tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5006795974086102012024-03-13T20:29:17.200-07:00The Accidental Art TeacherI volunteered to teach art to K-6th grade at a small private school. Here's OUR story.DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-54952334661430707462014-02-09T20:38:00.000-08:002014-02-12T09:49:39.308-08:00Presidents Day portraits 2014<div>
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For Abraham Lincoln's and George Washington's birthday, I had the kids do portraits in an oval paper plate with elements of collage and assemblage woven in. This was just the kindergarten and 1st graders, but it's a good way to introduce collage as well as using non-traditional materials and following instructions! For the face, I had them use cutouts of the Gettysburg Address and Declaration of Independence. One week we did Abe, the next was George. I'm really happy with how these turned out!<br />
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With the K-3rd graders I did some "pop art" that had a Valentines Day theme. It was also a good way to have them do different techniques and media in on project that also ends up looking pretty cool. I used the heart as a theme, but they could interpret it in any many of way or color and were encouraged to go beyond red and pink! I had them do the heart four ways ith 6x6" squares of paper:<br />
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Its amazing how creative the kids could get and how it made them think outside the box (even though were creating in a box) Amazing how setting few rules can free you to be creative. Also, teaching them how to cut and draw hearts is an amazing lesson in symmetry, and following directions, which at this age, is no small task!DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-30286413556210998372014-02-06T19:21:00.004-08:002014-02-06T19:21:44.111-08:00Christmas ornaments 2013With the Holiday Home Tour (<a href="http://sebastopolholidayhometour.com/">sebastopolholidayhometour.com</a>) taking up a huge chunck of my time, its always fun to have the kids do some ornaments that we decorate school with and then they take them home. In 2013 I did several:<br />
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Angels made from popsicle sticks and music note wings, which became an instant classic.<br />
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Wreaths that act as photo frames, made from yarn and pipe cleaners wrapped around a drapery ring.<br />
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Handprint reindeer. There are so many great holiday crafts made from handprints!DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-188205244205919692014-02-06T19:19:00.001-08:002014-02-06T19:19:38.572-08:00Scarecrows from spoons 2013A scarecrow project that I did 5 years ago with the kids was a big hit. It involved getting cheap craftstore wooden spoons and embellishing them with scrap fabric, buttons, beads, strong, straw and other folksy items to make a scarecrow. Hot glue is a must, and so it makes this a fun craft. We did as a part of our Harvest party.<br />
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This fall, I did Sunflowers three different ways with the three different classes.</div>
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Kindergarten-1st Grade:</h3>
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Another one of my absolute favorite fall projects is the two week project using elmer's glue on black paper to draw a sunflower and then the next week coming back over it with chalk pastel!<br />
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I had done the glue/pastel with the older kids two years ago, so I decided to do a 3-D paper sunflower with the "middle" classroom. A paper plate served as the center and yellow construction paper petals.<br />
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Since I wanted to really show them the Van Gogh sunflower and give them a real experience, I chose acrylic as the medium for the older kids. We had a sunflower still life and they had canvas boards and acrylic.<br />
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<br />DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-18805705484811423872014-02-06T18:32:00.001-08:002014-02-06T18:43:36.350-08:00Pasta Pilgrims 2013For Thanksgiving 2013, an all time favorite is the pilgrim made from pasta. I did this with the K-1 class. <a href="http://accidentalartteacher.blogspot.com/search/label/pasta" target="_blank">Check out previous years' pasta projects as well.</a><br />
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In this lesson I had the kids experimenting with positive and negative shapes. In Japan this is called Notan, and you typically start with single square of black paper. Every shape that you cut out, you flip and mirror it outwards, so it can get quite complicated. It teaches the kids about shape, as well as positive and negative shapes.<br />
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For the K-1 kids, I did similar but different project that involved them making single cuts across a paper in a variety of shapes and then gluing them down with some negative space between them.<br />
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DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-90391766142743288542013-10-02T17:20:00.000-07:002013-10-02T17:20:09.686-07:00Digital way to archive kids artHere's a nice looking app for your mobile device that stores and organizes artwork. I photograph the kids artwork already, but I think I might need to check this out as well.<br />
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<a href="http://www.artkiveapp.com/">ArtKive</a><br />
http://www.theartofed.com/2013/09/30/artkive-clutter-free-art-storage-for-families/<br />
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This week, with my 4th-6th graders, I did a project inspired by contemporary American artist Chuck Close, who is known for his larger than life portraits using a grid and a pixelated look. He had learning disabilites and also had a medical condition that confined him to a wheelchair.<br />
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Here are some nice videos about Chuck Close.<br />
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So, to begin with, I photographed each student and went home and applied a 12x18 grid over the photo.<br />
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With this gridded picture of themselves, they had to make a grid on a 12x18 piece of paper. This proved to be just as difficult as anything. Thankfully, the kids are learning about grids and math factors with their teacher Ms. Kinser, so this reinforced it. Getting this right was a challenge and tested their patience and left/right brain sensibility.<br />
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Once the tears had been wiped away from the grid, we went on to transferring the major lines of their face. My goal had been to get to color the first class, but the intro, grid and starting line work took my allotted hour, so I will update next time!<br />
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I am very happy with how many of the kids really took to this. Even the ones who struggled, put in a good fight, and the end result of the PROCESS will make their brains stronger.<br />
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Ah, the smell of apples in September and the pitter-patter of Kindergartners! A fall classic is apple stamping, but I gave it a bit of a twist this year by having them assemble it into a tree. My K-1 class only has 30 minutes and this was a non-stop lesson with three different paint stations, three different parts and three colors that had to rotate 12 kids through.<br />
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I cut apples in half and then collected leaves (I used cherry leaves since apple leaves are not very flat)<br />
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The apple station was red, leaf station green and the bark station was paper bags that they used brushes to explore texture on.
