Discover how to build your art foundation skills and express your creativity by learning different art techniques.
Description: Students create bird’s nests out of recycled and nontraditional materials. A great way to talk about courage. Baby birds need courage to fly for the first. Project Ideas:courage, nontraditional materials, naturalistic Author: Mary Hager Grade level or Target Age Range: Preschool Vocabulary: spring, insects, birds, nests Materials: For bird’s nest: …
Project Title: Origami Frogs Description: Teach students about frogs and their habitats. Author: Mary Hager Grade level or Target Age Range: Preschool Vocabulary: frogs, origami. Materials: Large construction paper (white), regular construction paper (green, pink, yellow), crayons, scissors, paper flies, and frog sound videos. Anticipatory set: Fun facts about frogs! We started by discussing the life …
Stencil Painting Directions (Materials: stencils, rags, brushes, tape, acrylic paint) Choose a theme for stencil mural project. (theme for Fishtown – “Aquatic Life”) Choose specific location and decide how stencils will fit space. (We have small stencils designed specifically for painting over benches and bigger ones for walls) Brainstorm ideas, pick stencils and …
Auguste Rodin, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Level: Middle School Duration: Six 45-minute class periods Historical Overview: Artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and France Goals and Objectives: To introduce sculpting techniques. Vocabulary: positive and negative space, carving additive and subtractive methods, proportion, scale Materials: clay, wire, wood, nails, armature, carving tools, wire …
Käthe Kollwitz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Utagawa Hiroshige, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Level: Middle School Duration: Six 45-minute class periods Historical Overview: Kathe Kollowitz and German Expressionism, and the history of Japanese wood block printing Goals and Objectives: To introduce printmaking techniques. Vocabulary: positive and negative space, relief …
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Level: Middle School Duration: Two 45-minute class periods Historical Overview: Goals and Objectives: To introduce figurative drawing styles by various artists and oils pastel techniques. Vocabulary: Oil pastels washes Materials: Oil pastels, paper towel, water soluble oil pastels, payons (water soluble crayons), water …
Card and Paper making Books from ASI Library (Projects can be Community Service, MLK or Valentine Holiday Related) Cards and Envelopes Vocabulary: Symmetry and asymmetry Materials: Glue, scissors, and pencil, markers, colored pencils or crayons can also be very useful, stencils or tracers for card making and envelope making Directions: …
(Projects can follow on consecutive weeks) Card House Project: Basic house project of folded paper that students can make into a card Vocabulary: Architecture, landscape, interior design Materials: Glue, scissors, and pencil, markers, colored pencils or crayons Directions: Demonstrate project and not cutting on fold line Students fold paper. Use …
