Paper Play-Cutting and Tearing Paper

 Paper Play! 

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials

Create

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

A. Skill Acquisition

Through experimentation on, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.

Tearing Paper
Artists sometimes use their hands to tear paper. 
What kind of shapes do you see?
Why do you think this artist used torn shapes? 

from Leo Lionni's book Frederick

Paper tearing: Using your hands as tools to change the shape of paper

• With the grain
• Against the grain
• Finger position
• Tearing a Line
• Tearing a Shape
   

    

Video for tearing and cutting

Cutting Video

Cutting Paper

Artists use scissors as tools to change the shape of paper.  

How can you tell that the artist cut these shapes with scissors?
What shapes do you see?

The Snail by Henri Matisse

Cutting Shapes:

• Using Scissors
  -safety-how to hold
  -scissors poem
• Cutting squares, rectangles, and triangles
  -using more than one strategy

Arranging Shapes: 

What will you think about as you arrange your shapes? 

Try several arrangements

Dog made by Kindergarten student

Share Time/Reflection:
What two ways can you make shapes with paper? 
What kind of shapes can you make by tearing? cutting? 
Which method to you enjoy most?

Kindergarten- Crayons

 

 What can I do with a crayon?

Create

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

A. Skill Acquisition

Through experimentation on, build skills in various media and approaches to art making.

Experiment with Crayon Techniques: Using the tip and side of the crayon, and creating a rubbing using crayon

As artists we will discover many ways to use materials in the art room. 

What is a crayon, and how is it made?

How crayons are Made-Mr. Rogers

How to make a crayon video link

5:49-11:52

Let's try some different ways we can 

 use our crayons!

Materials needed:

Crayons

2 or 3 of broken, peeled crayons

2 half sheets of copy paper

Small piece of consruction paper and a few small squares of construction paper

glue stick

Video Lesson

The Day the Crayons Quit

Daniel Tiger-The Crayon Dance

Artists Work with Natural Materials

 Artists work with Natural Materials

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials

Materials for making art are all around us!

Some artists make art from natural materials.

What are NATURAL MATERIALS? 
Materials from NATURE that we can use to make art.

examples include: rocks, sticks, leaves, flowers, grasses, feathers, clay etc.

• Intro, Watch the first part of the video
• Pass out rocks, students sort rocks
• Video part 2, Students arrange their rocks to create pictures, stories, etc.
• Book
• 

    

Reflect/Share:

How did you decide to sort your rocks? 

How did you decide to arrange your rocks?

Rhonda's Rock Hunt

Scribble Stones

                                        

         original lesson 8/24/16

                Artmaking Using Natural Materials

Materials for making art are all around us!

Some artists make art from natural materials.

What are natural materials? 
Materials from nature that we can use to make art.

Can you tell what natural materials these artists used to make their art?

Arranging Stones

Explore the Materials:

• Special stones
• How many ways can you think of to sort the stones?
• Describe arrangement and title work.

Reflect/Share:

How did you decide to sort your rocks? 

Did you work alone or with a  partner/ as a table?

How did you decide to arrange your rocks?

Introduction to Kindergarten Art

 Introduction to Art

Students come in and stand on the line. Quick Greeting-

This year you will have a special place to sit when you come to our art class.I'm going to show you those special places now.

I want you to listen for your name. When you hear your name come over to me.

Sit in your special place. I will point to it.

Seat students

Welcome to art class! We are going to have an exciting year together in art, full of discovery
and art making. We will draw, collage, paint, and make sculpture. We are going to learn
what it means to be an artist and how to work like an artist because we are all artists.

Now we are going to create some art....

Think about something beautiful (Envision)
-think about something you love
-what do you think is really cool?
Can you draw a picture of that ? Can you glue down shapes to make a picture?

Use your imagination to make something beautiful.

Materials:
Paper

pencil

crayons

glue stick

paper shapes/newspaper

google eyes (1 set)

Clean up expectations:
Clean up song:

1. Silent/no talking/whisper voices

2. Everyone should help clean up their table

3.Put your head down

 

What did you make?

What drawing materials did you use?

How were you brave when you made your art? Did you try something new?

*Remind students to raise their hand and wait to be called on.

In school, we are respectful by raising our hands when we have something to say.

Thank individual students for being respectful and raising their hands.

                                                                            Art Song

Line Up Time.

Practice line up expectations.

Quiet

Feet on tape

Facing forward

Sewing-Learning the Running Stitch

 

Sewing Cards

 Sewing Cards

Practicing the running stitch 

Introduction to Fibers

 

What is Sewing?

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials

All over the world, you will find people sewing.

People sew to create useful objects like clothes, blankets and shoes.

People sew to create beautiful objects like rugs, quilts and toys.

Sewing can be useful AND beautiful.

Today we are going to explore sewing in three stations.

We can explore some fabric we use for sewing, called BURLAP

We can explore the string we use for sewing called YARN

We can try to tie a knot, a skill we will need to learn for sewing.

Video:

Pulling burlap apart

This fabric is called burlap. It is a good fabric to begin to learn how to sew on because it is easy to see the holes. Fabric is made from thread woven together in a pattern. Sometimes the fabric has a tight weave and it is hard to see the threads. Sometimes fabric has a loose weave and you can see the individual threads that make up the fabric. Burlap has a loose weave. Lets try to take apart the burlap so we can learn how the fabric is made, and it's fun!

Pull a piece of thread off the edge of the burlap. Pull another. Can you pull a thread from the middle of the fabric? As you pull the threads, place them in your basket.

Snipping yarn

Yarn is the thread we will use for sewing. Yarn can come in many exciting colors and textures. Sweaters and blankets are often made from yarn.

We are going to practice snipping yarn. We should learn to cut the yarn not too close to the hole where the yarn comes out, or the yarn will disappear. If that happens to you, you can open the jar and thread it back through the hole in the lid.

It is fun to snip yarn. 

As you snip yarn, collect the pieces in your basket.

Tying Knots

Knots are important to learn for many sewing projects. A knot stops your stitches from pulling out. Learning how to tie may also help you with other things like tying shoes.

Lay the rope out flat. 

Bring the two ends up and cross

Take the tip of the rope on top and bring it down through the hole. 

Pull tight.

Untie it and try it again. Make sure you leave it untied for the next person.

If you can tie a know using the rope, you may want to try tying many knots in a piece of yarn.

James Rizzi Cityscapes (sub plan)

 James Rizzi is an artist who lived in New York City. His cartoonish Pop Art style is interesting and fun to look at. He loved the excitement of New York city and that most definitely shows in his art!

James Rizzi Art

Art Tutorial