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.

Art at Home for the Week of May 18

This week's theme is all about learning about famous artists.   Scroll down to find the lesson for your grade level.  Don't forget, you can send me your artwork for our virtual art gallery!

Concentric Circles 
Inspired by Alma Woodsey Thomas
For Grades K and 1

Alma Woodsey Thomas was born in 1891 and died in 1978. 
She was an African-American Expressionist painter and art educator. 
She is best known for her colorful abstract paintings. She lived and
worked mostly in Washington, D.C.  

Look at the paintings below by Alma Woodsey Thomas. 
Can you find the circle in the center? 
How many rows of circles go around the middle circle in each painting? 
Those outside rings of circles are called “concentric circles”. 
You will be making a piece of artwork showing concentric circles
just like Alma Woodsey Thomas. 
Hers are made by painting, yours will be made tearing or cutting bits of paper.

Materials:

Paper of many different colors for cutting or ripping (if you don’t have construction paper,
you can use wrapping paper, magazine pages, colored copy paper or anything you can find!)

White square paper to work on (if you have rectangle paper, you can cut it into a square).

Glue

Watch this video of Ms. Goldman demonstrating the project before you start!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poksKZ4Y_KQ

Steps:

Cut out a circle from one color and glue it in the center of your square paper.

Tear or cut your first color into little pieces

Glue the pieces in a circle around the center circle 

Tear or cut your second color into little pieces

Glue these pieces in a circle around your last circle

Keep going like this until you almost reach the edges of your paper

Flower Designs Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe
For Grades 2 and 3

(Second graders, you will recognize and already be familiar with this artist!
When you look at the slide show below, make sure to keep an eye out for the
Red Poppy painting we studied earlier in the year! )

Georgia O’Keeffe was an American painter known for her paintings of flowers.
A single flower was painted large enough to fill the paper! Look at the slides of
her paintings below. Notice the variety of petal shapes and the use of bright colors.

Georgia O'Keeffe Video

Today you will create a flower design!

Materials:

• Paper 
• Pencil
• Small circular object to trace, such as a spice jar lid
• Black sharpie, marker or crayon
• Crayons

Steps:
Using a pencil, draw the middle of a flower in the top half of the paper.
You could trace a circular object, or draw a different shape such as a diamond or a triangle.

One at a time, draw three layers of petals around the middle. The petal layers can
be the same shape or each layer can be different: rounded, triangular, square,
wavy, or bumpy. To prevent petals from bunching up on one side, turn the paper
each time you draw a petal. It’s so much easier!

If your flower is small after drawing three layers of petals, add another layer.

Draw a wavy stem with four lines. Add some leaves.

Using your black sharpie, marker or crayon, trace your pencil lines. 

Add patterns inside the center and in each petal layer of your flower

Finish by coloring the flower design with crayons.

Louise Nevelson Assemblages

For Grades 4 and 5

Assemblage: art made with found objects and cast-off materials

Assemblage art means taking what most people would view as useless

and arranging it in an artistic manner, or placing it with traditional

materials or in a particular setting that elevates it from junk to art.

Art created in this manner is often referred to as “assemblage” and

endless varieties of it exist.

We will look at the work of Louise Nevelson, an American sculptor (who emigrated from Russia when she was three years old) known for her large, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.

Monochromatic: having or consisting of one color or hue

A very large assemblage by Louise

Another example of Louise Nevelson's assemblages

1.Looking at the photograph below, collect around your home (with permission) a collection of recycled materials or small wooden or plastic or metal pieces and parts that you could make a sculpture with. Find some big, medium and small size objects.

You may find buttons, paper clips, bottle caps, bread bag tabs, pennies, popsicle sticks, broken crayons and pencils, wood scraps, nails and screws and bolts, sticks and rocks from outside.... and so much more!

2. Watch the video below.

video lesson and demonstration for creating an assemblage

3. Lay out your objects before you start gluing. You can think about using different shapes and sizes of objects, and think about using repetition (gluing multiple of the same objects).

4. When you complete your assemblage and if you have a single color of paint, like Ms Nevelson, paint your entire sculpture one color. If you do not have paint, that is fine too.