Your Destination: (objectives) Focus on creating a pattern and repetition through natural materials found outside. Travel kit: (materials) Different colored or textured leaves, flowers, sticks, exct. On the path Collected four or more different natural materials. These should be different colors, shapes, sizes, textures. Two of these materials should be …
Your Destination: (objectives) Create Kandinsky’s colorstudy with heart shapes instead of circles for mother’s day. Through thislesson the students will be able to observe how colors interact together andinterpret what the colors may represent to them. Travel kit: (materials) Water based paint (gauche,watercolor), paint brush, crayons, paper (watercolor paper works …
Image from book, Expanding the Creative Mind through Mixed Media Book-4, by Greta Heeb Your Destination: (objectives) The students will be ableto practice impressionist style techniques by recreating Monet’s “TheWater-Lily Pond”. Travel kit: (materials) Acrylic paint, paint brush,something to paint on! (canvas, wood, thick paper, title, panel). On the path …
Take the plot of a story you could recite by heart—it can be a fairy tale, a scary story, nursery rhyme, a movie, a chapter book— and use a comic strip template to transform it into a graphic novel. This project is one of the virtual literacy through art classes …
Image from ASI Lesson Book-4, (Expanding the Creative Mind through Mixed Media Book-4), by Greta Heeb Your destination (objectives): Recreate Jerry Wilkerson’s Bananas painting by having the kids practice pointillism. Tavel kit: (materials) Q-tips, paint (white, light blue, brown, green, yellow), blue paper/surface with blue background, pencil. On the path …
Cicadas are bugs that can sing using tymbals, which are parts of their bodies like drums. When they vibrate the tymbals, they make a loud buzzing sound that can be heard in the Eastern United States all throughout the summer. Some cicadas emerge every summer, while some hibernate under ground …
Pinwheels are toys and decorations that are thousands of years old! They have history throughout Europe and China, and they are used as traditional decorations during Chinese New Year, where they symbolize “to turn one’s luck around.” Use these two pinwheel handouts to create your own pinwheel! Color and decorate …
Join ASI Teacher, Sophie, and learn how to make your own bebop song! Inspired by the classic children’s book Charlie Parker Played BeBop by Chris Raschka, this activity asks children to explore their homes and outdoor environments for inspiration in the creation of their own bebop song. You can download …
