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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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- Seeing as we live in Portland, we let the rain wash our art away.
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- A artist clearly proud of his work of art!
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- Students work outside on the grass to reduce mess.
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- Corn packing peanuts stick together when wet to offer interesting sculpture possibilities!
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. If working indoors, something for the kids to build on (I used lids from Rubbermaid tubs), some Styrofoam peanuts to show the kids (I just packed a Ziploc bag with them so they didn’t make a mess)
Students will create sculptures using a plant-derived material
Elements of art: form
Vocabulary: biodegradable
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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- Students loved using droppers to give their seeds a drink of water.
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- Paper towel strips act as “soil” to retain water.
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- Presoaked beans!
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- The poster with the assembly information.
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- The finished product, with the sun shining through.
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 used; it is built into the design of the machine. The librarian kindly saved the waste strips for me until I had enough), stapler, hole punch, yarn or ribbon scraps, newspaper, water, pipettes or droppers, paper towels, seeds you’ve soaked overnight.
Prep: besides soaking the seeds to give them a jumpstart on life, I made envelopes out of the laminate by folding an 8”x10” piece, in half, then turning in the edges, then stapling each side so it will hold water. See photos for a better idea.
Students will create an arty transparent envelope, used to sprout a seed.
Elements of art: Line, shape, color, form
Vocabulary: sprout, transparent
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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
Kindergarten: Still Life Drawings
Posted on: March 15, 2010
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- Oil pastels and bright, thick paper get the lesson off to a good start.
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- An example of a basic scene featuring plant derived materials for the artists to study.
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- An artist draws what she sees!
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- An excellent replication of a still life scene by a kindergarterner!
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- Blending the oil pastels is fun and results in a “professional” appearance.
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 like pine cones, vegetables, dried flowers etc, some vases and fabric, examples of still life oils, pencils
Students will draw what they see to create a traditional still life portrait
Elements of art: line, shape, color
Vocabulary: still life, subject
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- Use various colored crayons for clothing and details, then fill the rest of the page with a watercolor wash using a wide brush.
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- Fill in the skin areas first; discuss how to match skin colors and pick realistic tones.
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- Students use pencils to begin drawing their family members.
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
Vocabulary: mixed media, skin tone
4/5: Potpourri Sachets
Posted on: March 9, 2010
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- Lavender for filling sachets… I also had the more typical “flower petal” potpourri.
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- Fleece scraps for plump sachets.
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- One of many cards full of prethreaded, preknotted needles and thread I spread out around the room.
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- An intrepid stitcher!
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- Some students with fresh smelling hand sewn sachets.
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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 sewing needles), stuffing (I used fleece scraps), a few pairs of scissors, all the patience you can muster
Students will use sewing techniques to create a 3-D fabric form
Elements of art: form
Vocabulary: sachet, potpourri, whipstitch, eye of the needle, thread
4/5: Block Print Stamps
Posted on: March 9, 2010
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- A student presses down on her inked stamp.
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- A kid uses a brayer to ink up their stamp.
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- Some examples of our block printed fabric!
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- A finished stamp with a nature motif
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- A student cuts up rubber to create the shapes for her stamp.
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- Peel the protective coating off of the acrylic before gluing the rubber pieces down!
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 using 4”x 3” acrylic scraps from SCRAP), adhesive (depends on your other 2 materials, I am using double sided sticky glue dots), scissors, paper, pencil, trays, brayers, something to keep the workspace clean like plastic tablecloths, acrylic paint, paper or fabric to print onto (SCRAP has an overabundance of upholstery samples, I am going to offer those)
Students will create a block print stamp using Colonial American motifs, then use it to create a series of prints.
Elements of art: shape, space, form
Vocabulary: print, motif, series
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