Kindergarten had some fun with paint! They looked at Picasso's Flowers of Peace and made their own painting inspired by it. They traced their hand and then added their flowers.
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Kindergarten was learning about form in art, as well as reviewing line. Students created a wax resist by drawing lots of colorful lines with florescent color crayons and then painted with florescent tempera cakes. On the final day students cut florescent paper into lines and added them to the bottom. Students were so excited to see their colorful display hanging over the main hall.
Students also spent time exploring form with play dough. They practiced making cones, cubes, cylinders, and spheres too. They were learning about these forms in their classroom. Students excitedly made baby chicks sitting in half an egg shell using model magic. They were hatching chicks in their classrooms and learning all about them. The chicks had just gone back to the farm when they made them, so there were super excited to have these to take home. They made two spheres and a cone for the chick and a pinch pot for the egg. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures. They turned out adorable! Students then moved on to air dry clay and made pinch pots with texture, then painted them the next week. Again, no pictures :( Students took everything home as soon as they made it. We read the story, "Corduroy" by Don Freeman. They loved the fuzzy bear on his adventure to find his missing button and a home. We used corrugated paper to cut out a triangle and rectangles in order to make Corduroy's overalls. We glued them down and traced an oval for Corduroy's head. Students added the rest of the details on their own. They colored Corduroy with crayons, and added a background for him. We also went to town with the yarn again, since they are now experts at adding this for texture. Students had a class period where they were finishing coloring and then were able to get a Corduroy coloring sheet I made. I went around to each group, let them pick out a button and show me were they would like it glued. I used my cordless glue gun to attach the button. Students put their hands in their laps while I did this and I told them when it was okay to touch. They were great listeners!
I read "The Mitten" by Jan Brett to Kindergarten. Students learned all about texture while making observations of the illustrations. Kindergarten then made their own mitten. I gave them a tracer for their mitten and then pulled out crayons and texture plates. The excitement was deafening! When is kindergarten ever not excited and enthusiastic?! They colored patterns, lines, shapes on their mittens and the next week we cut out the mittens and added pieces of yarn for texture. I have to say, the intensity with which the students worked was amazing. This was the quietest my kinders have ever been while they worked. They loved adding the yarn!
Kindergarten used cups and black paint to print overlapping circles. Students enthusiastically printed their papers with black circles! We were trying to make some overlap without filling our paper with too many. The next week, we watched the OK Go video about mixing secondary colors. It was my hope that students would paint (tempera cakes) some primary colors inside the shapes and sometimes mix secondary colors to paint inside. This proved to be a struggle for most. A few decided they would rather just paint all of them brown, and it caught on like wild fire in one of my classes! This class was given primary crayons to color the rest of their shapes and I was happy with how they were shaping up...we just had too much brown already painted. My other class switched to just painting the primary colors. We also had trouble with students using too much water and that caused black to mix in with their colors. Love the concept and will learn from our experimenting for an improved lesson next year!
Kindergarten excitedly commented on some of the heart paintings of Jim Dine. They looked at the shapes and talked about the colors. We are also learning about the primary colors and we talked about how to draw a heart. Since we only have 30 minutes together, I gave them a handout filled with hearts and they practiced drawing them be tracing and then drawing on their own. The next time we met students were given the primary colors and we talked about filling our page with a heart or many hearts. I demonstrated how to paint so we did not mix all of our colors. We wanted to be able to see our primary colors. Students were so excited to see that sometimes the primary colors mixed a little and then made a secondary color. They worked hard to paint so that they did not end up with brown hearts! We added yellow and blue squares of paper and drew hearts with blue oil pastel.
Kindergarten listened to the story, "A Penguin Story", Antoinette Portis. In the story, Edna the penguin searches for something more in her world besides white, black and blue. Her search takes her on a great adventure! Students made their own penguin and were determined to give their penguins a rainbow of colors to see. They painted the background for their penguin and added a torn paper iceberg. We created our penguins step be step with drawing, cutting and gluing shapes. I showed students how to measure their penguin's head and make a hat out of paper. Some students had additional time to add other paper details. Last, we added show with paint. I love how every penguin had it's own personality!
Kindergarten looked at paintings of winter landscapes with great excitement! We picked out all kinds of shapes, lines and fun things we saw in the painting. Students got down to work tearing paper for the snow on the ground, then tracing, cutting and gluing shapes to make their houses. Students added details with smaller shapes and lines. We had quite the array of trees made from crayon lines! We used the handle of our brush to make snow falling on our landscape. Some students added in some additional details like snowmen. I'm disappointed that I only have one photograph to share. Guess I got busy and never took pictures.
Kindergarten has been working hard in art. They have been working on all kinds of skills to help with fine motor development. They have been cutting, gluing and tearing paper. They've also been learning about the elements of art; line, shape and color. Here are a few of their torn paper rainbows. They began with tracing and cutting out a circle for the middle.
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Mrs. Kendell
I was a graphic designer for many years, and then decided to make the leap into art education. I taught elementary art for 8 years. Archives
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