Lesson Background:
We decorated our classroom door with these beautiful snowflakes. It was a lovely way to start the year, talking about how we are each unique, different and special.
Lesson Materials:
white, light blue and dark blue paper circles
Lesson Steps:
1. We watched some videos and read some books about snowflakes.
2. I demonstrated how to create different shapes and patterns in their snowflakes.
3. The children folded, then cut out their snowflakes.
Lesson Background:
As a part of our Geography unit, we brainstormed places around us and landmarks near our homes and school. We then created these artworks trying to show some of these places.
Lesson Materials (per student):
1 A3 sheet white art paper
watercolour paint
1 black sharpie
Lesson Steps:
1. The children drew the features around their homes with lead pencil.
2. The children then painted their pictures.
3. When dry, the children outlined their drawings with black sharpie.
Student Artworks:
Lesson Background:
We started the year by reading "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl as our class novel. We created these little artworks and also linked our data unit in Maths to the book by graphing which treat we would try first if we ever won a golden ticket.
Lesson Materials (per student):
half an A4 sheet white paper
Coloured pencils
A black sharpie
a lead pencil
1 sheet gold card (slightly larger than the art paper)
Lesson Steps:
1. Use Art for Kids Hub Art for Kids Hub - YouTube to do some directed drawings of a range of sweet treats using lead pencil on the art paper.
2. Colour with coloured pencils.
3. Outline with black sharpie.
4. Stick the artwork onto the gold card.
Lesson Background
I have a beautiful new Year 1/2 class. We made these portraits in week 1 of the new school year as part of our getting-to-know-you activities. I took the basic idea from http://thetalkingwallsmurals.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-klee-inspired-self-portrait-lesson.html and just changed the materials to match what I had available.
Lesson Materials (per student)
1 A4 sheet of white art paper
watercolour paint
1 black sharpie
Lesson Steps
1. Show students how to draw a face using step-by-step instructions.
2. Children follow along, drawing their face using lead pencil.
3. Use watercolour paint to paint sections of the background.
4. When dry, outline the portrait in black sharpie.
Artworks:
1B artworks
Lesson Background:
Our spelling word of the week was "glow" this week, so we spent the week researching fireflies. We watched many videos, read many books and created our own book. We created these artworks using the amazing idea from this website, with just a few changes: http://kathy-angelnik.blogspot.com/2015/06/glow-in-dark-firefly-art-lesson.html
Lesson Materials (per student):
1 jar template on white A4 paper (I just used Google images)
Blue, purple and yellow dye (I used Kindergarten fun dye)
Silver and gold texta
a small blob of white paint
a cotton bud
1 black sharpie
1 lead pencil
1 orange texta
gold glitter glue
a paintbrush for each of the inks and the glitter glue
Lesson Steps:
1. We drew the fireflies onto the jar template with a circle around each, with me demonstrating out the front.
2. We used the purple ink to paint the jar lid, the blue ink to paint around the fireflies, and the yellow ink to paint inside the firefly circles and over the fireflies (warn the children not to paint the yellow too near any big blobs of blue ink- use a tissue to mop up any pooling blue ink first).
3. We used the purple ink to make a few shadows in the blue jar, and the blue ink to make a few shadows in the purple lid.
4. We waited until the ink was dry, then used the black sharpie to colour the fireflies' heads and outine the rest of their bodies.
5. We used the orange texta to colour the fireflies' bottoms.
6. We used the gold and silver pens, and the cotton bud dipped in white paint to dot circles of different sizes all over the blue.
7. We covered over the blue with a layer of glitter glue.
Student Artworks:
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| By Immy |
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| By Emma |
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| By Sera |
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| By Lorcan |
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| By Damon |
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| By Isabel |
Lesson Background: I got this idea from : https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Doodlebug-3D-art-project-6864635?st=7a5302f47409473939e1a960735b8b51
Lesson Materials:
templates from the above product printed onto A4 card
Green acrylic paint for the lead (or print the template onto green paper)
Good quality coloured textas
A gluestick
Scissors
A sheet of black backing paper
Lesson Steps:
We followed the video in the above link, with the only difference being that we painted our leaf template with green acrylic paint, as our school had run out of green paper!
Student Artworks:
Lesson Background:
As a part of our minibeasts unit, I decided to try making these zentangle bug artworks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mark-making-bugs-11278910
Lesson Materials:
1 template enlarged onto A3 paper from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mark-making-bugs-11278910
1 black fine tipped texta
Lesson Steps:
1. We watched this Youtube video and practised zentangle patterns on some scrap paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXWB4VhyKSg
2. I modelled examples of successful and unsuccessful (large shapes, spacing not thought out, big gaps, boring patterns, lack of symmetrical patterns) zentangles on the board and we agreed as a class on what we would all try to achieve in our artwork.
3. The students used their practise zentangles plus the ideas on the template to draw their patterns in.
4. The students then cut out their bugs.
Student Artworks:
Lesson Background:
We have been studying minibeasts this term, and so I decided to make one of the weeks all about lady beetles. We researched them with videos and books, we wrote information reports, and we created these beautiful artworks. I got the idea for the artworks from this website: https://vk.com/album-102299976_245103850
Lesson Materials:
1 sheet A3 art paper, trimmed
1sheet A3 backing paper
oil pastels
a lead pencil
Lesson Steps:
1. We drew the lady beetle, with me modelling each step as they followed along with a lead pencil. I then showed them how to draw large leaves in the background, which they followed along with, placing them and sizing them according to their own preference.
2. I encouraged to children to decide how many spots (7, like the most common ones we had read about in our research? Or they could choose their own).
3. We began colouring the lady beetles by drawing and filling in a large yellow circle on the lady beetle wings, then surrounding it with a thin layer of orange, then colouring the rest of the lady beetle red, trying to make sure there were no white gaps left. After the lady beetle was coloured, I showed them how to use the yellow oil pastel to then go back and, in a circular motion, colour around and out of the yellow spot again, to help blend the yellow/red/orange.
4. I encouraged the children to colour in the leaves using different shades of green and possibly drawing the veins of the leaves in if they wished to. They were then shown how to fill in around the leaves with other shades of green.
5. The children outlined their ladybeetles with black oil pastel.
6. We stuck the pictures onto backing paper.
Student Artworks:
