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This is a fun lesson to do with those 6th graders who are just too "cool for school", lol. I showed the students this You Tube video where Batman & Robin are fighting the bad guys and on the screen are onomatopeoias (the kids LOVED it): Next, I had my slideshow playing on my new, fancy projector. I had the definition of onomatopeoia, sample artwork, various words they could choose from, and comic book fonts. I also had this handout printed out for kids to refer to: Here are the samples of artwork that I showed the class before we began our artwork: And, of course, I HAD to share the art of Roy Lichtenstein with this project: As you can see, these samples are layered with text and color, so for our assignment, students cut out black and white text from magazines and glued them all over their 9x12" paper. Then, they sketched out which word they wanted to put on their art. We used scrap paper to sketch out our ideas so they didn't mess-up their 9x12 collage work. When they were ready with their final idea, they used a sharpie marker to draw their words and details that describe their word on their paper. We didn't even get to the color part of this project yet today, but they are so excited about this one! Give it a try! If you want the slideshow, leave me a comment and I can e-mail it to you :)

Throwing a Minecraft party and want it to feel like were right in the game. We need cool TNT-themed decorations thatll make the place pop. Finding easy-to-print stuff that matches this theme is tricky.We got creative with TNT Minecraft themed party printables for those explosive celebrations.

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I absolutely adore the final results of the sixth grade cave art project. After learning about and viewing some pictures of real cave art, and talking about the very first "art" to be created, the students used sponges, paints, and oil pastels to create there own version.

I recently developed a slight obsession with Shrinky Dinks. It was one of my favorite crafting activities as a child, and now as a mom, my daughter is having fun with it too. If you’ve never used it, it’s basically thin sheets of plastic that you can cut and color and then bake in the oven, […]

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This is a lesson about the artist, Peter Max. I like this lesson for 3rd graders up to 6th graders. This is harder for the littler kids to really get into, but older kids LOVE doing this one. Here is my lesson plan: First, talk to the kids about: Who is Peter Max? He was an artist whose work got popular in the 1960‘s. Ask them, "what comes to mind when you think about the 60's?" You may get "peace signs!", "Hippies!", etc. Then you can talk about his imagery that he used that spoke to this time period. Talk about how Peter Max did things like album covers, posters for concerts and events, and other illustrations. Ask the kids, "What is the difference between an illustrator and other kinds of artists?" Explain: Illustrators create art from other people’s ideas, fine artists create art from their own. Illustrators get paid by other people to make their ideas come alive, visually. Children’s books, magazines, product packaging, etc., all use illustrators to tell a story. Show examples of Peter Max's work in a computer slideshow. Ask kids to hold their comments until the end of the presentation, but to be thinking about what do all of these pictures have in common? What do you notice that keeps showing up in a lot of these pictures? How do we know it’s the same artist? At the end, take comments from kids and talk about Peter Max's style and how it is unique. Hopefully the kids notice these things: He made lots of heavy outlines in black. Stars. sun rays. doves. people. neon. BRIGHT and FLAT colors. Mention: He was interested in astronomy (study of the cosmos) and so thats why he had lots of stars and planets in his art. Explain the procedure for the project: First, do pencil drawings. They must include a sun and/or stars in a composition that is mostly sky. Then, outline everything in black sharpie. Color everything in with markers and highlighters. These are what some of my kids have come up with. They turned out amazing, I think!!! I LOVE doing this project. The kids get SO into this. I think Peter Max's style lends itself perfectly to kids projects. I hope some of you out there can use this lesson plan and enjoy! Stars and sun rays, Corie

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Earlier this year, my co-worker Jayne found the idea to make a collaborative school-wide paper mural based on the artwork of Thank YouX. The idea for a student mural originally came from Jenell Novello and you can see the lesson plan write-up on Artsonia. She also so generously provided the lesson plan and templates on Google docs. Thank You X got his name by accident. In 2009 Andy Warhol’s spray painted portrait was spotted on a city street in L.A.. … Read more... →

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This is a lesson about the artist, Peter Max. I like this lesson for 3rd graders up to 6th graders. This is harder for the littler kids to really get into, but older kids LOVE doing this one. Here is my lesson plan: First, talk to the kids about: Who is Peter Max? He was an artist whose work got popular in the 1960‘s. Ask them, "what comes to mind when you think about the 60's?" You may get "peace signs!", "Hippies!", etc. Then you can talk about his imagery that he used that spoke to this time period. Talk about how Peter Max did things like album covers, posters for concerts and events, and other illustrations. Ask the kids, "What is the difference between an illustrator and other kinds of artists?" Explain: Illustrators create art from other people’s ideas, fine artists create art from their own. Illustrators get paid by other people to make their ideas come alive, visually. Children’s books, magazines, product packaging, etc., all use illustrators to tell a story. Show examples of Peter Max's work in a computer slideshow. Ask kids to hold their comments until the end of the presentation, but to be thinking about what do all of these pictures have in common? What do you notice that keeps showing up in a lot of these pictures? How do we know it’s the same artist? At the end, take comments from kids and talk about Peter Max's style and how it is unique. Hopefully the kids notice these things: He made lots of heavy outlines in black. Stars. sun rays. doves. people. neon. BRIGHT and FLAT colors. Mention: He was interested in astronomy (study of the cosmos) and so thats why he had lots of stars and planets in his art. Explain the procedure for the project: First, do pencil drawings. They must include a sun and/or stars in a composition that is mostly sky. Then, outline everything in black sharpie. Color everything in with markers and highlighters. These are what some of my kids have come up with. They turned out amazing, I think!!! I LOVE doing this project. The kids get SO into this. I think Peter Max's style lends itself perfectly to kids projects. I hope some of you out there can use this lesson plan and enjoy! Stars and sun rays, Corie