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

Working as Artists: Paper Playground Sculpture

 

Artists at Work: Kindergarten Playground Sculptures

 Making a Paper Playground Sculpture:

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.

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. 

When we make paper sculpture, we cut, fold, curl and glue the paper to make it stand. 

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

What were some of your favorite things to play on?

Paper sculpture techniques:

Roll

Accordian Fold 

Fringe

Lesson Demonstration

Artists at Work: Crayons!

 What can I do with a crayon?

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.

Experiment with Crayon Techniques: Using the tip and side of the crayon, and creating a rubbing using 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 crayons are Made-Mr. Rogers

How to make a crayon video link

5:49-11:52

Let's try some different ways we can 

 use our crayons!

Materials needed:

Crayons

2 or 3 of broken, peeled crayons

2 half sheets of copy paper

Small piece of consruction paper and stickers

Video Lesson

The Day the Crayons Quit

Artists at Work: Making Art With Natural Materials

 Artists work with Natural Materials

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

A. Play & Ideation

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials

Materials for making art are all around us!

Some artists make art from natural materials.

What are NATURAL MATERIALS? 
Materials from NATURE that we can use to make art.

examples include: rocks, sticks, leaves, flowers, grasses, feathers, clay etc.

• Intro, Watch the first part of the 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?

Rhonda's Rock Hunt

Scribble Stones

                                        

         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? 
Materials from nature that we can use to make art.

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?

Introduction to Art Class: Kindergarten Lesson

  Introduction to Art

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 draw, collage, 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 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 ? Can you glue down shapes to make a picture?

Use your imagination to make something beautiful.

Materials:
Paper

pencil

crayons

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?

How were you brave when you made your art? 

What did you do when you made a mistake?

*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.

                                                              Art Songs for the end of class

Line Up Time.

Practice line up expectations.

Quiet

Feet on tape

Facing forward

Kindergarten Self-Portraits

 

All About Me

 Kindergarten Self-Portraits

A self-portrait is a picture made by the artist. 

Today the artist is you! 

Instructions Day 1 :

Intro. Video

Demo Video-Drawing a self-portrait:

Draw Face and Trace in Sharpie

Materials:

12x18 white paper

pencil & eraser

Mirror

Sharpie

Intro Video: Self-Portraits

At the end of this book we will the intro video we will self-portraits painted by famous artists.

Self-Portrait Demo.