K – 6 Arte

Looking for new art project ideas? Here are four new (to me) art project ideas from my fabulous creative colleagues, Kelly and Nancy.

Kelly’s ‘Stained Glass’

Kelly’s ‘stained glass’ sun made with watercolors and black glue.

Kelly from Skyline School brought these beautiful ‘stained glass windows’ made with fluorescent liquid watercolor and black glue. As a final step, her students rubbed their artwork with baby oil and a cotton ball to make the paper translucent. Primary grades used a paper plate tracer to make the sun. Upper elementary made the geometric window (nota: upper grade students used carbon paper to transfer their symmetric designs).

Kelly’s ‘Stained Glass Window’ made with watercolor and black glue.

A New Twist on Monet

Kelly also brought these Monet water-lily paintings. Please zoom in on this painting – the paint texture is so interesting. Kelly didn’t offer a brush – her students applied paint with novelty rings purchased at Oriental Trading. These rings look like little sea urchins. If you try this, Kelly recommends pinching the ring instead of wearing it on her finger. Needless to say, her students LOVED this project!

Kelly’ s students painted their Monet-inspired art with a ring from Oriental Trading.

30-Minute Color Mixing

Nancy teaches art at Solana Highlands School. She brought a color mixing project. Students used two colors plus black and white. After tinting, shading and creating a neutral, they drizzled black glue over the top. I love how much variety her students achieved. Some of these abstract compositions look like animal patterns. LOVE! Even more impressive: Nancy only has 30 minutes with her students. She does a lot of stations and table rotations to fit her projects in the tight time frame.

Kindergarten Paper Quilts

Nancy did these paper quilt squares with the kindergarten. The kindergarteners start with a 6″ square of paper. They collage first, then Nancy adds holes with a three-hole punch. Classe successiva, the kindergartener lace the holes. Nancy glues the squares together into a quilt.

Come sempre, I am FLOORED by my colleagues creativity. They always have interesting, challenging, beautiful projects – and they teach them so well. Thanks to Nancy and Kelly for sharing your ideas.

Godere!

For over 80 anni, the San Diego Museum of Art has held a juried exhibition of student art. This year’s show is all about identity. Arte Giovane ‘The Story of Me’ is on display right now at the Museum at the Center for Community and Cultural Art. Learn more in this article.

Our school had a record 12 pieces in this year’s show. Congratulations to all our young artists! Here are all their fabulous projects, arranged by grade:

First Grade: Clay Self-Portraits

First Grade: Royal Self Portrait

L. and her royal self-portrait

Secondo grado: Super Hero Self Portraits

Third Grade: Heritage Self Portrait

Gavin’s heritage self-portrait, ‘Flag Face’, incorporates the flags of France and Italy.

Quarto Grado: CD Case Double Portraits

Fifth Grade: Charm bracelets and dog tags

Mo’s self-portrait is a T-shirt and neck chain, with charms for skiing and Spiderman.

Bella’s self-portrait charm bracelet includes charms for Mexico, swimming, and Disneyland.

Jacob’s salute to his family’s military background includes a camouflage shirt and individual dog tags for family members in the service.

Well done artists!!!! The show is up until May 26, 2013. Hope you can visit!

Thanks to the fabulous art education team at SDMART for making Young Art happen. Our community truly appreciates all your hard work.

Godere!

Ho appena finito una statua di Peter Max progetto Liberty con i miei bambini di prima elementare. To plan this lesson, I took a look at a lot of elementary-level Peter Max lesson plans on the internet. All my research is contained in the Round Up collage above.

Do you like this collage? Hover over each image and you will see an arrow. Click on the arrow to link directly to the lesson.

I made this graphic using a free website called ThingLink. It allows users to make images interactive. I learned about ThingLink on the Free Technology for Teachers blog.

Here are some more resources you can use for your lesson:

Meet Peter Max:

Wikipainting.org has a great selection of Peter Max artworks, including a Liberty Head, psychedelic artwork from the 1960s, e Warhol-like portraits of famous people.

Our students watched Peter Max prep his canvases this EXCELLENT 2008 video from CBS This Morning. (Requires flash. Reading this on an iPhone or iPad? Click here)

Our Art Project: We ended up doing a two-day art project using tempera torte and black crayon on 12″x18″ sulphite and manila paper.

Giorno 1:Paint backgrounds in style of Peter Max. Students made patches of color, stripes or even polka dots.

Giorno 2: Use black crayon or oil pastel in directed draw of Statue of Liberty head. BE SURE TO TELL STUDENTS TO GO BACK OVER THEIR LINES SO THEY ARE THICK AND BLACK.

Here is one of our first grade artworks:

Godere!

Our first graders learned about artist George Rodrigue’s Blue Dog. They had a fabulous time creating their own blue (or green or magenta) dogs and dressing them up in paper collage. Il George Rodrigue Foundation website has every resource you could possibly need. I downloaded the Blue Dog PowerPoint slideshow, and learned the Blue Dog was inspired by Rodrigue’s late dog, Tiffany. The PowerPoint has lots of ’dressed up’ Blue Dog paintings, including a secret agent dog, hula dog and motorcycle dog. Of course the first graders LOVED that! I also showed students the first few minutes of this video from CBS Sunday Morning.

Now on to the art project!

Materiale

• white sulphite drawing paper – 12″ x 18“ (or other white paper that is strong enough for painting)
• black crayons
• tempera torte
• water cups and brushes
• colla stick
• forbici
• colored construction paper scraps

Giorno 1: Students watched Blue Dog PowerPoint, then did a directed draw of the blue dog using black crayon. Next they painted the dog in a single solid color using tempera cakes. Amazingly, this took only 40 minutes thanks to the easy-to-handle tempera cakes.

Giorno 2: Students decorated their dogs using scrap paper and glue stick. This was a popular and super successful project with easy clean up. I will definitely repeat next year.

Godere!

Premio: FREE Blue Dog app on the iTunes store!

Blue Dog Books You Might Like:

Siete alla ricerca di un progetto di divertimento collage per la scuola materna? This newspaper city collage project engages students with a discussion about their city, then lets them use their cutting, gluing, coloring and painting skills.

When asked, “What do you see in a city?” kindergarteners named all sorts of things: houses, strade, tall apartment buildings, garages, and even boats in San Diego harbor. One girl talked about her recent trip to the city hospital, another about what she saw on vacation in New York City.

Materiale:

• costruzione di carta nera
• giornale
• forbici
• colla stick
• construction paper crayons, plus black crayon
• watercolor set

Giorno 1: Cut and glue newspapers. Emphasize shape: piazze, cerchi, triangles, rectangles etc. Add details with crayon.

Giorno 2: Paint with watercolor.

Kindergarteners make cut paper city collages from newspaper, then color with crayon and watercolor. Lasciare due classi da 40 minuti.

Aren’t they wonderful?

New York City collage before and after crayons and watercolor. Do you see the Statue of Liberty?

As much as the kinders enjoyed the project, I would do things a little differently next time:

• Use smaller black construction paper . Students had difficulty filling the 12″x18″ paper we used within the class time frame. So this class took three 40 classi minuto – I want to shorten it to two.
• Skip the front page of the newspaper! It took extra time to eliminate inappropriate ads and articles. Next time I will try the white pages of a phone book, classified ads or financial/stock listings.

This lesson was inspired by this lesson by CCE happening di arte.

Do you have a favorite collage project for kindergarten?