Extra Art

Making art with stencils and chalk

Make and Takes has a lesson on using pastels and stencils

Winter is Coming!

We've finished our concert artwork, and we just have a few short weeks until winter break!

 Let's celebrate the upcoming season by making 

some frosty pictures of our own!

What are some activities Peter did on the snowy day?

What will you do on a snowy day? 

1. On a 9x12 white paper draw a curved line for the snowy ground in white oil pastel.  Color the ground completely. Add snowflakes to the sky in white.

2. Imagine what you will do on a snowy day, and with colored oil pastels, draw you doing that activity.

3. Quickly brush blue watercolor over the entire paper. 

I am an Artist!--Self Portraits

Kindergarten Self-Portraits

Lesson and pictures are from Cassie Stephens' blog. Cassie Stephens is an art teacher in Nashville, TN. Click here to see the full lesson. 

The Colors of Us by Karen Katz

Instructions:

1. Students write names on 12x18 paper

2. Students trace head and neck and shoulders shape onto paper. 

3. Students paint face neck and shoulders with skin color that is most like their own. 

NEXT WEEK we will add our faces!

Clean Up: 

1.Have students put their brushes in the dirty brush bucket when they are finished. 

2.Students carry paintings to teacher, and teacher puts them in the drying rack. 

3.Students return to their seats and get rags to wash hands and clean paint off tables.

I am an Artist-These are a few of my Favorite Things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...

Today we are going to be drawing some of our favorite things. 
What are your favorite things?
Favorite animal?
Favorite food?
Favorite game?
Favorite outfit?
Favorite activity?
Favorite movie character?
Favorite season?
Favorite holiday?
Favorite people?


1.Teacher demos drawing favorite things.

2. Teacher prompts, students draw
    (see above favorites)

Circle the drawing of your most favorite thing!

Share/Reflect: Share your one very favorite thing

Thinking and Working as Artists--Paint-Artists Explore

Artists Explore

Today we are we are going to explore another way to use the tool we used last week. Explore means, to try new things, or find new ways to do something.
Today we are pulling our paint!

Mixing the two colors (use red and yellow for this lesson)

Red and yellow tempera

9x12 white paper

After students pull paint and cover paper, play video during transition:

Put out black tempera and detail brushes. 

Artists Explore:
What are you interested exploring, or learning more about?

Students paint a picture of something that they want to explore, using black paint and a detail brush. 

Photo  and lesson idea from Kindergarten Art/ Mary Ellen Picker

Thinking and Working as Artists-Printmaking

Lines Make Shapes-- PRINTING!

Be a shape detective...
What 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.

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. 

Reflect/Share:

How was printing shapes different from painting shapes? How was it the same?

Extra Art--Sculpture

Pipe Cleaner Sculpture

Today we are making a sculpture with clay, pipe cleaners and beads. 

Sculpture is three-dimensional. It has height, width, and depth. You can look at it from many sides and it stands up and is not flat. 

What kind of sculpture can you make using clay, pipe cleaners and beads?

1. Roll clay base into a ball, and flatten just a little bit so it makes a good base. 

2. Choose pipe cleaners to add to your sculpture. 

3. Press an end of a pipe cleaner into the clay base.

4. Bend and twist the wire, adding a few beads as you go.

5. Add pipe cleaners one at a time, carefully adding beads and pushing wire into the clay base. 

Thinking and Working as Artists-Sculpture

Making a Paper Playground Sculpture:

Today we are going to make a paper sculpture of a playground. Sculpture is three-dimensional. You can see it from many sides because it stands up from the base. 

Think about last time you played on a playground...

What were some of your favorite things to play on?

photo from RaisingArizonaKids.com

Playgrounds: 

Look for lines and shapes as you watch!

Paper sculpture techniques:

Roll

Pleat 

Fringe

Extra Art-Invitation to Create: Monsters

This week during extra art we are making monsters! 
We are using skills we have learned about in previous lessons, such as cutting, arranging and gluing with control.

View entire lesson at Cutting Tiny Bites

1. Have students round the corners of a square and rectangle to make a circle and an oval for the head and body.
2. Students will cut paper and arrange shapes to make a monster.
3. Glue down to paper, wipe away any extra glue with a paper towel.

Extra Art--What's your Name?

