Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Cupcakes on Display!
My first batch of cupcakes have been created and are on display in the showcase next to the office. Make sure you check out these tasty sculptures created by my art students in Mrs. Linsmeyer's 2nd grade class.
Classroom Famous Artists
I decided to start the new year by recognizing my elementary art students each month for their hard work, care, pride and creativity they demonstrate in their art. These seven students had artwork and work ethic that caught my eye for the month of January. Congratulations to my first group of students!
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Crazy Busy Art Room
I have decided to change the name of my blog due to some exciting future events that will be taking place in my life. Now don't worry. Same blog. Same great descriptive lessons with plenty of examples and for those of you that I have interacted with same Sara humor. Just a new name. :)
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| Sometimes happiness has no words! |
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Autumn Tree Collage
Third Grade
2 day lesson
Materials:
12 x 18 inch blue or gray construction paper
4 x 18 inch green paper
3 x 9 inch white paper
Scrap construction paper
Glue
Scissors
Black sharpie markers
Day 1:
Demonstrate to students how to create the horizon line using the green paper. I have students cut a curve line along the length of the paper to give the horizon line more interest in the composition.
Using the white paper, students may cut out clouds and add them to their sky if they desire.
Next, using scrap construction paper or if you rather have pre-cut squares of paper in sizes ranging from 5 x 5 inches to 3 x 3 inches, have students select autumn colors and cut paper into shapes that remind them of tree forms.
Students should glue these pieces above the horizon line, so it looks like they are floating in the air. I recommended to students to glue 9 to 10 pieces on their paper. Overlapping guidelines were discussed as well as size relevance in relation to foreground, middle ground and background. I encourage students to play and think about the pieces in the composition before gluing them down.
Day 2:
Demonstrate to students how to create tree trunks with a sharpie marker. We discussed that the trees in the foreground would have a longer tree trunk than the trees in the background.
After trunks were in place, students were given a handout on Zentangles. Students used this handout as inspiration for their own ideas. Students were encouraged to come up with as many designs as possible.
Student Examples:
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| Autumn Tree Collage, Third Grade Art Lesson |
Materials:
12 x 18 inch blue or gray construction paper
4 x 18 inch green paper
3 x 9 inch white paper
Scrap construction paper
Glue
Scissors
Black sharpie markers
Day 1:
Demonstrate to students how to create the horizon line using the green paper. I have students cut a curve line along the length of the paper to give the horizon line more interest in the composition.
Using the white paper, students may cut out clouds and add them to their sky if they desire.
Next, using scrap construction paper or if you rather have pre-cut squares of paper in sizes ranging from 5 x 5 inches to 3 x 3 inches, have students select autumn colors and cut paper into shapes that remind them of tree forms.
Students should glue these pieces above the horizon line, so it looks like they are floating in the air. I recommended to students to glue 9 to 10 pieces on their paper. Overlapping guidelines were discussed as well as size relevance in relation to foreground, middle ground and background. I encourage students to play and think about the pieces in the composition before gluing them down.
Day 2:
Demonstrate to students how to create tree trunks with a sharpie marker. We discussed that the trees in the foreground would have a longer tree trunk than the trees in the background.
After trunks were in place, students were given a handout on Zentangles. Students used this handout as inspiration for their own ideas. Students were encouraged to come up with as many designs as possible.
Student Examples:
Lucky Sun Designs
Third Grade
4 Class Periods
* This lesson was inspired by Cassie Stephens Mexican Sun/Moon Weavings. Feel free to check out her blog to see some amazing student work as well as her own directions for this lesson.
Day 1:
Students examined a powerpoint that I created on the Metepec Culture, the pottery they create and the symbolism of the sun and moon. We discussed how the Metepec culture thought the sun designs to be lucky. We thought of items in our own culture that we considered lucky. Students used the remainder of the class period to brainstorm ideas for their own sun designs.
Day 2:
Students took their brainstorm sheets from the class period before to look at for reference for this class session. Students traced a circle (I used a Pringle potato chip lid for a stencil) on a piece of tagboard (4 x 4 inches). Students then traced their eyes, nose and mouth off of their brainstorm sheet onto a piece of foam (2 x 4 inches long). These pieces were then cut out and glued to the circle to help create a relief. Pieces were set to the side to dry.
Students then painted a cardboard circle with warm colors. The cardboard circles I used have a diameter of 5 inches. They were given to me as school donation. You could obviously create your own circle out of cardboard or use a paper plate, like Cassie did in her lesson.
Day 3:
Students will cut circle out of tagboard. Use spray glue to fix aluminum foil (5 x 5 inch square) to circle. Have students wrap the foil around the circle and then burnish it with their hand to expose the relief created by the foam pieces glued in the previous class. Students then color the foam using colored sharpie markers. Before students leave class, have them glue their foil sun to the center of the cardboard circle that they painted in the previous class.
Day 4:
On this last day of the lesson student create marks on the cardboard around the sun with a sharpie marker. Students need to have an odd number of marks (for us the number eleven worked out very well). After the marks are made, students cut on the marks to the foil circle.
Next, yarn pieces were woven around the circles. Students could choose 1 to 4 pieces of yarn to weave around their compositions.
As a finishing touch, students used puffy paint to add details to the sun motif.
Student Examples:
4 Class Periods
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| Lucky Sun Designs, Fourth Grade Lesson |
* This lesson was inspired by Cassie Stephens Mexican Sun/Moon Weavings. Feel free to check out her blog to see some amazing student work as well as her own directions for this lesson.
Day 1:
Students examined a powerpoint that I created on the Metepec Culture, the pottery they create and the symbolism of the sun and moon. We discussed how the Metepec culture thought the sun designs to be lucky. We thought of items in our own culture that we considered lucky. Students used the remainder of the class period to brainstorm ideas for their own sun designs.
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| Brainstorming Ideas |
Day 2:
Students took their brainstorm sheets from the class period before to look at for reference for this class session. Students traced a circle (I used a Pringle potato chip lid for a stencil) on a piece of tagboard (4 x 4 inches). Students then traced their eyes, nose and mouth off of their brainstorm sheet onto a piece of foam (2 x 4 inches long). These pieces were then cut out and glued to the circle to help create a relief. Pieces were set to the side to dry.
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| Tracing design on a piece of foam. |
Students then painted a cardboard circle with warm colors. The cardboard circles I used have a diameter of 5 inches. They were given to me as school donation. You could obviously create your own circle out of cardboard or use a paper plate, like Cassie did in her lesson.
Day 3:
Students will cut circle out of tagboard. Use spray glue to fix aluminum foil (5 x 5 inch square) to circle. Have students wrap the foil around the circle and then burnish it with their hand to expose the relief created by the foam pieces glued in the previous class. Students then color the foam using colored sharpie markers. Before students leave class, have them glue their foil sun to the center of the cardboard circle that they painted in the previous class.
Day 4:
On this last day of the lesson student create marks on the cardboard around the sun with a sharpie marker. Students need to have an odd number of marks (for us the number eleven worked out very well). After the marks are made, students cut on the marks to the foil circle.
Next, yarn pieces were woven around the circles. Students could choose 1 to 4 pieces of yarn to weave around their compositions.
As a finishing touch, students used puffy paint to add details to the sun motif.
Student Examples:
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