Flower power with Lei's

Our last lesson was on watercolors which is a techniques of painting (dry brush, wet on wet, and crayon resist) and introducing the Hawaiian culture by creating a lei with the use of a flower a and the watercolors... Here is a photo of my final product after using my flower, I used crayon resist and wet on wet for my watercolors flowers. This was a really fun and exciting lesson to make and I can't wait to give my lei to someone special to me.

An extension activity for this lesson could be in dramatic play or literacy were the students could come up with a song and dance that is centered around the Hawaiian culture and then present each to the class while dressing up as well.

Clay pots

This week for art we were introduced to clay and got to create a pot out of the product. Learning different ways to put the pot together was very interesting. I chose the snake way and spun a long rope that just coiled around the base of the put. After etching something that resembled us into the pot we allowed it to dry. Once dry the pot had to be painted with one primary and one secondary color. This is what my pot looked like from the front..

I chose a coffee mug to put onto my pot because I love coffee and don't really know what I would do in the morning without it.

Here is a couple other photos showing a different view of the pot.

The top one is the bottom of the pot and the bottom is the inside of the pot where I put my initials.

An extension activity for this lesson could be in social studies where you would look into the different tribes of the world and the ways they use clay or pots in their lifestyle. You could have groups of students present on a different tribe with different ways of technology such as power point, poster board, wikis ex.

Trains are a going...

The second project for this week was a train station stamp project where we were able to create our own stamp. With this stamp we created a train and then decorated the background with something that represented  SD culture. I chose the train station and put coal into the trains to show something that goes through SD in real life.

Here is a photo of the train which you can see the stamp that was created by me with spirals in it.

Welcome to Aberdeen's Train Station created by me.

An extension from this activity could be used in literature were the students could read books that talk about SD and the train system. They could find three facts about SD that they could write with this project to show some of the information about their State.

B-Z Ville (3D project)

This week in art we were taught how to create a 3D project with the use of 3 different types of folds a person can use. The folds include twists, bends, tunnels, and stairs. We got to listen to a book called "Oh the Place You Will Go" by Dr. Seuss and then were told to create our own village without the illustration. Here is a photo of my whole project, I use the warm colors to make my project.

 

 This is B-Z Ville were it is always sunny and everyone who lives there is happy. They Buzz around like a bunch of bees...

Here is an example of the twist and tunnel folds used to create a 3D effect.

An extension activity for this lesson could be in social studies where the students be given a place or city that has a significant object or building within the city and then they will create a 3D project of one of these significant structures from the city of state.

Marble Painting- The Mayan Temple

This week in art we found a new interesting way of painting. Marble Paining is a form of using paint without the use of brushes. We watched a movie that showed a culture in which they placed paint on water then placing the paper onto the water. This create a spiral finish on the paper. We create our own form of Marble painting by using shaving cream and placing the paint on that and creating a swirl ourselves with a toothpick. This lesson was fun and exciting because you got to use your hands and active during the activity. In the activity we were also given a place of importance in the world. I was given the Mayan Temple..

Here is my finish project..

 We were told to put where the place is such as shown above "Tikal, Guatemala.

An extension activity for this lesson would definitely be in social studies where there the students would research the place they were given and look at some of the information on how it was built, who made it, how long it has been standing and things like that.

Macrame Display

After creating our macrame bracelets and key chains, we were told to create a display for all the wonderful projects. The background for our display was inspired by the history of macrame when the sailors were out at sea and made knots like the ones used for macrame to pass their time. 

This is a photo of our display description and a side view of how me hung up the bracelets and put the names on each students project.

The Display was a fun way to show the rest of the school how hard the students worked on their project and hopefully stop to look at them.

Made by yours truly Britlyn Sturlaugson and Karli Gilbertson.

Macrame Madness

Our project this week was to teach the students how to create Macrame Bracelets or key chains. We showed the students how to create a spiral not with the hemp rope. Every one did a great job with there own projects.  Here is my bracelet i created but i used a different technique, I used the flat technique to show the students other ways to make Macrame.

 An extension activity for this lesson could be in a social studies class, where the students can look deeper into the history of macrame and figure out some of the different uses people throughout history used macrame for.

Razzle Dazzle Puzzle Pieces

This week we worked on coloring with crayons and learning the different shapes and styles of line. This is a photo of part of my project, I was given organic shapes instead of geometric shapes.  Organic shapes are shapes that do not use straight lines or are same on all sides. I was also told to use cool colors which include blue, green and purple. 

The students were given the choice of which animal to choose to be put into their project. I chose the frog for my animal. I thought it would be really fun to draw and my favorite color is green and since frogs are green that was a pick but you were also able to make a fox, fish, or a duck. Here is a photo of my frog...

I thought that this was a neat project in that the pieces we were given were in shapes to create a puzzle as a whole class. The final product is going to be really interesting to see all the different types of shapes the students chose. In my coloring i chose a variety of cool colors for each color. You were also suppose to use texture in your project somewhere, I have texture on my frog and in the purple background. 

An extension activity that you could use for this activity could be in a science classroom where you are actually feeling the different textures by having them placed in a bag and then the students guess what type of animal that texture would be.