Snow art

 

Great project if you have snow.

Jackson Pollock style snow painting. Place watered down paint or food coloring in squirt bottles. block of an area in the snow and students can spray (not mist) in the designated area.

think of a color theme. School colors, cool colors,  warm colors,  or any color combination.

Using books in the Art Room

I try to use book readings for my K-3 grade at least twice a year, and create an art lesson around literature.
This year I have been using http://www.strorylineonline.net/
So far I have used Sophie's Masterpiece, The Night I Followed My Dog,  Stellaluna, A Bad Case of Stripes and the Polar Express. and When Pigasso Met Mootisse.
A few examples of the art created from the book readings. I Also I do lessons with the older students with illustration, graphic art and comics and cover art.



Barnes and Noble has wonderful videos interviewing authors: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-studio/videos-podcasts/index.asp
one I used is from Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid

 

Veggies and Fruit Pictures

Color printable pages
Downloadable images
Project Examples:


Two Projects:
How are you Peeling creating paper collage creatures.

AND
Self Portrait in the style of Giuseppe Arcimoldo collage.

*I stop the video at the 2 min. mark, due to the last two paintings.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Uploaded by Meurglys-III. - Independent web videos.

As an art teacher you are asked to do many different things…

As an art teacher you are asked to do many different things, such as create some ribbons for Halloween awards. Well I cheated and created computer generated ones, printed in color, now laminating, cutting out, hole punching and adding a ribbon to the top… out of breath yet.  I’ll download the file later incase anyone needs last minute ribbons.

Recycled scrap Lamination

I have been working with what to do with scrap lamination (all that stuff that is left after cutting things out). I used some of the stuff collected to create Halloween garland. Depending on your schools Halloween rules, this may be a fall garland. Leaves, pumpkins etc. opposed to ghost, skeletons and bats.

Use permanent black (or colored) markers to draw your theme. Mine s Ghosts. If doing leaves or pumpkins you could just use different colored permanent markers and no paint.

step 1 drawing: 

Step 2 Paint: Oil pastel or just color in with Permanent markers. I use white oil pastel and white tempera paint.

Step 3: Cut out and hole punch the tops of design

Step 4: string to make garland. I use funky looking yarn

Organization

One thing I have changed in my classroom is my portfolio system. I used regular folder and they are not big enough. I tried the stapled poster board which fell apart and was bulky to store. 

What works for me I found the using a 18” by 24” of construction paper folded into a folder. Color coded by grade and decorated by the student. Then laminated for durability, works the best in my classroom.

18” by 24” paper folded in 1/2 and bottom folded by 5 inches

I place a name tag with the students info. on the inside, for the younger K-2 I put a tag on the outside as well.

Decorate and Laminate. If you don’t have a laminator you could use contact paper. Or use a more durable paper like walpaper or poster board.

How we use the portfolio n my art room.  I have regular classroom desks in my art room. Folders are color coded by grade and then kept in the desk . I also use them on the drying rack to hold the art work and when dry then the art pieces can be placed back in the folder and go right back into the desk.

I also use the artsonia.com site. I take a picture with the art piece next to the name tag. That way I know whose art oiece it is without having a list of names that I loose. I just crop the name tag off . All done and very efficient,

Animoto of my students Book Festival contest entries K-7th grade