First Day of Art

  Introduction to KINDERGARTEN Art

Routines

Teaching hallway behavior in the hall. "Two feet, one square, facing forward. Zero Voices, Listening ears." 

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

This year you will have a special place to sit when you come to our art into the art room. 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, reminding them to sit quietly 

Welcome to art class! We are going to have an exciting year together in art, full of discovery
and art making. We make many kinds of art using a lot of different art supplies. We are going to learn
what it means to be an artist and how to work like an artist because we are all artists.

The purpose of today's art lesson is to:

Teach growth mindset by modeling turning accidental tears, smears, or scribbles into creative art. It's OK to make a mistake. A mistake is an adventure in creativity! Yay for mistakes! Often they help us come up with new ideas and be more creative :)

• Listen to author Barney Saltzberg sing : Beautiful Oops! aloud, point out how stains, rips, and folds become interesting creatures. 

Talk About Feelings: Ask students how they feel when they make a mistake on their work, and discuss how we can work with our mistakes and the feelings that come with them, instead of giving up. 

Watch Barney Saltzberg demonstrate how mistakes can lead to creative solutions: Video- demonstrate an oops and have students make several suggestions for an "oops" Ask how they feel when they are creating from an "oops"

Pass Out "Oops" Paper: Give each student an oops paper

Transform the Mistake: Have students use markers or crayons to turn the random mark into an animal, monster, or object or something interesting or beautiful. 

Song/Book

Barney Saltzberg begin at 3:28

Clean up expectations:
Clean up song:

1. Silent/no talking/whisper voices

2. Everyone should help clean up their table

Throughout class, teach body positioning when listening. 

Teach students what listening looks like

Teach 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 Songs for the end of class

Line Up Time.

Practice line up expectations.

Quiet

Feet on tape

Facing forward

Table dismissal

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

Invitation to Create: Monsters-Where the Wild Things Are

 This week we will read a beloved story, Where The Wild Things Are

This book has inspired children for decades to imagine a magical place full of fantastic creatures.

After reading the story, we will use our imaginations to create our own beasts and monsters.

Supplies:
Paper
Markers & Crayons
Construction paper (red & white)
Glue

Video for instructions

Working as Artists: Painting Shapes

 With a Paintbrush We Can Create Shapes.

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.

How do you think this artist moved his brush to create these shapes?

August Light, Hans Hoffmann

What shapes do you see?

A brushstroke is the mark a paintbrush makes.

Can you tell if the artist was painting a shape with up and down brushstrokes or side to side brushstrokes?

2 ways to create shapes:

Blob Method

• Dip brush in water to water
• Load your brush with paint
• Move the paint up and down, or back and forth until you have a shape that resembles a square.

Outline Method

• Paint two vertical lines. 
• Cross them with two horizontal lines so that you have a square.
• Fill the square with paint. Demonstrate both methods of painting another shape, such as a circle or a triangle.

Paint the white spaces, leave the shapes so we can see them.

Remember to rinse and wipe the brush.

• Give students tiny brushes and black tempera to paint on top of their shapes.

Art talk questions:

1. Did you paint shapes in different sizes?

2. Did you paint any geometric shapes? How about free-form shapes?

Shape song and Show

Supplies:
Paper
Paint (tempera, cake tempera, watercolors)
If you don't use paint, markers, crayons or oil pastels can be used)

Thinking and Working as Artists: Chalk Pastel

 

Thinking and Working as Artists-Chalk Pastel

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.

What happens when you put one color on top of another?

What happens when you blend with your finger?

What happens when you press harder/lighter when you color with a pastel?

What can I do with a Chalk Pastel?

A chalk pastel is made from a powdery substance that is used for drawing and comes in many different colors.

Chalk pastels are like cousins to sidewalk chalk. 

Chalk pastels have a soft look, and can be blended easily.

Mary Cassatt-Little Girl in a Big Hat

On the Cliff-Theodore Robinson

Lynn Morgan-The OrangeWoods

Today we are going to explore and discover how to use chalk pastels!

• Two ways to hold a pastel, tip and side
• Changing pressure 
• Layering colors
• Blending with one finger

Technique Video for Chalk Pastels

Supplies:

-A few sticks of colored chalk, sidewalk chalk or chalk pastels.

-Your printmaking project from last week or a drawing done with a black marker or black paint.

Thinking and Working as Artists: Printmaking

 Thinking and Working as Artists-Printmaking

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.

How is printing different than painting?

Can you think of something else you could dip in paint to make a print?

Lines Make Shapes-- PRINTING!

Be a shape detective...
What geometric shapes can you find in these pictures?

How might you print these shapes with the straight line tool? 

Where a Line Bends a Shape Begins 

(Play before shape discussion)

Printing shapes with a straight line tool.

Video of printmaking techniques

What motion do you make when you print?
What motion do you make when you paint?

1. Demonstrate making basic geometric shapes. 

2. Have students practice first without paint to understand how to place their printing tool.

3. Students may get a second sheet of paper to create their own composition, or they may continue on with their first. 

Have students identify geometric shapes in their art. 

Supplies:

- Tempera paint

- Paper

- Cardboard pieces

Working as Artists: Meet the Paintbrush

  Painting at Last!!!

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.

Today, we are going to become friends with our paintbrush.
We are going to learn different ways to hold and control the marks we make with this new tool.

Every painting begins with a brushstroke. A brushstroke is a mark made by a paintbrush.
What kinds of brushstrokes do you see in these paintings?

Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled

Franz Kline, Mahoning

Exploring the Paintbrush, how to hold, and control movement:

• parts of paintbrush--bristle, ferrule, handle

• how to hold a paintbrush

• Children locate shoulder, elbow wrist and finger, hold joint with free hand. Pretend to paint in air moving each joint. Notice how the length of the brushstroke changes.

Artists at Work:
Guided Practice Video

Paint:
Long straight line, leave a space, paint another
Curved line
Wavy line
Zig-zag
Dashed line

Ma Lien and the Magic Brush, Hisako Kimishima