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Miscellaneous End of Year Wrap Up
Posted on: July 7, 2010
I became super overwhelmed with the art teaching and gave up on the lesson plan posting, which I will resume in September. I eventually volunteered over 1500 hours at Whitman Elementary last year, and SCRAP donated $140 worth of art materials, which was enough to keep 370 students happy and learning the whole year long. Here are some photos of projects we worked on during the third trimester:
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- Clay dishes drying before they get kiln fired. It was the first time most of the fourth and fifth graders had ever worked with clay and they did a beautiful job.
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- Third graders were studying plants, so we made scientifically accurate flowers with stamens, anthers, sepals etc. We dyed coffee filters with liquid watercolor for the petals, and wired them to leftover faux floral stems I found in the bottom of the bin at SCRAP.
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- We dyed the coffee filters before cutting them up into flower petals; the kids had a good time watching the colors seep and blend.
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- Third graders created a plant shaped rubber stamp out of recycled shoe rubber Nike creates for sport courts. We used acrylics and brayers to ink the stamps to make colorful prints.
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- A student inks her rubber stamp.
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- Ribbons, mat board leftovers, colored pencils and old fashioned scientific illustrations from a fish book I found at a garage sale made a great study of shape and color for second graders.
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- Students were challenged to reproduce one of the fish illustrations in colored pencil on their tiny mat board. We glued a scrap ribbon loop on the back for a hanger.
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- Second graders were studying animal habitats, and we used oil pastel on cut up file folders and added scrap paper collage details to show an animal they were studying in its natural habitat.
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- I found animal head stickers with silly googly eyes in a box of free things I found on Craigslist. I thought the students would like the challenge of filling in the rest of the art piece dictated by the animal head.
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- Fourth and fifth graders used discarded Halloween colored aersol hairspray to create “spraypaint” effects as part of their solar system collages. It was all the fun of applying spray paint without the fumes and stains and mess.
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- Kindergarteners assemble their invented animal collages using the paintbrush and watered-down glue system that worked so beautifully all year long.
Living Things at Woodstock Library
Posted on: May 11, 2010
Third grade students are learning about plants in art and science. They made plant rubber stamps and printed with them – look for leaves, veggies, fruits, flowers, trees, etc. Some of their tree paintings are also on display; they mixed up custom colors for the background and painted portfolio boxes literally removed from a recycle dumpster. We sketched trees in the school’s courtyard and talked about the parts of trees and how trees really look (not like a cotton ball on a stick), and kids used black, white, blue, yellow and red paint, mixed colors and painted a landscape featuring a tree.
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
Puzzle/Tracks at Woodstock Library
Posted on: April 13, 2010
Stick Journals are for everyone!
Posted on: April 5, 2010
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- Some finished journals, waiting to be filled with words and doodles.
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- It works best if one student holds the hole punched layers while another helps out by threading the rubber band loops through the holes, catching the loops on the stick.
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- A student pushes down with 2 hands to punch through all the layers of paper.
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- A student folds their journal page with the printed side on the inside.
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- Dead pens (with ink cartridges removed) and dull clean plastic knives are used for “sticks”.
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- A variety of “junk” paper awaiting new life as journal pages.
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- A finished student-made stick and rubber band journal.
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 studying letter writing, and writing in a journal can be like writing a letter to yourself.
They are super simple to make and really use up a lot of actual stuff destined for the trash/recycle bin. You need:
Rubber bands
something to serve as the stick (soda straw, chopstick, dead pen with the ink cartridge removed, handle of a toothbrush, paintbrush that’s yucky since someone forgot to wash it out, a stick from the yard, etc.)
waste paper cut to 8.5″x5.5″ for the front and back covers (old calendar pages, folders, cardboard inserts, posters from events long passed, and so on)
hole punches (I like the 2 hole punches used for legal files – SCRAP gets in tons of that particular size when filing systems go digital)
filler paper (paper from the recycle bin that’s been used on 1 side)
Fold the filler paper in half horizontally so it’s the size of covers. Stack 5 sheets, printed sides on the inside. Layer with a front and back cover. Hole punch on the side opposite the folds (this is the hardest part to get people to follow directions – if you do it this way, it hides the printed side of the paper forever), poke looped ends of the rubber band through the holes, and use the stick to hold the rubber band loops. Done.
I sometimes collate and stack pre-printed paper headed for the recycle bin and run it back through the copier so it has lines on it instead of being blank, or graph paper squares – or you might just want it blank for an art journal.
Sarah Morgan at SCRAP showed me how to do this and it’s such a cool, universally interesting project! Add more pages or take some out as needed. You can modify this project in many ways to change it up – kids think of all kinds of cool things to personalize it.
Third Grade: Life Sized Animals
Posted 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 various pieces), brushes, cups, palettes etc depending on how you are coloring your art, measuring tapes, books with realistic depictions of animals, an animal encyclopedia (or you can do some web searching for dimensions once kids choose their animal), scissors, markers or pencils, paper for making a sign to go with the finished product.
Students will make a large collaborative art piece –measuring, drawing and coloring a life sized animal.
Elements of art: space, shape, line
Vocabulary: collaborate, life size
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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
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