Adventures in the Art Room
THANK YOU CASSIE STEPHENS FOR THE LESSON IDEA! (cassiestephens.blogspot.com) To learn more about this lesson and view students artwork from last year, click on 4th grade art lessons from the drop down menu and scroll down!
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A big THANKS to artwithmrsnguyen for this fun lesson idea!
4th Graders learned what architecture is, learned about some of the common characteristics found within the Victorian architectural style, and then created a drawing of their own Victorian style house that included those elements!
Students did a great job creating their own houses and I LOVE how unique each one is!
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This student just needs to finish coloring in 1 chimney!
Nearly finished and doing an amazing job!!
This was a fun, quick lesson (it actually only took about 15-20 minutes to make!), and a great way to wrap up the week before the holiday break!!!
Students used a tree tracer from cardboard to trace a tree on a sheet of 9×12″ 80# drawing paper.
They could design their trees anyway they wanted with markers.
Then on a separate sheet of 9×12″ black construction paper, they traced the tree again using pencil. White chalk pastel was then used to draw a thick line along the inside of their tree line.
Kids then smudged the white chalk going away from the tree, in one direction, with their finger to make a glowing effect.
Students then cut out their trees, glued the back of it with a glue stick, and glued down within their glowing lines on their black paper.
Kids had a lot of fun with this mini-lesson, and wanted to make more!
Gotta give a shout out to mrsallainart and 2art.chambers (Two awesome art teachers on Instagram) who had the idea first! Thanks for the idea!
This is one of my FAVORITE art lessons for 2nd grade!! I LOVE each and every one of them!!
(More info. and how they were created below! Plus a little virtual gallery walk video!)
This fun self-portrait lesson combines art exploration in abstract art and color theory!
This lesson took (3) 40 minute art classes to finish.
On the first day of the lesson, students learned about abstract artwork and looked at a slideshow of artwork by various abstract painters (Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock and William de Cooning). We discussed how abstract art focuses mainly on lines, shapes, and colors.
ON DAY 1 After viewing the slideshow and doing a quick demo, students drew an abstract drawing using various lines, and shapes on 12×18″ medium weight tagboard. Students then went over all their lines with crayons being sure to press super hard (later on we would do a crayon wax-resist). They then filled out a short questionnaire with questions asking about their favorite things and things about themselves.
ON DAY 2 They painted their drawings using concentrated liquid watercolors creating a crayon wax-resist. Before painting we reviewed what the primary colors, secondary colors and warm and cool colors were. While kids worked, I took each students photo (which I later printed as a high-contrast black & white photo on printer paper).
ON DAY 3 Students glued their black and white self-portrait onto their painting. I printed these out ahead of time and cut each one out (not only to save time, but to ensure that no one would lose fingers or ears etc. when trying to cut them out themselves!!)
As I was cutting them out, I piled them up on top of each other and thought this was kind of a cool picture in of itself!
Then students cut out their pre-printed sentences into strips (Yep….I also typed up ALL kids answers and printed them out in Word…I know, I know…) and added them to their paintings using a glue stick! I’m not gonna lie….A LOT of prep went into this lesson– BUT–I think they’re too awesome not to do it!
Students are able to create and identify abstract artwork, use a variety of line and shape to create their drawings, learn about abstract artists and their artwork and can identify primary, secondary, warm and cool colors!
I hope you enjoy these awesome abstract self-portraits as much as I do!!
FYI– Parents—-Students at Roosevelt aren’t finished yet— I’ll be taking kids pics next week and then the following week they will finish them up!!! Also my cell decided to die as I was trying to get everyone’s artwork in the video above -so not all student work is in this video unfortunately. I tried!
To view additional abstract self-portraits by 2nd grade from previous years click on the menu and select 2nd grade art lessons and scroll down!
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