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You can grab these geometric art printable...and let your kids imaginations run wild! A perfect free printable to let the creativity flow.
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Plenty of interactive ideas and activities to teach landforms for kids. Find videos, worksheets and even experiments to help.
Negative leaf print by one of my second grade students earlier this year. Hey, guys! This post has been very popular on my blog...if you are interested in other leaf-y projects, look at my Leaf Relief project and my Pressed Leaf Project as well. Thanks! I don't know what it's like where you live, but here in Tennessee, we are experiencing spring-like weather. For the most part. I mean it did snow the last two Saturdays (and, in Tennessee, "snow" means just a few flakes and a couple of inches) but the other day it was 78 degrees. Crazy, right? For that reason, I've got touch of spring fever. You too? Well then you might enjoy this leafy printmaking project I did at the beginning of the year with my second graders. It's simple, scientific, beautiful and fun...okay, enough talking about me (!), on with the lesson. For this project, you'll need the following: gelatin, not Jell-o. Most grocery stores carry a brand called Knox which sells in boxes of 16 pouches. cookie sheets printmaking brayer, sold at most craft stores printing ink variety of leaves paper Print pulled from the same printing tray, this time the positive version. The night before you begin, you'll need to prepare your sheets of gelatin. To do that, bring about 3-4 cups of water to a boil. Once boiling, whisked one pouch of gelatin into the pot. You don't want any clumps of gelatin, so whisk like there's no tomorrow. You'll end up adding about 12-15 pouches of gelatin into that one pot. Sorry, I'm not into exact measurements. Which could explain a lot about my cooking. If there are any remaining unwhiskable clumps, remove them with a spoon. Pour mixture into a cookie sheet filling it about 1". Leave uncovered over night. If you see any bubbles in the cookie sheet, pop them or remove with a spoon. For my class of 20 students, I made three trays. Pulling the first print always managed to get oohhhh's and aahhhh's aplenty. The following day, we were ready to print. The surface of the gelatin was squishy yet very firm, perfect for holding our printing ink. I think I can explain this best in steps, so here you go: Using a brayer and printing ink, cover surface of gelatin in ink. Place leaves onto the ink-covered cookie sheet with the veiny side down. I don't recommend using anything with pine needles because that will puncture the gelatin. But experiment, you never know! Once leaves are in place, lay paper on top of cookie sheet and rub (er, we call it "massage") the paper. Pull paper off, as you see in the above photo, and viola! You have your first print! Notice how clear the gelatin looks. All of the ink that was once on the tray is now on the paper. I love her dainty fingers pulling up the second print. So sweet. Now for the second print: Gently remove all of the leaves from the tray. It's best to pull them out by the end of the stem. Place a new sheet of paper over the now-empty cookie sheet and rub. Pull second print which will be a positive image of the first. Looks like a black and white photo, don't you think? Once both prints have been pulled, re-ink the tray and begin the process all over again. With a class of 20 students and 3 pans of gelatin, about 10 kids were able to print per half an hour class. The pans of gelatin can last about two days with an endless amount of printing. I tried to cover the gelatin and keep it for a little longer, but condensation droplets created strange little craters on the surface. If left uncovered for too many days, it begins to dry and crack. For that reason, if you plan to do this project for longer than a couple of days, you'll just need to prepare more gelatin pans the night before. Our second go-round of printing involved using white ink on black paper. Just as pretty. This project is so easy and the results so stunning that everyone is successful. I've now had a couple of craft get-togethers and this is always a hit. Once those leaves start growing in your neck of the woods, I do hope you'll give it a shot! I love the photo negative quality of this print.
Today I'll be showing you my favourite neckline finish for knit fabrics. It's my personal method for sewing knit neckline bindings, and I prefer it to the standard method!
Teaching states of matter in kindergarten can be a tricky! Here are some resources to help students gain a solid understanding of the topic!
