But... do you see what I see?
Rudolph:
Rudolph:
Rudolph:
Chupacabra:
Yes? No?
(I love them all!)
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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Monday, December 04, 2017
Rudolph, Rudolph, Uh... Rudolph?
My students love directed drawings and guided art lessons that introduce them to lines, colors, and different mediums, and I very much enjoy seeing how their sequencing and fine motor skills develop over the course of our year together. I remember this particular lesson appearing several years ago at ARTventurous, a fun blog full of creativity that continues to provide plenty of inspiration for regular education and art teachers alike. My Super Stars created their versions of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with our school's art teacher just in time to brighten up our classroom for the holidays.
Rudolph:
Rudolph:
Rudolph:
Rudolph:
Rudolph:
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Changes Happen in Kindergarten
Kindergarten: Where magical things happen in the course of a year...
Below are self portraits of several of my Stars. During the first week of school, I asked my students to draw themselves using a large oval, the letter "T" (eyebrow line and bridge of nose), and to look in a mirror to determine their eye and hair color(s) to add to the portrait as details. I then tucked those portraits away for safe-keeping.
Two weeks ago, I reintroduced the lesson to the Stars for a second time, and then hung their August portraits (left side) next to their May renderings (right side).
It's an art lesson that takes my breath away each and every year:
First grade, here they come!
Below are self portraits of several of my Stars. During the first week of school, I asked my students to draw themselves using a large oval, the letter "T" (eyebrow line and bridge of nose), and to look in a mirror to determine their eye and hair color(s) to add to the portrait as details. I then tucked those portraits away for safe-keeping.
Two weeks ago, I reintroduced the lesson to the Stars for a second time, and then hung their August portraits (left side) next to their May renderings (right side).
It's an art lesson that takes my breath away each and every year:
First grade, here they come!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Egg-Ceptional Eggs
This morning my students enjoyed Reschenka's Eggs, by Patricia Polacco during storytime:
The beautiful psanky eggs captured their imagination, but several students expressed apprehension about their ability to make "pretty eggs" in our art center, or when journaling. I quickly cut out tagboard egg shapes, and showed my Stars how to trace them on paper, with some eggs "hiding" behind others:
Take a look at what they created:
EGG-CEPTIONAL!
The beautiful psanky eggs captured their imagination, but several students expressed apprehension about their ability to make "pretty eggs" in our art center, or when journaling. I quickly cut out tagboard egg shapes, and showed my Stars how to trace them on paper, with some eggs "hiding" behind others:
Take a look at what they created:
EGG-CEPTIONAL!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Adopted Ancestors
I adopted ancestors over the weekend. I have no idea what their names are, but their expressions captured my imagination and hit my funny bone all in one fell swoop...
(Honestly, couldn't you see some froo-froo valentine-y phrase above their heads extolling the joys of love, romance, and marriage?)
The tintype photograph was found in a coppery/metal frame that yes, I put back after scanning the photo:
I LOVE it!
*****
~ Right as my ancestor-adoption-addiction begins, The Thrift Shop Romantic concurs that the scanner is a most trusted friend to both me and my ephemera...
*****
Perhaps my great-great-great-great (how many greats?) relative above should have remembered this:
Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges whatever is given to her.
So - if you give her crap, You will receive more back than any one human being can ever handle.
*****
(Honestly, couldn't you see some froo-froo valentine-y phrase above their heads extolling the joys of love, romance, and marriage?)
The tintype photograph was found in a coppery/metal frame that yes, I put back after scanning the photo:
I LOVE it!
*****
~ Right as my ancestor-adoption-addiction begins, The Thrift Shop Romantic concurs that the scanner is a most trusted friend to both me and my ephemera...
*****
Perhaps my great-great-great-great (how many greats?) relative above should have remembered this:
Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges whatever is given to her.
So - if you give her crap, You will receive more back than any one human being can ever handle.
*****
Friday, December 05, 2008
We Wish You a Merry Chris-MOOSE
~ In case you were wondering, you can take the girl out of Alaska, but you can't take Alaska out of the girl...
Start with brown paint, ticklish toes, and a squirmy kindergartner...let the footprint dry, and bring back Mr. or Miss Squirmy for some more kinesthetic fun...adding the handprints (antlers/rack):
Cut out and glue on black construction paper "nostrils," and cut out the moose head:
Glue the head onto a sheet of pre-printed paper ("Merry Chris-Moose"):
And then laminate (the footprint and handprints are kindergarten keepsakes, don't you know?) before adding googly eyes and sparkly tinsel across the antlers (not photographed, but I use a hole punch on each antler, then use a length of wired sparkly stars across the moose's head, taping the wire in place on the backside of the colored paper, out of view) for that holiday touch:
*****
If you'd prefer to wish everyone a Merry Chris-MOUSE, just have your students paint ONE hand, pressing their print onto paper sideways (so fingers and heel of hand run east/west instead of north/south). After the handprint has dried, add a small (very small!) pink pom pom to the end of the middle finger as a nose, glue a small googly eye above, and add a yarn or pipecleaner tail (the pipecleaner can be twisted around a pencil first to make it curly). Add a small pink oval ear, and glue the mouse to the front of a card or piece of construction paper.
*****
What's a moose? THIS is a moose:
Start with brown paint, ticklish toes, and a squirmy kindergartner...let the footprint dry, and bring back Mr. or Miss Squirmy for some more kinesthetic fun...adding the handprints (antlers/rack):
Cut out and glue on black construction paper "nostrils," and cut out the moose head:
Glue the head onto a sheet of pre-printed paper ("Merry Chris-Moose"):
And then laminate (the footprint and handprints are kindergarten keepsakes, don't you know?) before adding googly eyes and sparkly tinsel across the antlers (not photographed, but I use a hole punch on each antler, then use a length of wired sparkly stars across the moose's head, taping the wire in place on the backside of the colored paper, out of view) for that holiday touch:
*****
If you'd prefer to wish everyone a Merry Chris-MOUSE, just have your students paint ONE hand, pressing their print onto paper sideways (so fingers and heel of hand run east/west instead of north/south). After the handprint has dried, add a small (very small!) pink pom pom to the end of the middle finger as a nose, glue a small googly eye above, and add a yarn or pipecleaner tail (the pipecleaner can be twisted around a pencil first to make it curly). Add a small pink oval ear, and glue the mouse to the front of a card or piece of construction paper.
*****
What's a moose? THIS is a moose:
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