Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 29, 2009
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 10 Grade 2-5 Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Filler Lesson: Shading and Visual Textures Cost per student: $.01 Materials: Half sheet copies of line drawings on reused copy paper (I copied pages from a generic monster coloring book I got for 10 cents at the Goodwill [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 29, 2009
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 10 Grade K-5 Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Filler Lesson: Primary Colors Cost per student: $.01 Materials: Crayons (reds, yellows and blues – you can pick “almost” hues, too like periwinkle, marigold, magenta, turquoise etc.), paper (I used 5”x7”index cards), black markers (or black crayons). [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 26, 2009
November was busy, and I wrapped up the lessons about 7 elements of art. All classes had at least 7 lessons focusing on the basic elements of art, and some had extra lessons delving into certain concepts more deeply. My in-school volunteering hours topped 79 this month, for a total of 241 hours so far [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 24, 2009
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 17, 2009
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 10, 2009
At different points during the year certain classes will miss their art lesson due to school holidays, assemblies, field trips, etc. Every so often I take a week to catch all the classes up so I don’t have some classes trailing behind, using materials I could have finished using and put away weeks ago. During [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 10, 2009
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 9 Grade K-5 1st Trimester Whitman ES 2009-2010 written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP Warm and Cool colors Cost per student: $.03 to $.15 depending on variations in your materials Materials: warm colored crayons or oil pastels (an art college in town donated a box of warm colored pastels, that [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 8, 2009
So far, so good. I’d like to thank Georgie’s clay and Art Media on 82nd in Portland for donating clay for projects later in the year, and the Mill End Store for donating several yards of fabric so we can work on a quilt. My current total number of hours spent volunteering (just time spent [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 3, 2009
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 8 Grade 4/5 1st Trimester Whitman ES 2009-2010 written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP Elements of Art: Form Cost per student: $.05 Materials: Lots of plastic doodads (marker caps, old game pieces, bottle caps, straws etc) and at least one plastic container for each kid. Something like a yogurt cup, [...]
Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: November 3, 2009
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Week 8 Grade 2/3 1st Trimester Whitman ES 2009-2010 written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP Cost per student: $ .30 Materials: Salt dough clay in various colors (you could use whatever air drying clay you have; it is hard to beat the cost of salt dough clay!), wire (at least 24” [...]