This is a project that I came up with a couple years ago and have had great success with. I have only done it with sixth graders and it does take a long time to complete, but I was very happy with the results. I suggest giving this one a whirl if you want a long lasting project with some great discussion, drawing, and watercolor painting. I start this project talking with the students about self portraits. I ask the students, what is a self portrait? In every class, students responded with "a picture of yourself." This was perfect to start our discussion. I ask them if it has to be a picture of yourself, could it be anything else? What about a picture of your foot? Or arm? Does it have to be a painting? Can it be a drawing or photograph? This is when it got interesting. Many students were troubled when asked if it could be a photograph. I then asked them if a musician could make a self portrait through their music? I saw light bulbs start going off and the "ah-ha" moments started happening. Within seconds, students were saying things like "I think a self portrait can be anything about you." This is the response I was looking for. We talked and the discussion continued as I began a slide show. I showed self portraits in the following order Rembrandt, VanGogh, Marc Chagall, M.C. Escher, Chuck Close, and Cameron Gray. The order of these portraits went from a very traditional portrait in realism and got increasingly abstract and less focused on the actual representation of the face. The way in which artists began to portray themselves became more and more about the way in which they did as opposed to the resulting portrait...the process over the product. The students were hooked. They were quite interested and were curious where our new project was headed. I explained to them that we were going to make our own self portraits, not based on what we looked like but based on who we are. We would be focusing on our hands, which are so very important in our art endeavors. We were going to learn some sign language so that we could use our hands to portray our initials, after all, our given names are a huge part of who we are. We would then be drawing our hands in the sign language poses for our initials. In the second class, I gave each student a piece of scrap paper and a sign language alphabet handout. I told them to pose their non dominant hand as one of their initials and try their best to draw it. I gave no instruction or help, just wanted them to give it their best try. Many of them struggled and almost all had draw a hand 1/2 the size of their real hand. After about 7-8 minutes of this, we talked about how hard it was and I brought them over for a demonstration in which i broke the hand up into more manageable shapes and showed them how to measure things and determine approximate angles using their pencils. They went back to their tables and tried again. The second round was much better but many still struggled. I explained to them to just try their best and that next week I would show them an easier "almost cheating" way to draw an amazing hand. When students came in for the third class they were very excited about this "cheating" way to draw. I gave a demonstration on how we were going to use special stiff transparencies to "trace" over our hands. In order to use the transparency easily, you can not simply place it over your hand and draw because it is not a flat surface, so I told the students that we were going to get comfy and relax a little today in art class...everyone got to put their feet up on the table to draw. I told them not to tell any of the other grades otherwise they would all be super jealous haha. By putting your feet up on the table while sitting in a chair, you can place your signing hand in your lap between your thighs and rest the transparency on both your legs and on your hand so that it is much more stable. We then used Visa-Vi transperency markers to carefully "trace" our hand underneath the clear plastic. I made a big deal about our heads not moving while drawing. I had students sit in their drawing position and stare at their hand. I then told them to move their head about 3-4 inches to one side of the other and to notice how much the perspective changed which parts of their hands they could see. So with statue like stillness, the drawing began, making sure to draw all the creases, folds, scars, fingernails, and details that made their hand their own. After drawing it out on the transparency, I asked students to look on the sign language alphabet sheet and tell me which hand was the one used to sign. It is the right hand, but seeing that the majority of my students are right handed they had posed their left hand for the drawing. I told them not to worry as Mr. Malcore had a way to fix this. I handed out drawing paper for them to transfer their drawing on to and told all the right handed students that we would simply flip our transparency over to give us a right hand. Luckily I have a bunch of great windows in my room that we used as tracing tables and the students transferred their hand drawings to their drawing paper. We continued this until all initials were complete. In the following class, we talked about value and shading. I gave a demonstration on how to shade a hand with pencil to make it appear three dimensional and more life like. We talked about how anything that is further from your eye tends to be somewhat darker. This is especially true when dealing with rounded or contoured shapes and forms like fingers. The edges of each finger appear slightly darker or more shaded as they angle back around the backside of the finger, thus get further from the eye. I demonstrated how to blend and how to cross hatch. I then passed out a sheet with two contour hand drawings on it. Students were to practice shading on these hands before trying it on their own. I told them to create a gray scale on the top of the paper first, making their pencil lead as dark as possible and lightening it into the white of the paper. I told them that a well shaded hand drawing will have the darkest dark, the lightest light, and most shades of gray in between. Once all of their initials were shaded, we began talking about backgrounds. For the self portrait backgrounds, I told the students that we were going to watercolor paint some sort of scene or image that told the viewer something about yourself, your personality, or what you like to do. I left it pretty open so that the kids could turn it into whatever they wanted, after all, it is their self portrait. I am lucky enough to have a computer for student use in my room which helped students find images and ideas for things to draw. They drew everything out in pencil first. I gave a demonstration on watercolor painting and talked about how important planning is to making a good watercolor. I gave on demonstration on wet-on-dry and wet-on-wet watercolor painting and the students LOVED the wet-on-wet, especially when mixing lots of colors to get the tie dye effect. Students worked for a few weeks on planning and painting their backgrounds. Once finished, we cut out the hand drawings and used 3-D O's (little foam mounting risers) to put on the backs of the hands to give them a more 3-D look and fixed them to the backgrounds. It took a long time to complete but the students were very proud and they turned out great. Lots of different learning going on here, I highly recommend this one, give it a try and if you have questions please ask.
