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!!