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.