Project Title: Henna Hands Description: Students will learn about Indian culture through the art of henna. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary Level, ages 8+ Historical Art Examples or References: Henna examples from the internet Vocabulary: Design, pattern, repeat, henna, permanent, temporary, ink, mandala, culture, radial pattern Materials: Colored construction paper 9×12, pencils, erasers, …
Project Title: Up, Up, and Away in a Hot Air Balloon Description: Group discussion on travel and transportation. We will land our focus on hot air balloons. Students will create a hot air balloon collage and insert themselves into the picture. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary Level, ages 5+ Historical …
Project Title: Postcard Paintings Description: Students will brainstorm a place they’d like to visit or enjoyed visiting. They will sketch the place or different things that represent the place onto watercolor paper and paint it in. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary Level, ages 7+ Historical Art Examples or References: Postcards from around …
On our last day with the elementary students at Shissler Recreation Center, we decided to do something a little different… we made animals out of marshmallows and pretzels! The kids also took did the “Marshmallow Challenge”. They worked in groups of two or three; using only spaghetti, tape, string, and …
Project Title: Intro to Printmaking Description: Students will learn how to create a mono-print. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary Level, ages 7+ Historical Art Examples or References: Andy Warhol Pop Art, examples of prints and stamps Vocabulary: Printmaking, inks, brayer, stamp, texture, pressure, print, reverse image Materials: colored construction paper …
ASI teachers are using glazes with students that are much easier to use than in the olden days! New glazes actually can be identified as the color they will become after the kiln firing. We used to ask the students to ignore the color and read the label before painting …
This week’s theme at Nelson Recreation Center was about Earth! When I was in first grade, my teacher had us make bouquets of flowers for Mother’s Day. We traced our hand on a piece of construction paper, cut it out, rolled it up, curled the fingers, and stuck a pipe cleaner in …
This was from my first day as an assistant art teacher and it was at Nelson Recreation Center! We started off with from comprehension tests for the children and then proceeded to make 3-D birds and water colors. Although some of the children felt that they “did not know how …
