First Grade
Distance Learning
Please email pictures of completed work to asloan@sachem.edu
New Assignments will be added every week and will appear in order as you scroll down the page. I will leave past week's assignments up so you can always look back and catch up if you have fallen behind.
First Week Of Distance Learning:
Designing A Crown For Your Favorite Royal Character
week 4/6-4/10
There is a certain type of artist with knowledge of jewelry making, precious metals and gemstones that creates the crowns for actual kings and queens. Often other members of royal families are given tiaras and crowns to wear for formal occasions. A crown should match the owner and have some symbolism that is meaningful to the person meant to wear it. Fictional characters from some of our favorite stories also wear crowns and so some artist must design what it will look like in the illustrations or costumes for the film.
Elsa's crown from Frozen designed by Disney artists and redesigned by fans for a costume. It looks like it is made from her Ice power! Perfect for her.
This crown was designed to be worn by the Aragorn in the Lord of The Rings and features a tree design. The tree at the palace of his his kingdom was dying until he came back to take the throne. It was a symbol of a connection between the humans and elves in that story.
A crown designed for the Queen of Hearts from the Alice In Wonderland story. Each point has it's own heart representing the queen.
This crown of icicles is the design artists came up with for the White Witch of Narnia. As long as she is Queen of Narnia it will be Winter there all the time. As her power fades the icicles in her crown melt.
This crown was designed by a Disney artist for Mal, the queen of dragons, from descendants.
With all of those different sea shells we know for sure this crown is designed for the King or Queen of the Ocean!
There are many more characters from fairy tales and stories that you know and love. Choose someone from your favorite stories and design a crown for them. Make sure to start in pencil and include details that would be meaningful to that character. After the pencil drawing is complete use whatever supplies you have available to color it in. make sure the colors make sense! Have fun!
If you have more time and want to make another, then design a crown for yourself or someone in your family. What would you have on your crown? Mine would have all kinds of art supplies for example. And diamonds...lots of priceless diamonds...
Second week of distance learning:
Knights in shining armor
week 4/13-4/17
During medieval times people would protect themselves by wearing armor. While training with weapons, jousting, or in battle knights would have on a suit made of metal. The best suits were made to fit by a special kind of metal worker or blacksmith called an armorer. These highly skilled artists worked heating metals and hammering them into shapes using tools they often had to make themselves. Most armorers learned the skill from their parents and handed their knowledge down to their children who continued the tradition eventually teaching their own kids. Full suits of armor were extremely valuable and especially if it were made to fit you perfectly.
Take a look at some of these suits of armor!
A full suit is made up of many pieces. Each one had to be made and then put together like a puzzle to make the completed suit.
Armorers didn't just make armor for people. They also had to make armor to fit horses!
Your challenge this week is to make a drawing of a knight in their shining suit of armor. To do this we are going to have to borrow some aluminum foil from the kitchen. Don't worry, you won't use the whole roll and there should be plenty of foil left over for cooking and baking when you are all done.
Draw the shapes for your suit looking carefully at pictures of armor. Make sure you draw enough shapes. For example if you are making a rectangle for part of your knight's legs make sure you make two the same so you have one for each leg. Below is a guide you can use if you get stuck. You can add more to it if you want like circles for the joints or a shield or whatever other shapes you want.
After you are done carefully drawing the different shapes you need in order to make a whole suit of armor cut them out with a scissor. the more complicated your shape the harder cutting it out will be so keep them simple. Some foil is thicker than others and the thinner it is the easier it tears when you cut it. Sometimes tht can be fixed when you glue it down. Next step is to glue your shapes together to build your knight.
You can add shields and swords if you like.
Once your knight is glued down you are done for this week!
We will continue on with our project next week! Great work!
Next time you can add in background details. Where is your knight standing? Are they at a castle or in the forest on a quest? Is there anyone else around like a king, queen, princess, or fearsome beast? It can be whatever you imagine. Start coming up with your ideas and next week we will add it all in and color it!
distance learning week 4
Jester Hat
4/27-5/1
Instructions for making a jester hat:
Start off by making a long strip of paper like a headband. You want it to be long enough to go all the way around your head with a little left over so it overlaps. It should be like the red paper in this picture.You can make it as wide as you want. The wider you make it the sturdier the hat will be. Your paper doesn't need to be colored. You can use cardboard or a paper grocery bag. Whatever paper you have as long as it is kind of sturdy. if it isn't sturdy then folding it or doubling it up might help strengthen it.
The next thing you need to do is make some long triangles. After you make the first one use it as a tracer for the rest. Then, using whatever glue you have available or a stapler if you have no glue, glue the triangles to the headband like you see in the picture. Make sure the bottom edge of the triangle matches up with the bottom edge of the headband. That will give the paper more strength and better support for the weight of the triangles.
Attach the rest of the triangles onto the headband leaving no space between triangles. You can overlap them a bit under the top edge of the headband. when the hat is done no one will see this side of the headband so if the glue gets a bit messy it doesn't matter too much. If you are using staples make sure the points of the staples go through the side showing in the picture and come out the opposite side that is not seen in the picture. The side that is showing will be the inside of the hat.
The next step is to cut two circles for each triangle point. You can make them whatever size you think looks good. Use the first one you cut as the tracer for the other circles so you know they are the same size. Then glue the circles onto the ends of the triangle points. You want to have two circles on each point with the point being sandwiched in between the circles. If the two circles were the cookie part of an oreo cookie the triangle point would be the cream filling. If you are not sure look at these pictures.
The next step is to size the headband to your head and glue it into a circle so it fits you. Make sure you bend the paper so the triangles are on the inside and the full headband is visible on the outside. Notice how you can see the entire red paper on the outside of the hat in the picture.
One last step for this week. Take a pencil or a pen and rub it onto the outside each triangle by putting the pen on one side and your fingers on the other. The same way you would curl a ribbon. If that isn't working you can just use your hands to bend the paper and give it a slight curve. On this step less is better. the paper will probably bend all on its own after a bit from humidity in the air. This just gets it bending the direction you want it too rather than the direction it decides to.
Okay! That is enough work for this week. Next week we will decorate the hat and put the finishing touches on it. Here are some jokes you can start practicing so when your jester hat is ready you can entertain your friends and family!
Q: What eats more knights than a dragon?
A: Two dragons.
Q: Why was Sir Galahad tired?
A: He worked the knight shift…
Q: Why do dragons sleep during the day?
A: So they can fight knights!
Q: What did King Arthur do when he was scared of the dark?
A: Turned on a Knight light.
Q: How come the skeleton didn't compete in the joust?
A: He didn't have the guts.
More next week!