out shapes from a 4.5″ x 9″ colored piece of paper. Step Two: Take all of the shapes and try to put them back together like a puzzle. Putting the … Read more…
Here are some of the finished styrofoam Valentine’s prints by the 1st graders. One trick that made these work MUCH better is when I dug out the jar of ink-retarder. The prints look so much better than the first ones we printed.
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.
