Mrs. Cambria's Art Room

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!

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