This art lesson began with making a hive using paint and bubble wrap to create a print on our blue paper. Then we used our thumbs dipped in yellow paint to make thumbprint bees.
Bee Safe! Bee Respectful! Bee Responsable! Our school mascot is a bee and now that spring has sprung it's a great time to learn more about bees in the art class. In kindergarten we started off closing our eyes and imagining we were bees buzzing around while we listened to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee. Afterwards the children shared about their short adventure imagining they were a bumble bee zooming around. Some children imagined they were flying from flower to flower while others imagined they were flying really fast.
We learned a lot about bees we didn't know about before, such as: bees live in large family groups called hives or colonies, they only sting if they feel threaten or are trying to protect their hive family, bees make a lot honey, so much honey they don't mind sharing as long as they have enough for the winter and most importantly bees are super pollinators and essential to our flower and food source. The children were quite surprise to learn all the fruits and vegetables they love that need bees to pollenate them like cherries, watermelon, apples, carrots, avocado, oranges, almonds, green beans and chocolate! So now we say 'more bees please!'
This art lesson began with making a hive using paint and bubble wrap to create a print on our blue paper. Then we used our thumbs dipped in yellow paint to make thumbprint bees.
Next art class we talked about collage and how to make something out of cut paper instead of drawing it. The kinders used black marker to give their bees their stripes and wings. The bees really took on a personality when the kindergartens were done. The last touch was to use collage to create a garden for the bees to pollenate.
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In 1st Grade we started a unit on symmetry. We looked at and discussed Wycinanki (vy-chee-nan-kee) the art of Polish Paper cuts. Wycinanki started long ago in the mid 1800's, shepherds cut designs out of tree bark and leather to pass the time. These beautiful designs were used to decorate furniture, hung in windows and were made as gifts. The tradition of Wycinanki has been passed down through many generations and is still practiced today.The subject matter usually consisted of trees, plants, flowers and different birds and the designs are symmetrical, the same on both sides. After looking at pictures of different Wycinanki, talking about symmetry and layers, 1st graders began their own design. Starting with a folded black piece of paper we drew and cut our own original design. Trees, birds and flowers were our inspiration just like most Wycinanki artists. Afterwords the pieces were unfolded and glued to white paper. As we continued 1st graders were to cut out colored paper and collage onto their silhouetted design. their designs has to be symmetrical while adding layers of color. These paper cut collages are bold and so unique, the 1st graders imaginations really came alive in these artworks.
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