AMI/ Snowflake Designs /Grades 1-3

Beauty in a Snowflake

There is beauty in the design of a snowflake...

Look at some snow crystals up close, and learn some easy ways to create your own snowflakes!

Listen to the book, "Snowflake Bentley" and learn about Wilson Bentley, the first person to photograph snowflakes up close! 

Watch the Video Lesson:  Beauty in a Snowflake

1st-3rd Grade Art

Make some art! 

Supplies Needed:
White Paper-any size
Any Kind of Drawing supplies-
pencil, pen, crayon, markers, whatever you have!

If you would like to share your art, please have your grown up post it on our Festus Elementary Art Facebook Page!

Snow is Beautiful

Beauty in Weather: Winter Snow

How do artists share the beauty of a snowy day in their art? How can you?

Nature's Beauty: Observing Nature Up Close

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

B. Investigation

Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.

Today we will learn to look carefully at flowers and leaves to discover the beautiful details in the natural world.

During this week, you can look for other natural objects that you might like to observe closely and draw.

Have you ever looked at a flower up close?

What did you notice that you didn't see from far away?

Here is a painting from far away of a field of poppies

Here is a painting close up of a single poppy

Do you think this artist could paint this flower from memory? 

Or would the artist need to see the flower in real life?

This artist, Georgia O'Keefe would study flowers in real life so she could notice all the lines, shapes and colors.

Some artists like to observe nature from a distance, far away

Some artists like to observe nature up close

Which way do you like to observe nature?

Design a Balloon

 

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Balloon Design

(A lesson for the short week before Thanksgiving)

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Beauty in Architecture

A Building is Beautiful

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How do places (buildings) shape lives and communities? How do artists effectively communicate their place?

When we look at a beautiful building, we experience that WOW feeling that we get when we look at something beautiful in nature. 

Video Lesson:

Beauty in Nature-Trees

 A Tree is Beautiful

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People find beauty in nature. This mini lesson is about observing trees, and noticing changes throughout the seasons, and through the eyes of an artist.  When you make your art, how can you express that beauty? 

Silhouettes

A silhouette is the dark shape or outline of something, usually against a lighter background.

Video

Beauty is all around us- First Grade

 What do you find beautiful in the world?

What colors do you see in this picture?

Andre Derain - Charing Cross Bridge

What lines and shapes do you see in this pictures?

Andre Derain - The Trees

Andre Derain made many paintings of beautiful places. 

What makes these places beautiful?

What makes these paintings beautiful?

- People find things of beauty in the world around them.

- Artists share what they think is beautiful in their art.

OUR EXPERIENCES: We see beauty when we look closely at nature or when we view a landscape a distance. We see beauty in the parts of the world that are built by humans such as bridges and buildings

We also can "see" or feel beauty in our actions of kindness,  love and respect.

ARTISTS HELP US FIND AND SHOW BEAUTY IN OUR WORLD.

Can you think of a beautiful place you would like to share? 

Is it a building or is it in nature?

What lines, shapes and colors will you use?

On an index card, or small piece of paper, take 5 minutes to write about or draw something you find beautiful.

Where Do Artists Get Ideas?

 Link to Beth Williams' Art blog: Meramec Choice Art

First Grade-What is Art?

 WHAT IS ART? PBS YOUNG EXPLORERS

Choice Art Studio Introduction 2020

Mrs Junge's Room

Mrs Wyman's Room

 

Fiber Art

 Fiber arts is about making art with thread, yarn, paper, and fabric, made from both natural and man made fibers.

This week we will be visiting the Fiber Arts studio. 

First Grade Skills

- Thread a yarn needle

- Tie a knot

- Sew a running stitch in burlap

First Grade Video

Second Grade Skills

- Thread a needle

- Tie a knot

- Sew around two pieces of felt with an overstitch (whip stitch)

- Stuff and sew closed to make a stuffy

Second Grade Video

Third Grade Skills

- Thread a needle

- Tie a knot

- Sew a letter with a running stitch

- Sew two pieces of felt together with an overstitch (whip stitch)

- Stuff and sew closed to make a stuffy.

