Unit Overview: Students designed snowglobes using video instruction in order to create a personalized snowglobe containing the student's favorite winter objects. It's that time of the year! We are trying to convince snow to come our way (Mother Nature got a hot-flash and changed all the snow that was predicted to hit into rain. Boo.) by drawing and painting snowglobes. We also did a little winter magic because . . . well, why not?
I found an amazing snowglobe drawing lesson from Art for Kids Hub on Youtube. (Click here for the link) Follow the video, but don't color! The way I instructed the kids to color was by using oil pastels for the interior design of their snowglobe. They did not color around or the "air" inside their snowglobe. Then, we did a little winter magic by taking a white crayon and using texture plates to create "invisible texture". We revealed the texture by later painting our pictures using blue watercolor. Ta-da! Magic! The texture is revealed. The kids loved this little magic trick. It helped them to understand that even though they couldn't see the marks they had made, they were still there. A good life lesson, and art lesson. I love it when philosophy makes an appearance in my projects with kids.
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Unit Overview: Students created winter themed penguins using pencil, sharpie, and marker in order to decorate the school for the Winter Concert. I love it when we have time to create art for school events and activities. It builds a sense of community and engagement. So, my co-teacher had fourth grade make some present pictures to decorate the stage for the Winter Concert. It only made sense then to continue with the theme alliteratively and have third grade make some penguins (Presents and Penguins, get it?).
I posted a photo of how to create a penguin and had the student add details that reflected their personal art style. The only requirement was to make penguins that looked like they were in the winter season (no penguins sunbathing on a beach). Unit Overview: Students designed dippity-dye artworks using paper, pencils, watercolors, and sharpies in order to create an animal artwork that represented themselves for Art to Remember. This is a fundraiser project through a company called "Art to Remember". This is a great way to raise funds for art clubs, groups, schools, organizations, etc.
I did a similar project with third grade a few years ago where we tie-dyed paper using tissue paper. (See unit here.) The difference between that project and this one is the paper. There is special absorbent paper called dippity-dye paper. It is thin like tissue paper and absorbs ink quickly. You can buy the expensive dyes from the company. However, I find that concentrated watercolor paint (the stuff in bottles) works just as well. Students folded the paper into various shapes (we discussed the difference between folding and just crumpling paper) and then dunked their papers into prepared cups of watercolor paint. The paper, when unfolded, gives a tie-dye affect. We then chose animals that we felt represent us. I chose a pangolin (yes, it's an animal) because pangolins are obscure, loners, not exactly attractive, and yet extremely rare and unique. I asked the students to identify the same way with animals. They did a great job. Finally, I permitted students with good handwriting to write a phrase on their paper (permitting they practice good hand-lettering and let me spell-check first). I always enjoy Art to Remember projects, because the students tend to be more invest in something they want printed on a cup or ruler. I always feel that these artworks turn out so cool! Unit Overview: Students created miniature artworks using Sculpey clay in order to discuss how miniature art is made, who makes miniature art, and why miniature art is important. We all know that cute things often come in small packages. But what about making the cute thing in small packages. Well, that's a bit harder. However, thanks to Cassie Stephens (shout out!), I was inspired to use a DIY project of hers as an art lesson: Miniature Food Charms. It was November. There's a common theme for me in the month of November. Food. So we talked about miniature art and food. I showed them incredible miniature artists like Tanaka Tatsuya. Holy burritos. He is an amazing artist. We began our miniature food art adventure by practicing creating small forms using modeling clay. The students didn't get to keep the modeling clay pieces. However, it was good practice. And we evaluated the struggles, challenges, and achievements or working small. Finally, we were ready for Sculpey. The kids loved it! Usually, my kiddos hate it when I get snapshots of their hands (nobody wants to be the art hand model). But during this lesson, they loved it! For reference, I photographed these charms on a seashell. All the charms photographed are the same size or smaller than a quarter. Yeah . . . impressive for fourth grade.
Unit Overview: Students created food pictures of turkey or pie in the style of Wayne Thiebaud in order to depict a personal favorite food item at Thanksgiving. Students created art about food. My favorite subject. It is also a favorite subject of artist, Wayne Thiebaud. He is an American artist who most famously draws, paints, and sketches food items, especially desserts. Because we did these in the month of November (I'm about a week late in posting these), we focused on a foodie holiday, Thanksgiving. The first thing we did was practice drawing Thanksgiving food. I found two step-by-step hand outs that we used to help draw pie and turkey. We draw in pencil and sharpied first. To finish, we painted using tempera paints, and then re-sharpied our lines when the paint had dried completely.
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