Sidewalk Chalk

Mrs. Purser/ Mrs. Miner's Class

Talya, Mr. Allen's class, and Kali

 

Materials:

-sidewalk chalk

Sidewalk Chalk Overview: For this lesson I didn’t just let the students draw whatever they wanted, whenever I do that most of the class scribbles and gives up quickly.  Instead of that I had the kids trace one another’s outlines and fill them in with whatever they want to be when they grow up, impossible things like mermaids, santa clauses and princesses are allowed.

1- Each student gets 2 pieces of chalk, sharing is strongly encouraged.

2- Partner up and trace each other’s outlines onto the sidewalk.  

3- Fill your outline in.
4- If you have extra time the students can draw whatever they want. 

Taryn, Ashley, Samantha, Azi, Leah, Mrs. Cook's class, Mrs. Broadbent's class, Ryan and Sam

Titan, Brynlee, Coltan, RJ, Danner, Elle, and Danny

Maya, Ian, Noah, Kamree, Josh, and Macy

 

Monsters

Materials:

- big white sheets of construction paper

- watercolors

- paintbrushes

- pencils

- sharpies

- crayons

 

Monsters Overview:  These Monsters only have two requirements: a texture or a pattern, and a background.  We drew them in crayon first and then painted over the crayon with watercolor.  Remind the students that their monsters can look like anything they want, it can have no eyes or fifty eyes, it’s all up to them.

Karli, Bradley, Addy, Jayda, Brittany, Charly and Levi, Tristen, Sami, Dillan, Nadia, and Brandon

1- Sketch your monster lightly with a pencil.  Younger students can skip to step 2.

2- Draw over your sketch with sharpies and crayons.  Don’t forget to add a pattern or a texture!

3- Paint it with watercolor.

4- Put it on the drying rack, you’re done!
 

Harry, April, Parker and Taylee

Maya, Parker, Brynli, Harrison, Brynn

Spencer, Jessica, Dax, Karli, and Stockton

Exquisite Corpse

Karina, Zach, Lilly and Elizabeth

Materials:

- crayons

- white paper

Exquisite Corpse Overview:  An exquisite corpse is an art game where one person draws a part of an image and another person draws the other part.  (It can also be played with words to write a story.)  The way we played is the first person draws the top half of a creature and the second person draws the bottom half.  The students can draw just about any kind of creature; animals, people, monsters or aliens are all fine.  This lesson was a filler lesson, so only a few classes did this.

Ben, Hadley, Wyatt, Carlee, Josh, Alexis, Samantha, Emily, Carlee and Danee

1- Fold your paper in half hamburger style.

2- Draw 2 lines that cross the crease in the middle, when the lines are drawn correctly you can see them on both the top half and the bottom half of the paper even when it is folded in half. These lines are where the sides of the torso will be, so the two halves of your body line up nicely.

3- Write the word “top” on the top of the paper and “bottom” on the bottom or the paper.  Write your name in the top corner of the page.

4- Draw the top half of any creature on the top half of the page.  KEEP THE PAPER FOLDED IN HALF WHILE YOU DO THIS or at least a few students will forget that they’re only drawing half of a creature.  They should include both arms, the top of the torso and the head.  The body should be drawn as if it is growing out from between the two lines.

5- Collect the papers and shuffle them.

6- Pass the papers randomly around the room.  Students cannot peek at the top half.  If a students gets their paper back give them a different one.  

7- Now we draw the bottom half!  Including the bottom of the torso, and the legs.  
8- Once the students are finished drawing, have them find the person who drew the top half and give it back to them, whoever drew the top gets to keep the paper.
 

Azi, Braxton, Colton, Shelby, Jordyn, and Kiari

Jonny, Kennedy, Camree, Kylee, Ronan, Mikele, Mckenzie, Stratford, Carter, Trey, Nate, and Karina

Model Magic Polar Bears

Materials:

- one small package of white model magic for each student

-permanent markers

Chelsey, Alyvia, Danny, Allie, Leah and Strat

Polar Bears Overview:  Not all classes got to make these polar bears.  Only the classes that earned it by getting 80 points in my star reward system.  Here’s how my star sysem works: each class can earn up to 5 behavioral points, or stars, in a week.  When a class gets to 80 stars they get to make model magic polar bears.  This year only about half the classes in the school earned 80 stars.

