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Second grade: Printed Note Cards
Posted on: April 27, 2010
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- A student using a brayer and ink on a lid tray to print (they are printing with a stamp, not a plate)
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- Printed note cards drying, waiting to be written in and delivered. You can see the inked plates drying interspersed with the cards.
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 Speedball), newspapers, clean wet cloths.
Students will design an image and make multiple prints using traditional block printing techniques.
Elements of art: Line, texture, value
Vocabulary: printing, brayer
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- I displayed some exceptional work with some of the real postcards we looked at to inspire us!
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- The backer page I glued to their art to make it look like a postcard. They can practice writing an address and text with wet or dry erase markers.
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- A student is drawing a cityscape reflected in the water below, just like she saw on some of real postcard examples.
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- You need chalk or oil pastels to layer color over the watercolor wash.
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- Now you’re ready to pull off the tape and leave it to dry overnight.
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- A student makes sure their whole page is covered in even color.
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- Mix colors in the lid if you want to create new blends for your wash.
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- A completed, laminated “giant postcard”
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, chalk pastels, backer paper to look like non-picture side of postcard, lots of postcards for examples, laminating machine or spray fix
Students will use a variety of techniques to create a landscape reminiscent of a postcard.
Elements of art: space, value, color
Vocabulary: Postcard, landscape, wash, blend
Second Grade: Mailbox Art Collages
Posted on: March 2, 2010
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Second grade: Letter Writing
Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10
Wacky Mailbox Collage
Cost per student: $.04
Materials: Glue sticks, scissors, cardstock (or something to mount the collage papers to), lots of scrap papers, photos of unusual mailboxes (I have the book Mailbox, U.S.A. : stories of mailbox owners and makers : a celebration of mailbox art in America by Rachel Epstein.)
Students will create a 2-D version of a mailbox that expresses themselves.
Elements of art: shape, color, space
Vocabulary: mailbox, folk art, collage
Second Grade: Envelopes
Posted on: February 3, 2010
Finished folded envelopes!
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- Fold the envelope, and apply glue dots or glue stick to the side flaps to hold the bottom half of the envelope closed.
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- Use the envelope die to cut out the envelope shape, or trace a stencil and cut it out for the same effect. The kids really liked turning the crank of the machine!
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- With a paper towel, smudge the chalk onto the envelope paper.
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- Color with chalk all along the edge of the used copy paper. Blend colors if you want!
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- Finished folded envelopes!
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Second Grade: Letter Writing
Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10
Custom Chalk Envelopes
Cost per student: $.03
Materials: Chalk pastels, clean 8.5”x11” paper, used copy paper, paper towels (1/2 sheet per kid), envelope template, glue sticks or glue dots, scissors.
Optional: I am using an envelope die-cut template for an Accucut die-cut machine, so that will take the place of the scissors and template. It is on loan from SCRAP.
Students will create their own fancy envelopes using chalk pastels.
Elements of art: color, shape, form
Vocabulary: envelope, perforations, blending, abstract
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- Get ready to mail it away!
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- Add lots of details and bright color.
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- Think of what someone might like to receive in the mail.
Creative Reuse Lesson Plan Second Grade: Letter Writing
Written by Keri Piehl for SCRAP /Whitman ES 2009-10
Art through the Mail!
Cost per student: depends on final postage, but I am guessing $.03 per kid.
Materials: white paper (when the office lady cleaned supply shelves she found a stack of 4”x8.5” strips, which will work nicely), things to draw with (colored pencils, crayons, gel pens, markers, twist up crayons, etc.), a mailing envelope, postage, a world map or globe
Students will create art to be sent through the mail!
Elements of art: various
Vocabulary: pen pals, postage, postal regulations
New Seasons Gallery
Posted on: January 16, 2010
