Welcome to the blog dedicated to our art classroom at Ann Parish Elementary. Each week I will be posting the weekly lessons and activities for easy viewing and access.
April 27 - May 1
Welcome to the grand opening of the virtual art show!
All of this week's activities have to do with viewing the art galleries within the art show.
How do I get to the art gallery?? Here's the link! https://sites.google.com/llschools.net/apeartclass/home
Activities include:
1. All grades - Scavenger Hunt
2. PK-2nd - Art Discussion
3. 2nd-4th - Write a Fan Letter
4. 3rd-6th - Compare virtual vs. in person art gallery
5. 4th-6th - Write an artist statement for a piece of your art
Fan Letter Template Guide
Comparing Virtual vs. In Person Art Show Template Guide
This year Earth Day is on Wednesday April 22. All of these lessons and activities have the theme of nature in some way. Choose ONE OR MORE art activities for the week. You DO NOT have to do ALL of them. Complete the activity on your own or join us in during our art room zoom sessions this week.
TURN IN any completed artwork on ARTSONIAproject title “WK5 - At Home - Nature Art”
ACTIVITY 1:PK-3rd Explore different types of bugs and create a sculpture using homemade clay, store bought air dry clay, or even play doh. Paint/color it if you have the supplies.
ACTIVITY 2:PK-6th Choose an appropriate level drawing tutorial. Art for Kids Hub How to Draw Bug/Insects
ACTIVITY 1:PK-6Go on a flower hunt! Capture close up photos of every kind of flower you can find. 3rd-6th Create a digital collage of all your flower images using keynote or any collage app.
ACTIVITY 2:PK-6th Use any drawing or painting supplies to create artwork of a flower.
OR 3rd-6th Use the sketches school app to create digital art of your flower.
History of the Mandala ACTIVITY 1:PK-6 Get outside! Use nature (leaves, twigs, flowers, rocks etc.) to create a nature mandala. ACTIVITY 2:3rd-6th Create a digital Mandala. You can search for mandala making apps or go to this website: https://mandalacreator.com/
Welcome to paper folding week! We are going to explore the art of paper folding, also known as origami. Have you ever folded a paper airplane? Yes? Then you've done origami! Have you never made a paper airplane? WHAT?! Here, quick go make one, follow this link for some airplane options. I wonder which one flies the fastest?
Anyway, now that you've made an airplane, let's make some other stuff.
Goal:Accomplish one or more paper folding and origami activities.
Please turn in a photo at www.artsonia.com/class using our secret school code and project title "At Home - Paper Folding". Or hey! Turning in a video making one of these would be awesome too.
Easiest: Abstract Paper Sculpture, Paper Fan
Medium: Emoji Face Changer, Paper Crane
Challenge: Transforming Star, Sonobe Module Cube
You might think the easy paper folding is actually challenging and maybe the challenging origami is actually pretty easy. It's all up to you and what you think you are able to accomplish. You can always search for your own origami too, like maybe a little hopping frog? Those are also fun. It's your life, choose how you want to be creative! Scroll down for options and instructions.
Abstract Paper Sculpture
Materials: Paper strips. Tape or Glue. Base (Bottom) Can be cardboard, paper, etc. Coloring supplies if you have it.
Instructions: Use 10 or more paper strips to create a line sculpture. Can you include a zig zag, arch, loop, spiral, and more? Fold it. Stick it. Stack it. Make it interesting.
Paper Fan
Materials: Regular sheet of paper. Coloring supplies. Tape.
Instructions: Design and fold your piece of paper into a decorative fan.
1000 Paper Cranes
Materials: Square paper.
Can we create 1000 paper cranes by the end of the school year? Search for your own tutorials, or follow this link for an easy to follow video. Videos will be easier than written instructions. Make as many cranes as you possibly can.
Sadako and the One Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Sadako is an energetic eleven year old girl who lives in Hiroshima, Japan. She becomes ill with leukemia from the effects of the atom bomb nine years earlier. There is a Japanese legend that anyone who folds 1000 paper cranes will receive any one wish. Sadako starts her journey to fold 1000 cranes in hopes that she can become healthy again.
Questions to think about:
1. If you made 1000 paper cranes, what would you wish for?
2. Where you hang your 1000 paper cranes?
3. Do the math: If one crane takes 5 minutes to make, how many hours would it take to make 1000 cranes?
Emoji Face Changer
I did not make my own videos for this just-for-fun activity. Here are a couple options to follow along and try it out.
Some people call this a ninja star, but I like to think of it as a color wheel star. This is an extra fun activity and it can honestly take the place of a fidget spinner any day.
Sonobe Modular Cube
Materials: 6 paper squares
This is another puzzle type of origami. Forget rubick's cubes, make your own sonobe cube!
April 6-10 This week's theme is COLOR. There are three lessons to choose from with two activities in each lesson. You only need to CHOOSE ONE ACTIVITY from ONE LESSON. Of course you can always do more if you want. Turn in a photo of your artwork on Artsonia under the project "At Home - Color"
1. RAINBOW COLOR ORDER
Activity 1: Scavenger hunt. Put objects in a rainbow colored order or in a color wheel order.
(Many students have already completed this)
Activity 2: Create artwork based on the rainbow color order. Choose your subject and supplies. Somewhere in your art there needs to be the ROYGBIV color order.
2. MIXING COLORS
Activity 1: Create your own color mixing activity starting with the primary colors to make secondarycolors and maybe even tertiary colors. You can use food coloring, paint, playdoh, or anything else you have to mix colors.
Activity 2: Use paint or food dye in water to paint your own color wheel using only primary colors to mix.
3. MONOCHROMATIC (1 color)
Activity 1: Put together a monochromatic outfit.
Activity 2: Make art using monochromatic colors. Choose your subject and your supplies.
Color can give artwork emotion and feelings. When someone looks at your art or your outfit, what do you want them to feel? For instance Blue could seem sad, Red can seem angry, and Yellow can be happy.