Third Grade Video

Painting Studio

 

The Painting Studio

Create	1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.	A. Play & Ideation	Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials
		B. Investigation	Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.

Welcome to the Painting Studio!

This week we are learning about working in the painting studio. 

We are going to learn studio procedures for set up and clean-up, look at some paintings by master artists, learn how to care for the materials in the painting studio, and explore painting with watercolor paint. 

We will complete the skills we learn in our Studio Practice books.

(If you don't have a studio practice book, you can complete the lesson using 2 pieces of white paper)

Materials Needed:

Studio Practice book or 2 pieces of white paper

Watercolor paint

Paintbrush

Cup or bowl of water

Paper towel

1st Grade Video Lesson:

Second Grade Video Lesson:

Third Grade Video Lesson:

Collage Studio

 Virtual Lesson/In person Learning

What is a collage?

A collage is made by cutting up, arranging, and gluing down materials such as paper, string, fabric, and newspaper. 

"Coller is a French word, that means to glue something together, so it makes sense that a collage is when you glue materials to a flat surface.

In collage you can use many different materials to make something new!

interesting papers, torn or cut

newspapers/ any text

magazine pictures

sheet music

yarn

stickers/stamps

buttons

fabric

You can also draw on your collage!

Materials needed:
White Paper for background
Colored Construction Paper 
Pencil
Scissors
Glue Stick
Crayons or Markers (optional)

Watch this video for our collage lesson

This week we will practice making our own collage.

You can make a collage of anything you want. 

 Click on the link below for your grade level skills.

1st Grade Collage Skills

2nd Grade Collage Skills

3rd Grade Collage Skills

Drawing Studio

 

Virtual Lessons 

Week August 31 - September 4

Let's Draw!

This week we are experimenting with drawing materials. 

We will show what we know using pencils, crayons and markers.

This practice will prepare us for our work in the drawing studio!

                                  Video for 1st and 2nd Grade

Video for 3rd Grade

Print out your own drawing page with this link, or just follow along on a blank piece of paper. 

1st Grade Drawing

2nd Grade Drawing

3rd Grade Drawing

1. With a pencil you can create light and dark values.

2. You can layer colors with crayon.

3. You can use the tip and the sides of the marker.

4. Third grade Try to create a gradate with a crayon by changing pressure.

After you have finished this exercise, create your own drawing on another piece of paper using the skills and tools we just learned about. 

Ask yourself these questions:

1. How did you use your pencil?  Did you press light or hard?

2. Did you layer crayons? Where? If you didn't, add one color on top of another to create layers.

3. Did you use the tip or the side of the markers?

Congratulations! You are now ready to use the drawing studio!

In Person Learning

Let's Draw!

This week we are experimenting with drawing materials. 

We will show what we know using pencils, crayons and markers.

This practice will prepare us for our work in the drawing studio!

With a pencil...
You can create light and dark values. 

Value is the lightness or darkness of a color. 

You can create light and dark values by changing how hard you press on your pencil.

Blending and Layering: 

Making new colors in the drawing Studio

You can layer crayon by coloring one color over another lightly.

       

• Can you see where the colors overlap in layers to create new colors?
• Why do you think it is important to color lightly when layering?

Create your own drawing using the skills and tools we just learned about. 

Ask yourself these questions:

1. How did you use your pencil?  Did you press light or hard?

2. Did you layer crayons? Where? If you didn't, add one color on top of another to create layers.

3. Did you use the tip or the side of the markers?

Congratulations! You are now ready to use the drawing studio!

Extra Art- Art Game

Roll a Miro-First Grade

How to play 

Roll a Miro

Roll a Landscape-Second Grade

How to play

Roll a Landscape