Name Mosaic

Lesson and Image from splishsplashsplatterart.blogspot.com

1. Write name in pencil on black paper
2. (Review Glue Procedures from last week) Glue squares along lines
3. Make sure to only use one dot of glue for each square!
4. Wipe away any extra glue 

Play while working for fun!
What's your Name?

Thinking and Working As Artists-Creating Shapes

2 Techniques for Painting Shapes-

Painting with Blobs and Outlines

August Light, Hans Hoffmann

What shapes do you see?

How do you think the artist moved his arm to make these shapes? 

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

Painting 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.

We like the Shapes!

Extra Art-Working as Artists-Using a Template

Tracing lines and Shapes

What geometric shapes do you see in these paintings?

What kinds of lines do you see? 

You can make a picture with straight lines and geometric shapes using templates.

Lesson and Pictures from:
http://www.craftykidsathome.com


1. Use cardboard to make straight lines and circle templates to trace circles.

2. Color shapes with Oil Pastel

Thinking and Working as Artists--Making a Collage

Creating a Collage





Today, we are going to make a collage. 
A collage is a picture made by gluing items to a surface. 
To make a collage, we need to be able to use glue with control.

Using glue with control

Meet Gus, the Glue bottle

1. To openthe glue bottle, twist the orange cap until the white dot disappears

       

2.Turn him upside down and softly squeeze his tummy.  

3.One small squeeze will make one little dot.

4.To close the bottle, twist the orange cap until you see the white dot.

5.Wipe any extra glue off the top with a paper towel.

Practice making baby dots...
on practice sheets

Making a Collage

1.  2.

3.  4.

Finished!

Share/Reflect:

Where should the tip of the glue bottle be when you squeeze it to glue?

How do you clean up extra glue?

Describe your collage...

Extra Art Working as Artists--Bean Mosaics

A mosaic is a picture made of a lot of tiny parts. 

Mosaics were originally made out of tiles, but artists today make mosaics out of many things!  Today we are going to make bean mosaics! 

My son Seth and his bean Pikachu! Now he can make a background out of beans too.

Demonstrate making a bean mosaic. 

1. Have students line up and get cardboard and a sharpie
2. Students write their name on the cardboard. 
3. Turn cardboard over so that name is on the back. 
4. Distribute glue and paintbrushes.
5. Students work independently creating a bean mosaic. 
6. When students finish, have them pick up any stray beans, and sort all their beans, so that the cups are organized for the next classs. 
7. Have students leave their work on their tables, and have them come to the carpet to watch the video (If there is time.)
8. After the video, have students return to their seats and stand behind their chair. Remind students to hold their work flat as they line up.
9. Students may take their bean mosaics home. 

Original Lesson on ReggioArtRoomBlogspot.com

Bean Mosaic 1
Bean Mosaic 2

Thinking and Working as Artists-Meet the Paintbrush

Painting at Last!!!
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.
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

• 2 sizes of tempera brushes
• 12x18 paper

Paint:

Long straight line, leave a space, paint another

Curved line

Wavy line

Zig-zag

Dashed line

Clean Up:

1. Set brush in tray
2. Carry painting to teacher (by the drying rack)
3. Carry paintbrush to the sink, and put in brush bucket
4. Wipe hands and table with rag or sponge
5. Come to carpet and choose a book

Ma Lien and the Magic Brush, Hisako Kimishima

Extra Art- Thinking and Working as Artists-Artists Use Their Imaginations

Using Our Imagination, 

What Can We Make With Ten Black Dots?

Thinking and Working as Artists-Tearing and Cutting Paper

Paper Play! 

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:

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

Cutting Paper

Artists use scissors 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?

Thinking and Working as Artists-Crayon Techniques

What can I do with a 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 to make a crayon

What is unusual about how the artist used crayon in this drawing? 

Beverly Buchanan, Monroe County House with Yellow Datura

Today, we are going to explore and discover 

       what we can do with crayons!

• Two ways to hold a crayon, tip and side
• Changing pressure 
• Layering colors

Share/Reflect:

Describe some of the lines made with crayons.

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

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

Thinking and Working as Artists- Arranging Shapes

Arranging Shapes

We can identify shapes

What can you make with shapes?

Adding details 

Share/Reflect: 

What shapes did you use in your art?

How did you decide what you you were going to make?

Did you choose to draw on your paper? Why?

Extra Art: Lesson 1 Crayons

What can you do with a Purple Crayon?

 

Share: What did you make with your purple crayon?