Friendship bracelets
Paper Beads (How to make paper beads, and Paper Eden)
Zentangles and ATC
Self Painting Face Painting and Paper Hats: Inspired by the Minneapolis Children's Museum See previous post…
Finally, Shrinky Dinks
We are also still looking for volunteers for this event. If you are interested you can email me at Nicholechahn@yahoo.com or you can contact the Elk River Arts Alliance by going to the website of calling, 763-441-4725.
Here is an example of the Art Note I attached on the back of the Paint by Number Project. You can get a better view of it on my google share site. This Art Note helps young artist fully explain the concept of the project. It shows the new shapes the students learned. Mediums, tools, and process is also addressed on this note. It also gives kids a bit of a challenge at identifying the even and odd numbers. For an art teacher teaching 650 students as I do, you will see the name includes the last (very helpful when grading) and TC or Teacher Code, so I can keep them apart from one another. I also print the worksheets off in different colors for each of my 1st grade sections so I can identify the class by color as well.
1st grade students worked on their math skills as they learned how to create their own paint by number. I was excited to introduce this younger generation to something I loved to do as a kid, PAINT BY NUMBER!
The visual art objective for this lesson was to identify and create six new geometric shapes. Last year in Kindergarten student learned what a circle, triangle, oval, square and rectangle was. These shapes were reviewed first. In first grade they studied a pentagon, octagon, rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram and hexagon.
The math part of this lesson was to demonstrate the knowledge of even and odd numbers. Other skills that were used in this project was how to create a grid and use a ruler to do so.
The kids drew a grid on their paper and then then a large shape. There were instructed that on the inside of the shape they were to put a even number. On the outside of the shape, they had to place odd numbers in each grid space.
The next day the kids were asked to use the correct colors for each number. They loved the challenge.
As you can see the room was cleared of chairs while the kids were moving around finding their colors. It was a fun day!
We have had so many trades this year with other schools. I will take the time to share all of them with you in the near future but I couldn't wait to tell you about his one! Recently we traded with a High School from Loudoun County VA. Mrs. Jenkins's class has some WONDERFUL art that she shared with my kids. I LOVED it and my little kids were blown out of the water with the 'really awesome, super cool, amazing, totally "sick", best in the world' art work. Thanks to all the 'Big KIds from VA!
