Cardboard Sculpture-Second Grade

 Cardboard Sculpture Mini Lesson

Sculpture- Creating art that is 3 dimensional. Sculpture can be made using a variety of  techniques and materials such as found objects, wood, clay, metal, and stone.

Sustainability-Reuse Cardboard to make Sculpture-Third Grade

 Cardboard Sculpture Mini Lesson

I get a lot of things I buy delivered to my home. They arrive in cardboard boxes. Sometimes I recycle them so that they can be made into new cardboard or paper products. Sometimes I bring them here to school students like you can reuse the cardboard to make fabulous things. Either choice is better than throwing them away. 

You can make what you like out of cardboard, but it could be a fun challenge to design a house for an animal.

It could be a pet or a farm animal

Video Demo, skip beginning and end.

Weather is Beautiful-First Grade

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Engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of the natural world. 

We have been talking about beauty in our world and how artists use beautiful things to get ideas.

Snow is Beautiful

Beauty in Weather: Winter Snow

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

Early Out 30 minute Classes

 2nd and 3rd grade 

1st Grade

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Landmarks: Places and Spaces final lesson -Second Grade

 

What is a Landmark?

Landmark -  an object or a feature of a landscape or town that has importance or makes a place easily recognizable

When you're on a road trip or walking through a town, you may notice sculptures or statues alongside the road, in a park, or next to you on the sidewalk. You may notice buildings or structures that look really old or unique. It can be fun to search for landmarks like these when you travel, even on your morning route to school.

A landmark is an object or a feature of a landscape or town that has importance or makes a place easily recognizable. Landmarks will often have a sign with information explaining their importance. When you travel, pay close attention to finding new landmarks everywhere you go. 

Landmarks in the United States of America

The St. Louis Arch-St Louis, Missouri

Statue of Liberty-Liberty Island in NY Harbor

Mount Rushmore- Keystone, SD

Golden Gate Bridge- San Francisco CA

Landmarks Across the World

There are many famous landmarks that attract people from all over to enjoy their sights. Some famous landmarks in the United States include the Golden Gate Bridge in California, Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, and the Statue of Liberty in New York. Around the world, there are other famous landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower in France and the Great Wall of China and the Great Pyramids in Egypt.

Eiffel Tower- Paris, France

The Great Wall of China

Great Pyramids at Giza -Egypt 

Leaning Tower of Pisa-Italy

Consider a time when you saw or visited a landmark, or even learned about one.

Largest Czech Egg-Wilson, Kansas

What is the name of the landmark and where is it located? 

What did you think about the landmark when you first saw it or first learned about it?

ART IDEAS

Drawing 

Sculpture from a Cylinder

Oil Pastel and watercolor                                                Printed Tempera Tower pastel background

Sustainability-Don't Throw It Away, Make Something! -Third Grade

Sustainability Meeting the needs of people now without compromising the ability of people to meet their needs in the future. 

This means a lot of things, but in art class it can mean using materials wisely, and not wasting them. It might mean re-using paper, cardboard, magazines and other items rather than throwing them away. 

Every time you throw something away it gets sent to a landfill. More and more rubbish is piled on top until it is too big and the landfill has to be closed. 

The great thing is that many things can be reused and recycled. 

Lets watch what this might look like for you.

PBS Garbage

The art room is a GREAT place to REUSE items. Let's think about magazines in particular. WHY should we reuse them?

PBS Magazines

Cut shapes out of a magazine page. Here they cut out the shapes of houses.

Make an animal portrait. Get a copy of an animal and cut and glue magazine papers to cover most of the animal, leaving some of the original features visible.

Cut out shapes to create texture in your art.

You could use lots of different colors, or try to stay in the same color family, like all greens or all blues.

Make a portrait, use magazine facial features, and cut squares to frame it!

Find images you like, cut them out and create a story-or make something wacky and wonderful!

Beauty is all Around Us: Trees- First Grade

 A Tree is Beautiful

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Observation- the act of careful watching and listening

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? 

Tempera Paint Introduction - 3rd

 

New Medium! Tempera Painting

 In the painting studio, we are opening tempera paint!

Tempera paint can be applied so that it is opaque or semi-transparent. 

We keep our tempera paint in trays like this:

We share the tempera paint with others in the painting studio.

You will set up your own tray like this, and get a placemat before beginning to paint.

• Use red handled brushes, or green handled brushes with tempera paint
  
  Tempera Painting Video:

New Medium! Tempera Painting introduction- 2nd

 In the painting studio, we are opening tempera paint!

Tempera Paint- liquid, water soluble paint. Thicker and more opaque than water color paint.

Tempera paint can be applied so that it is opaque or semi-transparent. 

We keep our tempera paint in trays like this:

We share the tempera paint with others in the painting studio.

You will set up your own tray like this, and get a placemat before beginning to paint.

• Use red handled brushes, or green handled brushes with tempera paint
  
  Tempera Painting Video:

Fibers Studio Introduction - 1st

Running Stitch-  a small even stitch run in and out in cloth.

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 Fibers Video