Pop Art Picnic

I did this art lesson with kindergarten. I came up with project after seeing lots of African cloth art lessons and wanted to include simple printing which is part of our curriculum.. I thought of jazzing up the idea a little bit more. Just creating shapes is fine if your looking for a quick 1 class art project. However I thought students could get a better idea of what fabric is for. One of the main things people design fabrics for is for clothes. HELLO! So, by having students create an outfit, draw a picture of themselves wearing it and even showing themselves outside;students were really able to show their imaginations and understand the functional aspects of these designs. There are lots of videos and images on the web for mud cloth fashions and how mud cloth is made that classes watched. I felt this project was pretty successful. The only thing I would change was to demonstrate to students that they could add more colors to their clothing with crayon. Pictures to come.

I did this art lesson last year. I thought it was very successful not only did students learn about landscapes but those different than the ones around them in the city they live in. We looked at the work of Ted Harrison a Canadian artist. I think mountain landscapes or anything with an organic shape lend itself well with glue drawing because as I told students, "it is hard to get a perfect straight line". We first talked about what a landscape is. A lot students recognized that yes the word landscape has the word land in it. So, I tried to make them understand all landscapes have a ground line or horizon line. Everything in the back is the sky, anything resting on the line in front is the ground. Students drew their art in glue and then colored in with oil pastel. Last year I used black glue. I saw a lot of art projects who used that technique. Black glue is just paint and glue mixed together. This time I decided to try just regular glue. I just didn't want ...