This one page drawing exercise encourages students to think creatively. I use this exercise as a part of senior sketchbook exercises. Two versions of the file are included - one with media instructions, one without (so that you can have the students use whatever media you would like). This product is now available in: French https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Draw-the-Alphabet-FRENCH-Creativity-Exercise-7032208 Spanish https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Draw-the-Alphabet-SPANISH-Creativity-Exercise-7032200
I’ve been thinking a lot about identity recently. The question ‘who am I?’ has come up repeatedly over the years, and every time it comes round again I find something I’ve n…
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HALT! Bevor du denkst, „Wie bidde? Und was ist mit der medizinischen Kompressionsversorgung? Was ist das denn hier jetzt?“, atme bitte einmal kurz durch. Wir kennen sie doch alle, die Momente im Leben, wo du einfach nicht, wie sonst, galant und gekonnt in deine Kompression hüpfst, sondern frustriert nach etlichen Anläufen aufgibst und dann eben keine trägst. Nach dem Schwimmen, an einem faulen Sonntag, wenn du dir eine Verletzung an einem Finger zugezogen hast, du beim Yoga einfach keine Luft mehr bekommst, wenn richtige Kompressionsversorgung noch in der Wäsche herumdümpelt oder sie noch in einer Anpassungsschleife hängt. Ganz ehrlich, ich, Caroline – die Power Sprotte, habe auch solche Momente. Zwar selten, aber ich sollte eh mal öfter schwimmen gehen … und bevor du jetzt ganz ohne Kompression dastehst, kann die Bankl, die „Besser als nix"-Kompressions-Leggings, dir wenigstens ein wenig Halt geben, bis die medizinische Versorgung wieder das Ruder übernehmen kann. Wie es der Name eben so sagt, sie ist immer noch besser als nix. Achtung: Bitte mit Vorsicht und ohne große Gewalteinwirkung anziehen, vor allem im "V-Bereich" gilt Vorsicht geboten. Aus zu starkem Zug entstandene Beschädigungen können nicht reklamiert werden.
Sometimes I like to think that Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities saved my life, but it might be more accurate to say it saved my mind. I was working a tedious job at my college over one summer…
Self-portrait ideas around the topic "Identity" or "Personality" but I could also work for general descriptive adjectives lesson as well.
No, your scone is NOT supposed to be a sad dry heap of useless carbs! The best scones are crispy on the edges and tender in the middle. They are buttery, flaky, perfectly moist pieces of breakfast perfection that are surprisingly easy to make with a few tips. Don't let the sad coffeehouse selections fool you into thinking you don't like scones. You just haven't tried this recipe yet!
I use the word Distress loosely, It’s one of those blanket terms for “scrape, scratch, hurt, dent, damage, chip” when referring to paint…. you get the idea.So,…
Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. Support the corporate identity, enrich the visual appearance and is compatible with the overall design. However, usually there are simply too many options you can consider, which is why you need time to find the option you are most comfortable with. Although the choice usually depends on clients' requirements, it is necessary to have some pretty starting points for your font decision.
Explore different materials and their properties with this engaging unit. Activities and printables for the Foundation and Prep Year chemistry strand.
I often get a question from my readers - how to sew straight? In this guide, I will show you how to easily keep stitching lines straight. I will talk about topstitching mostly because keeping seam allowances equal is a different topic. Have you ever had problems with crooked stitching lines? I bet you had. Even intermediate sewists are struggling sometimes to do it and had to rip and redo stitching. But sewing in a straight line is much simpler than you think. And I want to help you to sew straight every time.
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