Making Art from Natural Materials

 Artists work with Natural Materials

Materials for making art are all around us!

Some artists make art from natural materials.

• Intro, Watch first part of 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?

                                        

         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? 

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?

Welcome to Kindergarten Art!

 

Introduction to Art

Students come in and stand on line. Quick Greeting-

This year you will have a special place to sit when you come to 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.

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, 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.

Next we are going to listen to a book about a girl named Regina who learns a lot about what it means to be an artist. Who felt brave today coming to school? Artists are brave. In the story Regina learns what it means to be brave when making art.

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 ?

Materials:
Paper

pencil

crayons

glue stick

paper shapes/newspaper

google eyes (1 set)

Clean up expectations:
Clean up song:

1. Silent/no talking

2. Everyone should help clean up their table

3.Put your head down

Art Song

 

What did you make?

What drawing materials did you use?

*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.

Line Up Time.

Practice line up expectations.

Quiet

Feet on tape

Facing forward