The kids really got into the stamping and art really feels like art when they a re slopping the paint around! Its amazing to see the reactions to the young kids exploring texture and printing.<br />
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In the next lesson, after paint had dried, we cut out the apples, leaves and the trunks were cut from tracings of their arm and hand.<br />
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This year, we are having a school-wide focus on North America, and American history in several grades. In music, the kids were learning 'America the Beautiful,' so I decided to do something that tied into the song in art class.<br />
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The K-1 class did one picture that was their choice of imagery from the first two stanzas...all the most common phrases:<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I showed the kids some imagery from a book that had some wonderful illustrations, and we discussed spacious, amber, grain, etc. The technique we used was torn paper. I do this so they don't get to worked up about drawing or cutting exact shapes. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">My educational goals in this lesson were to teach the kids to use color, shape and texture. Tearing (with some cutting) is a good way to get some interesting shapes. Then the kids were to think about their arrangement before gluing and try to use layering with background and foreground objects to create depth. They did a good jobs for kids this young!</span></div>
DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-69677503643852960742013-09-03T15:15:00.002-07:002013-09-03T15:15:40.017-07:00Back to school 2013Its already Fall! And I still haven't posted many of my Springtime projects! Bad teacher;-( Well that will allow me to sprinkle them during the Fall when I am inevitably busy.<br />
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Our little school has about 40 kids, with a large K-2 contingent, so that allows me to do more focused projects with the older 3-6th kids and lots of fun crafty projects with the young ones! This year I'm going to focus on American artists as well as American themes. Paired with a good dose of theory and technique.<br />
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Something that inspired me, for a potential project this year, was this artist' blog about collaborating with her 4-year old daughter. I might need to do a project where I divide a sheet into parts and each child has like 5 minutes to draw something and then pass it along, hopefully building on each other's drawings in a fun surreal way??<br />
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Stay turned for some fun projects coming down the pike!DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-19674946290536670372013-07-31T15:12:00.000-07:002013-07-31T15:12:00.151-07:00Asian Plum Blossoms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the Springtime and as study of Asian painting, I had the younger kids do a study of the plum blossoms, with black paint branches, pink tissue paper and green "celadon" paper vases.DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-48598894246230256712013-07-31T15:07:00.001-07:002013-07-31T15:08:29.491-07:00Greek vases 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another project that I did two years ago, this dovetails with the 5th-6th study of ancient Greece. The kids viewed some examples of the shapes and decorations of greek vases. Then they folded the orange paper in half and drew half the vase. I did not limit their shapes but did want them to put handles and base and top on it. Then they decorated with black marker to simulate repeating design and athletic figures.DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-2702093786013090742013-04-17T20:54:00.001-07:002013-04-17T20:54:45.402-07:00TangramsThis was a fun project that our other teachers did with the kids on a "Fun Friday." The results were too cute and artistic to not post here as well. Lots of fun combos of triangles!<br />
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This project was kind of a three-in-one lesson<br />
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I was inspired by projects that I have seen that involve doing two similar but opposite drawings and then slicing them and putting them on accordian-folded paper.<br />
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I told the kids about Andy Warhol and his many technicolor portraits of celebrities. I also walked them thru drawing a face. We had already done an eye earlier in the year. The next step was to photocopy their pencil drawing, so they would have identical copies, and also not ruin their nice pencil drawing.<br />
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Once they had the two faces, they used colored markers to color the different parts of the face. My goal was to have complimentary colors like green/red hair, blue/orange skin, purple/yellow eyes.
