Art at Home for Week of June 15

Our final art project for the year!  This weeks theme is texture rubbings, and all grades are working on the same lesson!  See below to learn all about your art lesson for this week..

Texture Rubbings 
For All Grades

Here are some textures, can you imagine what it might feel like to touch them?

Texture refers to the way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched. Texture is one of the seven elements of art.   Today you will create a piece of abstract art using texture rubbings.
Remember, Abstract art is art that doesn't resemble anything you'd see in real life. Yours will be made up of colors and textures.

Materials:

3 or more colors of crayons, with the label peeled off

Piece of thin paper, like photocopy paper

Steps:

Look around your house and your yard, find anything that has some sort of texture, looks for objects with holes, bumps, ridges, etc.  One idea is to use some leaves from outside, but I bet you can find many other objects for your texture rubbings.  *Maybe tree bark, the side of a chair, bubble wrap, a Lego, tiles on a floor or wall, there are so many textures in and around your house!

Hold your paper over the object, rub with the side of the crayon until you can see the texture on your paper.

Do this all over your paper with different textures and different colors until your paper is covered.   Try to use 8 or more textures.  Fill in your paper with textures until it's completely filled, this is your abstract work of art :)

Have fun!  

Art at Home for Week of June 8

Welcome back! This week's theme is Paper Folding and Paper Sculpture. There are so many ways to take flat paper and make it 3D, so scroll down to see your lesson for the week. Send me photos for the gallery if you'd like. And have fun!

Paper Pop-Ups

Grades K and 1

How do you make a flat strip of paper pop up so that it isn’t flat anymore?

You can fold, crumple, roll it, or push the ends of the paper towards

the middle. Now the paper pops up, or is three-dimensional.

Look at the examples below. Today you will make three-dimensional paper pop-ups!

Materials:

Background paper, heavier than copy paper is better
Strips of paper, construction or copy paper
Scissors
Glue or tape

Steps:

-To make a circle, apply glue to one end of a paper strip and roll into a circle.
-To make tabs, fold both ends of the paper strip. 
-To make a zig-zag, start at one end of the paper strip and fold back and forth until you reach the end.
-To attach pop-ups, apply glue and place on background paper. Hold pop-ups in place and count to ten so the glue sets. If you don't have glue, you can tape them down.

-Try making as many pop-ups as you can! You can place pop-ups on top of each other. See how high you can make it!

A Closer look at making Tabs

Paper Sculpture Creatures

For Grades 2 and 3

Materials:

Toilet Paper Tube (or Paper Towel Tube cut in half)

Paper Scraps, fabric scraps, stickers, anything colorful to decorate your creature

Google Eyes (optional)

Pipe Cleaner for arms.  (optional).  String or sticks or wire would work too!

Tape or a stapler to attach arms (optional)

Glue

Scissors

Steps:

Think of something to inspire your creature: think about animals, aliens,
monsters, emotions, etc.

Start with a piece of paper about the length of your tube.  Put glue on the
back of the paper and wrap it around the tube.  This will be the body of
your creature.

Use all of your scrap materials you’ve gathered to bring your creature to life. 
Will it have ears?  Wings?  Some silly clothes?  Spots? A nose?  Whiskers? 
Horns?  See the examples below for ideas.  Glue down all your parts,
be creative!

If you have pipe cleaners, you can tape or staple them on to the sides
for arms.  You can be creative and find anything that works for arms as
well.  Maybe some wire or string?

If you have google eyes, glue them on.  If you don’t have google eyes,
you can make your own.  Cut out a white circle and a smaller black
circle for the center.  Glue the black circle onto the white circle and
you have one “google eye”.

Give your creature a name and maybe even make a drawing of
where it lives.  Have fun!!

Mice Corner Bookmarks
For Grades 4 and 5

Materials:
Paper
Scissors
Something to color with

Watch the video below to learn how to make these corner bookmarks.  Just so you don't get confused, she uses a regular piece of printer paper but she calls it an A4 piece of paper because she's British.  You can use any paper really.

If you finish some mice bookmarks, you might want try making these corner bookmarks using a bigger square of paper and think even think of other ideas such as.... dogs? cats? monsters? funny faces?  Have fun with this!

Mice Corner Bookmarks Video

Shine A Light on Specials Day!

Shine A Light On Specials Day - Friday June 5th

All Students in Grades K-5.   -  Choose One Activity From the List Below!  

