Monday I felt absolutely terrible. There was no real reason, no real trigger. I just felt blue, out of the blue (ha! sorry, (...) Read More
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Ever have one of THOSE weeks? Where life is chaotic, stressful, and messy? Where things don't go your way and you find yourself late at night picking apart all the things that went wrong? Well... we just had one of those weeks. (Ok... if I'm going to be honest... probably one of those months...) And I wish I could say that I was patient and loving and wise and kind and strong... but I wasn't. When life spirals out of control, I find myself doing two things- (1) taking naps and (2) doing easy art and craft activities. It's surprising how these two activities revive my spirits. So today I wanted to share this really easy art activity that my preschooler and I recently worked on together. Inspired by Meri Cherry, we made our own GIANT family process art. This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! For my full disclosure, click here. Several months ago we purchased a GIANT CANVAS from our local thrift/scrap store. (We got ours for $4! Score! But if you can't find them where you are, you could also just purchase canvases online too.) Our canvas was already half painted light blue, but we didn't mind. On our first day working with the canvas, we grabbed our tempera paint and just painted the whole thing however we wanted. (It was quite freeing, to work on a large canvas with no intentions in mind. We just enjoyed painting it however we felt.) Several days later (once our paint dried), we grabbed our oil pastels and kwik stix solid tempera paint and got working again. :) As you can see, we're both big fans of vibrant colors! Here's a photo of our finished (for now) artwork. I look forward to adding on more details and colors and watching the canvas evolve over time. And that's all. I hope this post finds you well, friends. As always, here's our current list of favorite art books for you and your kiddos to connect with and enjoy! Our current 15+ favorite art books: Colorful Dreamer A is for Art The Iridescence of Birds Modern Art Adventures Mix it Up Press Here Any Ed Emberley Book The Day the Crayons Quit Beautiful Oops Dog's Colorful Day Too Much Glue Harold and the Purple Crayon Day with No Crayons Artist to Artist Artist Ted The House Baba Built A Blue Butterfly: A Story of Claude Monet Sandy's Circus The Most Magnificent Thing The Artful Parent Ain't that the truth! Let's Keep in Contact! You can always find more easy and fun ideas on my Pinterest, Facebook, or Instagram accounts! (Or subscribe to my email mailing list by filling out the pink bar at the top of the screen.) Happy making, friends!
Thanks to the alignment of our calendar and curriculum map this year, we're celebrating DOT DAY at the end of our "Colors All Around" unit. We've learned about primary colors, secondary colors and shades, and have been identifying shapes and types of lines. Searching for a dimensional art project that would be a great summary to the unit AND a link to Peter H. Reynold's beloved book, I stumbled across this video from Cassie Stephens, a wonderful art teacher: ... and EUREKA! Give the pieces of paper FEET! Wanting to see, hear and read more, I discovered Cassie's blog here, and wouldn't you know it, she has lots of beautiful projects for Dot Day that she's shared! Inspired by her paper line sculptures, I decided to adapt Cassie's project to include ONLY the primary, secondary and shade colors that we've learned about and used in our unit. As it was the first time I was introducing sculpture and dimension into a class project, I decided to prep materials in advance, so that my students could spend most of their time experimenting with folding and gluing. I used 9 inch square white construction paper for the background, and about an 8 inch diameter black paper circle for our main "dot." A school die cut circle block created the medium size circles in red, yellow and blue, but I also added some smaller yellow circles (after an unfortunate yet not terribly surprising spill accident) created with a paper punch. The line pieces were our secondary colors, orange, green and purple, cut into 1 inch by 12 inch strips. After rereading The Dot, reviewing our colors and color vocabulary, I modeled how to first add our primary colored dots to the black one, making sure to remind my Stars to glide their glue near-ish (see what I did there, Peter H. Reynold's fans?) to the edge so that none of the dots would curl up and away from the background. Then the creation of "feet" began, and the Stars were ~entranced~ by the folding of their secondary colored lines. When they saw the first strip of paper raised above the dot yet still attached to it, they were HOOKED. The only other instruction I gave my students was to keep the primary and secondary colored pieces of their sculpture within/inside the black dot. They loved this activity, and I suspect that I'm going to see a lot more dimension and height in their crafty creations for the remainder of the year! ***** Psst! Today's the last day to get 20% off of all of my Teachers Pay Teachers ELA and Math resources!
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