My teen daughter actually suggested we make these this year. Can you believe that. Homemade play dough is so easy to make and so adaptable for different projects.
2 nd grade students made animal mask this week. They looked at images of African mask that used animals. We talked about the reasons why different people in Africa used mask in various ceremonies or celebrations. We also looked at a map of Africa, so students could realize how large Africa is. I pointed out mask of different countries. The objective was that when animals were represented in mask it was because the maker want to represent the quality or spirit of that animal. I had students choose an animal for their animal masked based on their perceived characteristic of that animal. For example, a student choose a jaguar because it was fast or a unicorn because it was magical and rare. Yeah, and I was not about to tell a kid unicorns aren’t real. This lesson was a challenge and took a lot of small group time. Some students had a harder time figuring out how to cut the negative space shapes without destroying their work. If I did this lesson again. I would tell all students to ju...
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 ...
When I was kid I loved painting rocks. Maybe there's just something about taking something natural and making it a techno colored dream. Anyway taking a few branches and sticking them in air dry clay is so adaptable to different ages and even seasons.
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