This is an art project, designed for e-learning, but could be used for in-person learning, based on lines and sculpture, and designing your own playground! Standards: I can recognize and draw different types of lines. I can draw a unique design for a playground. I can cut a variety of different lines. I can create a paper sculpture with at least 10 lines, that resembles a playground. Part 1 Slide 3: Exploration Slide 4: Practice Slide 5: Analysis Slide 6: Design Inspiration Slide 7: Planning Part 2 Slide 8: Exploration Slide 9: Creation Slide 10: Reflection
If the coronavirus has you sheltering at home with your kids, this art and play guide will help promote learning while staying creative!
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Pretty much every kid seems to love LEGOs- the little bricks have been the building material of choice for generations. From video games to movies to theme parks, LEGOs seem to lend themsel…
Every year at my elementary school I try to make one permanent piece of art with my students that will stay long after they are gone as the...
My quest this year was to create a more organised environment in my classroom. A space that allowed for natural expression through various forms of play as well as a space that was organised and wa…
Lesson Title: Giacometti Figure Sculptures Concepts: Figure Sculpting, Working in Wire, Capturing Movement & Gesture, Creating 3D Forms Appropriate Grade Levels: 3rd - High School Lesson Rationale/Overview: After an intensive figure drawing unit,
What a fantastic birthday party (or rainy day) activity! Supply a lump of clay and assorted doo-dads and whatchamacallits , and let childr...
My 7th Graders learned about Aboriginal Art and how the Aboriginees used dots to create their paintings. Students were given a wood block, 2...
Ignite your child’s curiosity in geology with a rock exploration center! Collect some rocks from outside and gather a few materials, and your’e ready to encourage all kinds of rock investigation. It’s such an easy and fun way to foster a love of science within young children! Follow our Science for Kids Pinterest board! …
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When you're out of construction paper, head to the kitchen and pull this inexpensive and fun roll out for some extra fun foil art projects for kids.
Portrait drawing...ugh. Most students have this reaction when they learn of our unit on portraits because they feel incapable when it comes to drawing a human face realistically. So...we practice...and practice some more. We draw together, we draw with YouTube videos and we use step-by-step drawing portraits tutorials. Never mind the fact that most students have practiced portraits one way or another since 3rd grade. Still, it's not a favorite subject of most kids. Even when I mix up the mediums we use, students are still timid and unsure of their work. This quarter, I was reintroduced to the work of Cheeming Boey. Although his cup drawings have been around for a while, I felt like his work was being pinned liked crazy lately and the more I dug into researching him, the more I wanted to connect his style and medium choices to our portrait unit. Videos showcasing his work distinctly encompass the 8 Studio Habits of Mind, and I had to share with his process with 8th grade art students. Great videos of Boey here and here. We began these works with sketching entire portraits using the typical method (head shape first, draw lines to mark the middle of the face, add eyes, etc). However, once we felt OK with drawing portraits in the typical way, we moved on to starting with just one eye. Boey mentions in his interviews that he doesn't necessary start with the large shapes first. We decided to do that same. We began with a detailed eye on the cup and then rest of the portrait (what we could fit anyway) fell into place. A bordered band completed the top of the cup. We found some great inspiration here. So much fun... The stands were created with a dowel and a small wooden circle to act as the base. We basically punched holes in the cups and strung them on. Tissue paper adds a pop of color. Come back soon to check out our next installment of "unusual materials for usual subjects"- Picasso Pop Can Portraits!
So what is going on in Art 2? Currently we are looking at the work and style of Rex Ray. If you are not familiar, Rex Ray is an artist/graphic artist who actively creates amazing design inspired artworks that focus on wonderful shapes, colors and patterns. His work is wildly vivid and interesting. His use of layers gave me the idea that his work could inspire a relief sculpture. He is also a real, living and breathing artist, who not only displays work in museums but also sells his work commercially to make it available to a wide range of people. Here a only a FEW of the great examples of Rex Ray artwork. I highly recommend googling his images because there is way more variety than what I can show here. This is my version of the art challenge that the students in Art 2 will take on. The goals for the challenge include two layers that would be considered background layers and then three layers (at least) that will be considered foreground layers. Planning sketches turn into a design, designs get traced and retraced onto cardboard and then the cardboard it cut. I make it sound realllllly easy but it is quite the process and a lot of thought and planning needs to occur. Once all the pieces are cut out we will add color and other patterns. Finally, we will glue the layers down to create a finished relief artwork. Check back soon to how the students of Art 2 tackled this art challenge!
The idea for this lesson came from an image I saw on Pinterest.. but after doing some investigative work - seems to have originated from the blog Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue and before that from the 1991 book written by Sara Beggs, "The No Nonsense Guide to Teaching Art." For this lesson we began by taking about what symmetry is and the difference between linear symmetry (1 line of symmetry) and radial symmetry (more than 1 line of symmetry). Then we talked about what a sculpture is (a piece of artwork you can see from all sides - it is 3-dimensional) and what a relief "sculpture" is (a piece of artwork that has depth on the surface but is not meant to be seen from all sides). Once students understood the principles behind radial symmetry and sculpture we began creating our very own radial paper relief sculptures! Students started by folding a piece of 12"x12" black construction paper diagonally both ways and vertical and horizontally (to create an 'X' crease and a '+' crease). Making these creases makes creating a radial design SO much easier because it gives you guidelines to work with. Once their papers had been folded and their names written, we sat them aside. Before having students begin folding their colored paper (each piece was cut to 3" x 3") to fill the inside of their design, I demonstrated 4 folds to them to get them started. *Students were allowed to deviate from these folds if they wanted to. To download the handout below, click on the arrow button in the top right corner (this will open it in a new window). You can download from there. My kids absolutely LOVED this project! They are already super into origami, so this project was like heaven to them! :) You might also be interested in checking out my Paper Poinsettia Sculpture lesson which uses the same basic concepts. Also available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store!
Cardboard has always been a common medium used in Art classes. Many of us used it to make all sorts of art pieces, yet some struggled to master this material so much that they can only use cardboard as storage boxes. If you are one of the latter, you are in for a surprise with the intricate artwork Monomi Ohno succeeded in crafting out of this material./p>
A volte basta un odore, un ritorno nei luoghi in cui abbiamo mosso i primi passi nel percorso più difficile della nostra vita per lasciar affiorare ciò che credevamo fosse sepolto per sempre. È quello che accade al protagonista dell'avvincente thriller psicologico "Figli dello stesso fango", scritto dall'autore esordiente Daniele Amitrano.
My 7th Graders learned about Aboriginal Art and how the Aboriginees used dots to create their paintings. Students were given a wood block, 2...
Sumi-e Painting 4 Basic Brushstrokes: Lesson 2 Learn 4 Traditional Sumi-e or Chinese brush stroke techniques: pulling, pressure, side and smooshing
This is a very interesting project that was initiated a few years ago by Natalia Ivanova a Russian photographer and photojournalist with the aim to show the scale of ethnic diversity in a visually appealing and a creative manner. I personally love such projects and the original idea behind it. This ambitious project aims to cover all ethnic groups of […]
Teach math with art!