1. Pick one lesson from this blog to do today.  If you've done all the 
art lessons for your grade level already, try one that's for a different 
grade and adapt it so it works for you.  

2.  If your grade level has a Zoom Art Class today, join it!  
(See your email for the Zoom invite).  
Gr. 2 9 am
Gr. 1 9:30 am
Gr. 4 10 am
*Grades that haven't had Zoom Art yet will have a 
Zoom Art Class next week!

3.  Watch and Draw with Mo Willems and his Lunch Doodles: 
Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

4.  Visit this website and explore 15 Outdoor Art Activities, 
try at least one!  The list includes cool ideas like mud paint, 
nature faces, leaf rubbings, nature paint brushes, and more.  

http://www.playideas.com/15-outdoor-art-projects-kids/

Have fun!!

Art at Home for Week of June 1

Welcome back Center School friends,
the theme for this week
is Under The Sea. If the weather is nice, it would be a great
idea to bring your art supplies and do your lesson outside!
Scroll down to see your lesson for the week, and
as always remember that you can email me a photo of
your finished work to be added to our online art gallery.

Flip Flop Fish inspired by the book, You Be You

For Grades K and 1

Watch the following video of the story, You Be You by Linda Kranz. Adri
discovers that all fish have something special to share. This is what makes
the world so colorful and beautiful! Notice the colorful designs and the simple
curved shapes of the fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAQvHBCY2M

Today you will create a colorful fish by tracing your flip flop!

Materials:

Paper
A flip flop, sandal or other shoe
Black marker or crayon
Markers or crayons
Optional: round object such as a cup

Steps:

*Using the black marker or crayon, trace your flip flop on the paper.
*On the toe side of the flip flop, (the larger side) draw an eye with a
circle, and a dot inside for the pupil. This is a side view of the fish so
you will only see one eye.
*Draw a curved line for the mouth. 
*Add lips with two curved lines, if desired.
*Add curved lines for gills.
*Decorate your fish with colorful designs! Use a variety of lines
and shapes: dots, stripes, wavy lines, zig-zags. Be creative!
*Finish by making a second fish, or maybe a whole fish family!
You can use a circle for a little variety.

*Add an undersea background with seaweed and rocks.

Draw A Sea Turtle
For Grades 2 and 3

Check out these images of real sea turtles.
Notice the patterns of their spots on the head
and flippers. Notice the lines on the shell.
Today you'll be learning to draw a sea turtle and
adding a beautiful ocean background.

Materials:
Pencil
Paper
Markers, crayons, colored pencils, watercolor paints
or anything to add color


Steps:
Follow the steps below to draw a sea turtle on your white paper.
Draw lightly in case you need to erase
Once your turtle is complete, fill your background in with sea plants,
other sea creatures, tiny fish, and sand line etc.
Now it's time to add color. You could use markers, crayons,
colored pencils, or even watercolor paints if you have some.
The only rule for adding color is that you need to fill up your entire
paper with color.

Loopy Fish

For Grades 4 and 5

Line is one of the Elements of Art. Artists use many different types
of lines such as straight, curved, dotted, bumpy, zig-zag, spiral, wavy,
curly and loopy. A loopy line is like a curly line, except that it is
stretched out with less crossovers. The loops are larger and
change direction. See the examples below. 

Today you will make colorful fish with a loopy line!

Materials:

Paper
Pencil
Black marker or pen
Markers, crayons or colored pencils

Steps:

-Using your pencil, draw a long loopy line that fills the paper.
You should have 5-7 large loops. Trace your line with a black marker or pen.
-Each loop will become a fish! Add the tails by drawing a curved or
wavy line behind each loop.
-On each fish, add details such as a face, gills, and triangle fins.
-Decorate your fish with colorful designs using dots, spikes and stripes.
Be creative- make each one unique!
-Finish by adding an undersea background of seaweed and rocks.

Art at Home for Week of 5/25

Welcome back! This week's theme is bookmaking. Making your own books opens up a world of possibilities. You can use hand made books as journals, sketchbooks, a place to write stories and more.  Scroll down to find your lesson for this week.  Grades 4 and 5 have a bonus lesson to try as well.  Have fun!

Bookmaking: Texture Book

For Grades K and 1

Texture is the way something feels. How does sandpaper feel? How does cotton feel?

Today you will make a book with different kinds of textures.

