Kindergarten Art at Festus Elementary

Monday, December 11, 2017

What kind of things do you like to make with

Play Doh?

The Largest Play doh sculpture is the size of a real car

You can roll out a sphere and add on or flatten it to make your sculpture

You can use a stick to press in eyes, textures and designs.

You can roll out a long coil to make letters
or a coil pot

Happy, Sad, Angry, or Surprised?

A person's expression shows you how they are feeling.

Draw 4 Circles with eyes and noses

Draw an different mouth for each face

Draw a window around each face

Are your people on a submarine, a school bus, a sleigh, an suv, a train, or something else?

Making Art with Watercolor and a Little Bit of Crayon

Kindergarten students choose their subject, and create a drawing using Sharpie markers.

Students can add details or color some areas in crayon

Students paint carefully with watercolor, remembering to wash their brushes between colors.

Share Time/Reflection-Discuss with a Friend or Two:

1. What is your favorite part of your work?

2. What would you change about your work?

3. What did you learn from working with watercolor paint?

What Magic can you make with 3 Popsicle Sticks, Paper Strips and Oil Pastel

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:

Day 1 Background

Day 2 Draw Face

Cut out

Glue down

Paint Hair

Day 3 Cut out Shirt
Glue down
Draw small Drawing

Today you are going to design a picture that could be used on the Christmas music program!

The themes this year are:

Santa, Elves, Reindeer, Clocks, and Dance Party

Have students try recall the names of some of their songs for their music program.
Talk about the above themes and how to make art that can be used on the cover of them music program. (It must be drawn in pencil, traced in sharpie, and the pencil marks erased afterward.
Demonstrate on paper taped to whiteboard, how to draw christmas themed subjects using basic shapes. Demo. tracing lines with a sharpie so that they know not to color with it.
Remind students to draw a background...is it outside on the rooftop, at the North Pole, or by a Christmas tree? What are the characters doing?
Distribute papers and pencils. Have students write their name on the back.
Play Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as they get settled in. They may sing along :)
Pencil, Trace Lines carefully with sharpie, and erase pencil marks.