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 make art in many ways. We will draw, collage (cut and glue), 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 you will begin to create a piece of art....
First step is to get an idea-you have to think of what you want to make
Envision...we are going to come up with an idea and picture it in our mind
You are the artist, you are your own person, with your own ideas-
What are you going to make?
Ask yourself:
-what is your favorite thing in the world?
-what do you find beautiful?
-what makes you happy?
Distribute Supplies Make a picture of something you pictured in your mind. You can draw, or you can glue down shapes to make a picture.
Use your imagination to make something beautiful or interesting!
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.
Artists have made art out of clay for a very long time, and have made many different kinds of objects using their hands to pinch, pull, poke and smooth the clay.
How can you use your hands to change the shape of clay?
Distribute Clay
Students explore squeezing, poking, and pinching and pulling the clay.
Questions/Observations: How is clay similar/different than play-doh? Compare how it looks, feels, and smells.
Part II. Making and Joining forms
Demonstrate how to make a few simple forms
Show students how to temporarily join the forms by pressing the clay together.
Artists are very creative people and can come up with lots of ways to make art, even if they don't have a lot of supplies.
Have you ever used something that isn't an art supply to make art? Maybe cardboard, masking tape, a sock, leaves...
This week we can explore that idea by making our very own clay! The best part is it only uses 2 ingredients that many people have at home, Flour and Hair Conditioner. Watch this video...
Recipe:
1/2 cup Flour (or cornstarch)
4 Tbl. Hair conditioner (or lotion)
If you enjoyed this activity, there are many other recipes for making clay. I found several by doing a search for 'air dry clay'. Don't forget to share pictures of your creations on our Facebook Page!
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.
