Still working on the same project. I’ll be introducing some new photo projects. Taking photos of small people. I bought them originally on Amazon, but they were really small so pay attention to the ratio size. I ended up going to Hobby Lobby so I could see them.
Then they will also work on product photo shoot. Athletic energy drink. I have my photo booth that we will use to set up with props.
I think every art teacher has a version of this lesson. I got mine from when I student taught. My cooperative teacher did this with 1st grade. It’s too much fun with boogie woogie music, NYC, primary colors, and Piet Mondrain. I have a slide show that we watch and move around the room like NYC traffic. It’s one of those lessons I teach every year. Never gets old.
I made a video for students to watch and move around the room. Here is a link to the Broadway Boogie Woogie Video.
Picture book inspired mask lesson. Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? By Bill Martin and illustrations by Eric Carle. The masks are made from construction paper, paper plates, and crayons. We make lions, tigers, bears oh my!
Surrealism and Magritte’s False Eye are a great combination for an intro for 3rd. We talked about neutral colors and surrealism art movement. What are the parts of the eye: sclera, pupil, iris, eyelid. Students often get hung up on having that perfect circle so I had them use a CD to trace the inside and the outside for the pupil and iris. It does help to make the kids feel more confident about what they are doing. I had the students think about what they would want to see in their False Eye?
Shaving cream and watercolors is how these night skies where made. It’s a easy monoprint process of painting on the shaving cream and pressing down with a sheet of paper. The results are different and amazing each time. I got this lesson from the Incredible ART Dept.
This lesson came from Arts and Activities. My second graders really enjoy creating all kinds of variations on these aliens. I have them fold a sheet of construction paper in half. Then draw half their alien away from the fold. Kids will often draw their alien along the side that opens up. This can cause unhappy results when they cut. Then the kids have to cut through both layers of the paper.
I also created a youtube video students would watch about the planets and I would tell a story about blasting off into space. Here is the video Warm & Cool Aliens. Here is a vide of me giving some of the instructions for the Symmetrical Aliens art lesson.
This is a lesson from my student teaching experience. My cooperative teacher taught it with Kinders. Frida Kahlo is well know for her self portraits. I show this particular self portrait because of all the details she includes. I have students think about what she might be feeling. They make their own self portraits with feelings. If you don’t have multicultural construction paper have your students paint the paper their skin color. I had several skin color choices and it worked out great. Here are the results.
I’ve been quietly making lots of grid drawing worksheets on my TPT store. I wanted to post one here as a thank you to all the customers that have purchased from me on TPT. You should be able to get the free PDF download by clicking on the link. HelmetGridSheetTEMPLATE
Thank you to all of you that have been supporting me on my journey to reach 100 items on my store. Currently at 66.
I taught elementary art for 8 yrs. It was always on a tight budget. GA art standards want students to sketch and plan out their work. I wanted students to keep their own record of their sketches in a sketchbook. I finally made a video on my Youtube channel on how to do that. Here is a link to How to Make a Sketchbook.
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