In this art lesson we captured little fingerprints and adorable expressions in these fingerprint reindeer by the 1st grade classes. We used our thumbs to make a head and body and then added details with sharpie. The children were to try to create a sense of movement in their reindeer. As a final touch we used cotton swabs to dot on glitter paint for snow and maybe a red nose for a Rudolph. This is something Mrs. Ray has done in the past with her 1st graders and I just love it! The 1st grader also loved making pictures using there fingerprints.
In this art lesson we captured little fingerprints and adorable expressions in these fingerprint reindeer by the 1st grade classes. We used our thumbs to make a head and body and then added details with sharpie. The children were to try to create a sense of movement in their reindeer. As a final touch we used cotton swabs to dot on glitter paint for snow and maybe a red nose for a Rudolph. This is something Mrs. Ray has done in the past with her 1st graders and I just love it! The 1st grader also loved making pictures using there fingerprints.
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Kindergartners working hard on their cutting and gluing skills in these too cute chilly penguin collages. The children drew and cut out their own penguins shapes and glued them together. In this exercise we learned how to use white glue with out making a mess, just a dot not a lot! Kindergarteners also used marker to make a patterns on their scarfs. To create snow we used cotton swabs to dot on white paint in the background. I thought it was so funny how most of the kids kept calling the earmuffs, headphones.
Art can tell a story, and stories can inspire art. For this art lesson we read 2 Native American stories Tomie DePaola's The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush and Paul Globe's The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses both with beautiful illustrations. We discussed how artists can be authors too. The first step was to create a radiating sunset with paint. The following class we practiced drawing horses, we talked about the shapes we could use to draw a horse, and we looked at pictures of horses. Then we learned what a silhouette is: the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. These 1st graders did fantastic!, it wasn't easy to draw and cut out a horse. Did you know our school Wawaloam Elementary was named after the Narragansett Tribe Princess Wawaloam who lived over 350 years ago in our area. In Kindergarten we talked about emotions, feelings and how artists can show this in their artwork. After reading a short story about feelings we looked at some artwork and discussed what the artist was trying to tell us about how that person feels. After brainstorming all the different feelings and emotions we could illustrate, the kindergarteners used marker to draw 4 faces with 4 different emotions. In the end the children mounted their faces from side to side or top to bottom onto colored paper .
It's important to know that not only can art be used to create a picture, but also to express emotions. |
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