Kylee, Porter, Karina, Zach and Lilly

1- Roll your whole clump of model magic into a ball.

2- Split your ball into two equal parts. Set one aside until step 4.

3- Spit one of the balls into two unequal parts, one should be about one third the size of the other.  Roll these two parts into balls.  One will become the head and the other will be the body.

4- Take the biggest ball, the one we did not split apart in the last step, and pinch a small piece off.  This should be about one fourth the size of the head, it will become the nose.

5- Take the ball that will become the head and connect the nose ball to it, then pinch two small round ear shapes into the top. Your head is done for now, you’ll draw the eyes and mouth on with a marker later.

6- Take the medium ball, or the body piece, and roll it into an elongated sphere, like a big pill.

7- Connect the head to the body shape.

8- Now we’re going to make 4 legs out of the large ball that is left over.  First, split it in half.  Second, take those halves and  split them both in half.  You should have four equal parts, roll them into balls.

9- Roll these balls into long pill shapes for the short legs of the bear.

10- Attach the legs to the bear’s body in whatever pose you want your bear to be in.

11- Once your bear is all put together, pinch a short tail shape out of the bottom.

12- Draw the face and the paws onto your bear with permanent markers.  

12- Write your initials on the bottom and put your bear onto the shelf where we’ll have it sit for a week while it drys out

Jonny, Ashley and Eliza

Alyvia, Caleb, Travvon, Braden, Katie, and Talya

Made by: Mrs. Tanner's 4th grade class

Mandalas

Carson

Chloee

Materials:

-markers

-copies of mandala designs

Mandalas Overview: Since the last lesson, the paint chip bears, were pretty difficult and many classes were not quite done with their bears we needed an easy filler lesson.  I found these mandala coloring pages online.

1-  Pass out the mandala patterns and color them in!

Mrs. Larson's class

Paint Chip Bears

bear pattern paper

Materials:

Bears:

-copies of bear pattern paper

-paint color chips

-brass fasteners

-scissors

-glue

-crayons

-black permanent markers

Backgrounds:

-large sheets of construction paper

-oil pastels

-assorted colors of scrap paper

Teddy Bears Overview: These bears are made out of construction paper and those colored paint chips that you can pick up at home improvement stores, their arms and legs are movable because they are attached by brass fasteners, not glued on.  We also made backgrounds for the bears so they could be put into a local art show for elementary aged students at the Spring Creek Festival.  This project took most classes at least 2 weeks.

Bears:

1- Have each student choose a color among the paint swatches, they’ll need 2 pages of the same color.

2- Cut out the two rectangles on the bear pattern paper, and glue them to the back of the two paint swatch papers.  Once this step is done one side will be the color and the other side will be the bear patterns.

3- Cut out the body of the bear, don't cut out the limbs until later.

4- Color in the shapes of the belly, nose and ear holes, then cut them out.  (1st and 2nd grade can draw the ear holes onto the bear with marker.)

5- Glue the shapes of the belly, nose and ear holes onto the colored side of the bear body.  

6- Draw eyes above the nose with permanent marker.

7- Cut out the limbs.  Students can choose to keep the claws on or just cut them off.

8-  Poke holes in the spots on the body and limbs where the brass fasteners will go through the paper to connect the arms and legs. We used thumbtacks to poke the holes and pieces of foam core poster boards as cutting boards.

9- Connect the limbs with brass fasteners.

Your bears are finished!

By Emmalee

Backgrounds:

The second week of this lesson we made background for out bears.  It can be anywhere: under water, in space, a candy castle, a roller coaster or maybe just a normal bear cave near a river for the bear to fish in.  I let the students use their imaginations.  

- Start with one large sheet of colored construction paper for each student.

- Use scraps of construction paper and oil pastels to make any place the students want.

-Once the background is finished each student needs to write one sentence that starts with “My Bear.”  For example: “My bear is exploring Mars.” or “My bear lives in an ice cream shop so she can eat all the ice cream she wants.”

