Virtual Classroom

Monday, September 9, 2024

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?





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