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In a repeat of a<a href="http://accidentalartteacher.blogspot.com/2011/05/celtic-crosses.html" target="_blank"> project I did 2 years ago</a>, I had the K-1 group make crosses for St. Patrick's Day. Tinfoil, pencils to emboss with, paint and some construction paper. The main concepts are pattern, and how to use paint to "antique" the metal. Fun and simple.<br />
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Being that its springtime now, and the kids have been learning about insects, I had the idea to do bees with the little kids.<br />
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This was a fun multi-step project that turned out great. I did explain a bit about the parts of a bee, and they used paper, paint, and some foam packing material for the wings.<br />
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I'm always amazed at how much personality the kids can put into their art. It is always much more charming and evocative than the sample I show them!DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-39920141680843724132013-03-15T11:11:00.001-07:002013-03-15T11:41:31.028-07:00Color Value landscapes<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F113063462393869167883%2Falbumid%2F5847845424842962801%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>
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This project turned out better than I hoped. A few weeks ago, I had the kids paint 4 sheets of paper with dark-light versions of a color. Most people chose purple, blue or green. Those had to dry, so we picked it up a couple weeks later.<br />
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This lesson involved both color value and the idea of perspective and how distant objects are usually less complex looking and lighter. The kids had to layer their painted papers from light at the top to dark at the bottom. The way they chose to cut and overlap also had to attempt to get sharper and more complex shapes in the foreground and softer shapes in the background.
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I am doing "stained glass" with all the kids for our European International study.<br />
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Before the lesson, I showed them this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvAV_CBDk5g" target="_blank">clip from Sister Wendy</a>. It explained briefly about some English stained glass and tidbit of history.<br />
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The first step was to get clear plastic/acetate (report covers and sheet protectors work great for letter sized-but for larger ones I used large sheets of 5mil plastic from TAP)</div>
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I mixed up some white glue and water and then had the kids arrange small scraps of tissue paper on the plastic and really make sure that the paper was nice and wet and gluey. I let these dry, and made some black card-stock frames. Final touch was black sharpie marker to outline shapes and other details.</div>
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<br />DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-78504192413458920962013-02-01T10:40:00.002-08:002013-02-10T20:52:20.731-08:00Studying EuropeEvery year, the school picks a geographic theme for their International Study. This year it is Europe (it usually is a continent or general area of the world) I try to do some art lessons that cater to that theme and also provide decoration for the annual "International Luncheon" where the parents bring in food from that region and they have a celebration.<br />
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For European art I did several things:<br />
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The younger kids make paper Dala Horse from Sweden. This was to emphasize, cutting, pasting and decorating. The real horses are wooden sculptures, but these were made from red and yellow tagboard, cut and then decorated in a folk art style.<br />
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The 2-4 grade did "coats of arms" shield that they made using elements that meant something to them or told a story. I told them about heraldry and the meanings of certain colors, shapes and symbols. They did this on paper bag paper to make them look old.<br />
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All the kids did "stained glass" which is a traditional European church/castle art form. We watched a quick Sister Wendy video on stained glass history and then the kids used tissue paper and white glue to collage the colors onto clear sheets of acetate. We will fame them in black tagboard in gothic and romanesque window shapes.DENNIS BOLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13378305766040113798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500679597408610201.post-38037417739752884282013-02-01T10:26:00.003-08:002013-02-01T10:30:28.713-08:00Christmas Art 2012<embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F113063462393869167883%2Falbumid%2F5840049955285620657%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed><br />
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It seems like the whole month of November and into December was devoted to Christmas ornaments and decor that got used for the Holiday Home tour decorating the school. Here's a roundup of those items:<br />
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Popsicle stick snowflakes got mentioned in an <a href="http://accidentalartteacher.blogspot.com/2012/11/snowflakes-from-popsicle-sticks.html" target="_blank">earlier post. </a>Smaller versions of these got painted white and placed on the Christmas Tree.<br />
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The K-2 class made the old standby of paper plate snowmen. Always a fun project. They decorated the school lobby.<br />
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We also made handprint Santas with red, white and beige paint, decorated with some buttons and cotton.<br />
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The younger kids used popsicle sticks to make triangles that we turned into Christmas Tree frames for a photo. Super easy, but fun!
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Getting ready for Christmas already! In fact this project will be decoration for our Holiday Home Tour which benefits the school. We have 6 homes decorated and the school itself. <a href="http://sebastopolholidayhometour.weebly.com/" target="_blank">So if you like home tours buy your tickets here!</a><br />
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On to the snowflakes...This is a multi-stage project and the first step was having the kids construct snowflakes from popsicle sticks..lots of them. I had them use white glue since it allows for them to adjust the design, eventhough it does not dry as fast as hot glue.
The fun part has been to see how different the kids approach this concept. In the end there will be K-6th snowflakes, and all grade levels can do this.<br />
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After all the snowflakes dried, I spray painted them red. This is step best done by adults. Smaller snowflakes, I painted white and the kids will glitter them for the Christmas Tree.<br />
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We just put them up in the high walls of the School lobby and they really add a graphic punch and some kid-art quirkiness. Love them!<br />
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Pleasant Hill Christian Welcomes Sunflower Preschool to its newly renovated portable. The PHCS kids have done some wonderful sunflower art over the years and I put a selection of that on banners to welcome the new kids and brighten up the building. Have fun!
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With the older kids, we did an exercise in drawing the eye. They used pencil, and the goal was to breakdown the parts of the eye and try to draw what they saw in the mirror and not what they think an eye looks like...paying special attention to shading, shape and light/dark.<br />
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