This project is fun for any grade, but especially the kindergartners because it is so cute to see what they come up with. We painted broad strokes of WARM COLORS in the background with watercolor paints. Then, using black and white pieces of paper, we cut out spooky shapes– haunted houses, bats, ghosts, etc. We used a black marker to draw extra details.
This is an easy line lesson you can do tomorrow or with a substitute teacher.Step one: Draw lines in pencil across the page. Make as many types of lines as you can… wavy, zigzag, straight, loopy, dotted, dashed, etc.Step two: Outline the lines in black marker.Step three: Color in other areas with marker or crayon.
The kindergartners have been learning about LINES and discovering the many types of lines in the world. This week, they used wire and chenille stems to create a line sculpture. The base is styrofoam. Aren’t these fantastic?
This lesson was all about lines. The students first painted a brightly colored background with patches of color. Next, the students painted black lines on top. They focused on painting a variety of types of lines– dashed, dotted, zig zag, straight, spiral, thick, thin, wavy, bumpy, rocky, loopy, etc.
Grade K learned about the most very basic marks in art… DOTS and CIRCLES. The class read the book The Dot, by Peter Reynolds. They also looked at a slide show of artwork that uses dots. These are some examples: Aboriginal Art made in Australia Georges Seurat and his Pointillist technique The Kindergartners made a picture using dots and circles as design elements. They focused on drawing circles, cutting and gluing circles and overlapping. The students got their first … Read more…
After experimenting with several ways of doing bubble prints, I think I found a way that works well. I poured some kids bubbles into small containers. Then, I mixed a few drops of food coloring into the containers. The bubbles were cheapo and weren’t really bubbly, so I added some dish soap as well. Then, I blew bubbles just as you normally would blow bubbles and let them land on the paper. When they popped, they left these splatters and … 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…
This was a 2 day project. We decided as a class what our theme would be for the banner. We chose the jungle. Next, we brainstormed types of animals in the jungle. Each kid signed up for one animal to make. We cut these out of felt. Next, I hot glued them on to a piece of burlap and green felt. The kids also raided the fabric scrap box for extra details.
This is one of my favorite lessons for kindergartners! First, we identify and classify the colors as warm or cool. Then, we choose all the warm colors we have (different shades of oranges, yellows, reds). Then the first day, the paint their whole piece of paper with warm colors. After they have placed these on the drying rack there is usually about 10-15 left of class, so they sketch some dinosaurs from pictures that I have show them. The following … Read more…
This unit focused on recalling a family memory and creating a picture about this story. We read about the artist Faith Ringgold and her story quilts.
Patchwork Animals To connect again with literature, the kindergartners read the book Elmer, by David McKee. Using squares of colored paper and patterned paper, they are making their own patchwork animal. The objectives of this project are to 1) Define, identify, and use a variety of patterns and colors in a collage 2) Show unity by using similar colors in a picture and 3) Create works of art inspired by stories and themes.
Rainbow Fish by Kindergartners First, we read the book Rainbow Fish. Then, the kids drew pictures of fish. Next, we colored them using neon crayons and regular crayons. Color REALLY hard and thickly. Demonstrate this to the children so they see how to color darkly. Next, paint with watercolor on the background, to fill in the water. The paint will resist. We used these watercolors. They give a bit of sparkle/glimmer. Not a lot, but a nice … Read more…