Materials:

*Large square paper, (12 x 12 works well)
*Plastic sandwich bag
*Tape, scotch or masking
*Items with a variety of textures: foil, sandpaper, felt, cotton, burlap, bumpy cardboard
*Paper for the back of the textures
*Pencil
*Small circular lid
*Scissors
*Glue

Steps:

*Fold the paper in half twice into a square. This is your book. (It is a book with one page!) *Decorate the cover and write the title, Textures, How does it feel?
*Cut off the top closure of the sandwich bag.
*On the inside of the book, attach the bag with tape on the sides and bottom. Leave the top of the bag open.
*Look for items with textures that you can place inside your bag (see suggestions above).
*Once you have five or six items, trace the round lid on each one and cut them out.
*Now you will make circles for the backs of each texture. Trace the lid on the paper and cut out one circle for each item.
*Glue the textures to the paper circles.
*On the inside cover of your book, write words to describe each texture. For example, cotton is soft, sandpaper is rough.
*Place your textures in the plastic bag, and your book is complete!

Rubber Band Books

For Grades 2 and 3

Materials:

3-4 sheets of copy paper
Hole punch
One rubber band
A stick that’s a little shorter than your book or a popsicle stick

Steps:

*Fold each paper in half, like a card.
*Place all the pages inside one another.
*Using a hole punch, make two holes on the fold, about 3 inches apart. 
*Make sure they are not too close to the edge.
*Thread one end of the rubber band through one hole.
*Position the stick through the rubber band’s loop.
*Wrap the rubber band around the back through the second hole. The stick should fit through both loops in the rubber band, keeping it in place.
*Fill your book with drawings, stories, whatever you want! 
*Decorate the cover. Add your name and a title for your book. Have fun!

       Back       Front

All About Me “Stretch Books”

For Grades 4 and 5

Materials:

One sheet of photocopy paper 

Scissors

Gluestick (any other glue if you don’t have a gluestick)

Materials for filling in and decorating your completed book: markers,

colored pencils, stickers, stamps, small photos or

magazine cut-outs...

This book is able to stretch because of one simple origami fold. 

They are also referred to as “Explosion Books” because they

kind of explode outward when you open them. 

Today you’re going to make a mini-stretch book using four pages. 

But once you know the simple fold, you can make stretch books

of any size and with as many pages as you like!

First watch the video where Ms. Goldman shows you how to fold

each page, and how to glue them together. Here's the video:

Ms. Goldman's Stretch Book Video

Here’s the step by step:

Start with one sheet of copy paper, cut it into a square.  Now

take that square, fold it in half twice and unfold, so you now

have 4 squares.  Cut these squares out, they will be your pages.

Starting with your first square, fold in half diagonally.  Unfold.  

Then flip the paper over.  Fold in half (so it looks like a rectangle)

and unfold.  Fold in half (like a rectangle again) in the other direction. 

Unfold.

It will look like this when unfolded.

Now press in the creases, until it smooshes flat.

Repeat this with all four papers.

Now it’s time to glue your pages together. 

Keep the 4 pages smushed down, like the picture above.

Cover the top square of your first page with glue. 

Stick the next page on it, so the bottom of one page

is sticking to the top of the other page.  Now cover the

top of that one with glue, and stick the next page on top. 

Repeat, until they are all glued one on top of the other in a stack.

Make sure there’s not so much glue that it will stick where it’s

not supposed to!  Leave the pages to dry for an hour or so.

When the glue is dry, your stretch book is almost complete,

all you have left to do is fill it with pictures, stickers, drawings,

magazine cut-outs, little photographs..….. All about you!

Be sure to decorate the cover as well as fill in the pages.  You

could add your your name in fancy writing, your favorite foods,

activities, sports, animals, or maybe fill it in with pictures of your

family, friends and pets, it’s up to you!

Have fun!



Bonus Lesson
"Zines"
For Grades 4 and 5

Making a Zine, 

an 8-page booklet made from one piece of paper.

(directions, diagrams and videos below)

Zines (pronounced “zeens,” shortened from the word
“magazines”) are small, independent publications that
come in the form of mini pamphlets or magazines.
Zines are easy and inexpensive to make.

Making a zine is all about self-expression and creativity.
Sound good? Okay, let’s get to it!

Zines are written to explore things that are happening
in your life. You can write and use a combination of collage and drawings to document your feelings.
But you can make a zine about anything;
Recipes, directions, comics, stories, drawings, announcements, artwork..anything! Have fun!

Watch the video below with instructions for making a zine. You can pause it to follow along, and you can x out the ads!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqr9e3wCxI

And here's the step by step:

Here is a guide for knowing which space on the page is going to be which page in the book.