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Second grade: Printed Note Cards

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 27, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan    Second grade: Letter Writing Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Printed note cards Cost per student: $.20 (brayers can be used forever, though) Materials: Brayers, foam trays, ballpoint pens, pencils, scratch paper, paper or cardstock to print onto, plastic lids or trays, acrylic paint or printing ink (like [...]

Kindergarten: Corn Packing Peanut Sculptures

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 5, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         Kindergarten: Plants Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Corn Packing Peanut Sculptures Cost per student: Potentially nothing, if you can find someone getting rid of a bag. I picked up my 5 foot tall bag next to a dumpster. Materials: Corn packing peanuts, small bowls for water, water. [...]

Stick Journals are for everyone!

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 5, 2010

This project is appealing to all ages and demographics! The 4th and 5th graders made stick journals since much of what modern people know about Colonial History is from what people of that era wrote down, either formally, in diaries or journals, or in letters to others. The 2nd graders made journals since we were [...]

Third Grade: Life Sized Animals

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: April 5, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         Third Grade: Measurement Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Life Sized Animals Cost per student: $.10 Materials: Butcher paper, blocks or something to hold the paper down while kids work, color of some sort (we used water color and tempera paints, chalk pastels, and paper scrap collage on [...]

Kindergarten: “Stained Glass” Seed Sprout Envelopes

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: March 29, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         Kindergarten: Plants Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Seed Envelopes Cost per student: $.15, but that includes the cost of permanent markers which would last 2-3 years Materials: Permanent markers, laminate scraps (the laminating machine most schools have create a 6”x18” strip of waste every time they are [...]

Second Grade: Giant Picture Postcards

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: March 28, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         Second grade: Letter Writing Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Giant Postcards Cost per student: $.15, slightly more if you factor in the laminating Materials: water color paints, 1 inch masking tape, white or light cardstock or heavy paper, water dishes, water, paint brushes, newspaper, clean wet rags, [...]

Kindergarten: Still Life Drawings

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: March 15, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         Kindergarten: Plants Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Still Life Drawings Cost per student: $.15 (includes the cost of oil pastels which will last all year) Materials: oil pastels, sturdy paper (I used a mix of printed-on-one-side cardstock and cut up colored file folders), lots of natural items [...]

First Grade: Mixed Media Family Portraits

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: March 12, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         First Grade: Families Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Watercolor Family Portrait Cost per student: $.05 Materials: Newsprint or other 12”x18” paper, crayons, water colors, newspaper, brushes, pencils, various skin tone crayons/markers/colored pencils Students will create a mixed media family portrait Elements of art: line, shape, color, space [...]

4/5: Potpourri Sachets

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: March 9, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan               Fourth/Fifth grade: Colonial America Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Potpourri Sachets Cost per student: $.15 (this includes the sewing needles and other non-consumables) Materials: Lacing cards and lacing, fabric (I cut up a silk upholstery sample book), potpourri, embroidery thread, tiny beads (optional), yarn darners (large pointy [...]

4/5: Block Print Stamps

Posted by: TeachingArtontheCheap on: March 9, 2010

Creative Reuse Lesson Plan         Fourth/fifth grade: Colonial America Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10 Block Printing Stamps Cost per student: $.15 Materials: Rubber (foam works fine, I am using pieces of Nike promo sport court made from ground up recycled sneakers, it is 5”x5”x .25”), base to adhere it to (I am [...]


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