Unit Overview: Students studied honeybees and created bee artworks to show realistic drawing of an animal and how to incorporates shapes into an artwork. BEEEEEEEEEEES! That's one of husband's favorites sayings. It comes from the "improved pain scale". #6. I'll post it below for your entertainment. In addition to that being a common phrase in my house, I also happen to own bees. Yes, in my free time, I am a part-time beekeeper. I love bees. I love how focused they are. How happy they are. And yes, they may seem scary. Honestly though, I've never been stung by my bees. Even as I'm ripping open their home to steal their food. They just kind of buzz in an annoyed tone and go along their merry way.
So, inspired by my love of bees (and wanting to teach students about the importance of pollinators), we did this lovely art lesson on bees. We utilized an Art Hub for Kids video (thanks, Mr. Rob!) on how to draw a realistic bee (see here). After drawing the bee in pencil, we sharpied and erased. Then, using hexagon shapes, we traced the hexagons (even through the bee) in pencil to create a honeycomb style design behind the bee. Because we sharpied the bee before we traced the hexagons on top, the students were able to better sharpie the honeycomb pattern around the bee. Finally, we colored using watercolor crayons (yes, they do exist!) and painted with pure water. Ta-da! The pictures are bee-utiful! The kids were a-buzz making them. And that's all the bee puns I got.
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Unit Overview: Students read the book "Dragons Love Tacos" and created a stacked taco drawing using pencils, sharpies, and oil pastels. What can I say ....
Kindergarten is the last class of the day. And let's be honest with ourselves, we are totally craving some tacos (and maybe margaritas) come 4:00 P.M. But since we can't eat the tacos, we may as well draw them. This gave students the opportunity to review pattern and create something from their personal life in art. (Making the tacos they like, with the toppings they like.) Some looked a little like a hot mess of a taco. Others looked like they could be on the cover of Food magazine. All of them looked delicious. And we left art class a little hungrier after these scrumptious lessons. Unit Overview: Students learned about foreshortening by drawing close-ups of animal faces. Students colored their animal faces using oil pastel to show texture. Boop the snoot. Is basically means to poke the nose. Why? I don't know. I just teach here. I don't come up with this stuff.
But booping snoots is popular in my school. I don't know why. But it reminded me of the stuffed animals that were so popular in the 2000s. "The Dog". Do you remember those large nosed, big headed dogs, like the pug, daschund, and german shepherd? I do. I think I may have even owned one of those stuffies. Thus was inspired this lesson. One of the concepts we covered is foreshortening. Foreshortening is when an object that close to you appears really large and then dramatically gets smaller. Like imagine someone with their hand blocking a picture being taken. Their hand will be HUGE. And then get small quickly. And then behind all that, the small face of the person trying to hide. That is foreshortening in a nutshell. And so, with first grade, we drew HUGE noses and little facial features, trying to capture foreshortening in art. We also discussed texture. We wanted to demonstrate the difference between an animals smooth nose and rough fur. So, we used our fingers to blend the oil pastel for thee smooth nose. We left choppy lines for the fur to show the rough texture of the fur. The students really enjoyed this, and so did I. Not bad for a bunch of nose pictures. |
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