Kindergarten Art Projects
The students create a lovely project based on "collage". The students learn how to glue well. The apples they assemble are created with an overlapping method of using a glue stick and pieces of paper. It's a wonderful "first days of art class" experience for them to have!
The students begin to create Shape Robots. The students construct a robot from shapes. The project allows the students to create a robot out of any shapes they choose. We review our shapes in class and we look at different kinds of shapes.
The Kindergarten students took time to discover the primary colors with Piet Mondrian!
The students are assessed as to whether they can identify the primary colors. I give each student six colors and they set out the three they know as being the primary colors. We then sing songs in class and we discuss what the three primary colors are. The song really helps the students remember. At the end of the project they take the cards again and set out which three they remember as being the primary.
The students are assessed as to whether they can identify the primary colors. I give each student six colors and they set out the three they know as being the primary colors. We then sing songs in class and we discuss what the three primary colors are. The song really helps the students remember. At the end of the project they take the cards again and set out which three they remember as being the primary.
The kindergarten students then discovered the children's book Mouse Paint. The students created the secondary colors using the primary colors. We then create pumpkins out of the orange, violet and green colors.
The kindergarteners then focus their attention on a longer project of portraits!!! The students take time to learn how to draw a face and we explore how to make it a bit more three dimensional. The students make the portraits very personal by actually trying to replicate skin tones and their hair. The students take time to practice the eyes, the nose, and the mouth. Click on a photo to see the whole work of art!
Check out the video we used for the lesson!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ouiumHlnmA
The students focus on understanding what a portrait is and why artist's have made them over time. They look at portraits created by a variety of artists. We discuss how each portrait is different and creative. At the end of the unit I check for understanding by asking each student about what a portrait is and why we make portraits.
Kindergarten students reviewed Shel Silverstein's Hungry Mungry and pop art burgers. The students cut and tore paper and glued it on a small paper plate to create the art.
Kindergarten students use modeling clay to sculpt with in their initial experiences. The modeling clay is safe, inexpensive, and does not dry out. It can be used over and over.
The students have contemplated what may be seen outside their windows on cold wintery days. The students decided it would be fun to make snowmen to show what may be seen. The students had great fun with using "cool" colors and creating a wintery scene! We went TEXTURE CRAZY! The students tore paper for the ground, added fluffy white cotton, sculpted snowmen from a combination of glue and shaving cream, and they finally add winter evergreens to the picture! This was so much FUN!
The kindergarten kids make patterns. The students know the ABABAB pattern and have been using the idea with color. This year mittens and sweaters?
The students discuss and use texture to a great extent throughout the year at Hopewell. We have some simple fun with this lesson and have the kids make little texture creatures. They make up stories about their creatures and given them names. We think about what they smell like, what they eat, their names....etc.
Students learned how to make landscapes with barns! The students use simple shapes to create a barn. They experiment in using color and value to make the barn look more realistic.
The students participate in a gallery walk where we display all of the barns and the students discuss their favorite aspect of their artwork and something they enjoy about another students work.
The students participate in a gallery walk where we display all of the barns and the students discuss their favorite aspect of their artwork and something they enjoy about another students work.
The students are introduced to Keith Haring. The students create simple artworks inspired by Haring . It's hard to believe the drawings below were made by kindergarten students. We started with a gesture drawing lesson and they were so successful and showed a natural aptitude for the work.
The students then review the monoprint style of art making and create a "reflection" in their spring artworks! The students have created monoprint works of art in their classrooms this year with their classroom teacher.
The students watched a demonstration of an artist creating a landscape reflection in a pond or lake scene. The students then use oil pastels to "paint" their scene with a reflection carefully blending the colors.
Students end the school year by creating their own paper sculptures. The students create paper sculptures to show different techniques in paper sculpting. We read a children's story about the ocean and traveling across the seas. The students can add fish and whales to the work.