- For the students who got into the art show, we put Velcro on the back of the bears to connect them to their backgrounds so they can still take them off and play with them.  (Unfortunately, I couldn’t afford to buy enough velcro for all 450 of my students.) 

Camilla, Braxton, Hannah, Addie, Hayden, and Anna

Who is this pretty lady?  It's me, Mrs. Cambria!

Hannah, Amelia, and Aubrey, all 3 sisters were in the art show!

Valentines Hearts

Materials:

     Week 1

-quartered sheets of construction paper, assorted colors for 3rd-5th grade
-Halved sheets of construction paper, assorted colors for 1st and 2nd grade.  

-construction paper crayons

-assorted paint colors (We used powder paint)

-paint brushes

-masking tape

-1 whole sheet of black construction paper for each student 
      Week 2

-oil pastels

-assorted stamps

-plates of paint to dip stamps into

Valentines Hearts Overview: These Hearts are based on the artist Jim Dine’s heart paintings, they are not the usual pretty Valentines Day hearts with lace.  They are a little bit abstract and very colorful.  This is a 2 week project.  1st and 2nd grade will paint 2 hearts and 3rd-5th grade will paint 4 hearts.

by Jim Dine

Week One:

1- Each student starts with 1 whole sheet of black construction paper.   1st and 2nd graders get  2 sheets of halved construction paper, 3rd-5th graders get 4 sheets of quartered construction paper.

2- Fold the smaller sheets in half and draw half a heart touching the crease.  Demonstrate the correct way and the wrong way to cut hearts.  Once the students understand how to make hearts go ahead and cut them out.

*The important part of this step is to keep the 4 outside shapes, the hearts that we cut out are not important.  (We saved them and wrote notes to their teachers on them.)

3-  Tape the 2 or 4 heart shapes to the black construction paper with masking tape.  Make sure the tape does not overlap the heart shaped holes in the smaller paper.  These sheets mask the parts of the black paper underneath that we don’t want to get paint on.  

4- Paint each of the heart shapes one solid color, no paint mixing.  The students can use a different color for each heart or they can paint all their hearts with the same color.

5- Put them on the drying rack!  LEAVE THE HEART SHAPES TAPED ON, DO NOT PEEL  THEM OFF.  

*this all usually takes all of one class.  If there is extra time students can decorate the hearts they cut out in step 2.

It should look like this near the end, before you peel the extra paper layer off.

Week Two:  

1- Scribble about 3 colors of oil pastel onto each heart.

2- Stamp all the hearts with whatever colors and whatever shapes you want.  The oil pastel layer underneath will make most stamp shapes appear random.

3- Drying rack

4- Once all the paint is dry, carefully peel off the layer of construction paper heart shapes off to reveal 2/4 perfectly shaped abstract hearts!

Ade

Mother's Day Butterflies

Materials:

-cardboard toilet paper rolls

-construction paper cut 4 inches wide, assorted colors

-whole sheets of construction paper, assorted colors

Butterflies Overview:  We made these butterflies for Mother’s Day.  We collected toilet paper rolls for about a month before this project.

Karli, Ian and Jayda

1- Each student needs one toilet paper roll, one rectangle of paper cut 4 inches thick, and one whole sheet of construction paper.

2- Cut a thin strip of paper off one of the short edges of the 4 inch rectangle, this will become the antennae.

3- Cut the thin strip of paper in half and glue it to the top middle of the rectangular paper, flip the paper over and draw a face right under the antennae, and decorate the rest of that paper.

Hand wings from step 7

4- Apply a lot of glue all over the back of the rectangular paper and roll it onto the toilet paper roll.  If the cardboard roll is longer than the 4 inch paper cut the extra cardboard off the bottom.

5- The students should still have a blank sheet construction paper, fold it in half hamburger style.

6- Trace your hand onto the paper that has been folded in half make sure the palm of your hand overlaps the crease.  

7- Cut out the tracing of your hand and keep the paper folded in half so you end up with 2 hand shapes connected. This will be the wings.

8- Write a note to your Mom on the back, and decorate the front of the wings.

9- Glue the wings onto the back of the toilet paper roll.

Mrs. Cooks class: Addy, Teela, Sadie, Taelon, and Leah