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Choose an activity below that interests you. Please contact me with questions, comments and to share your creations at khawlbce@buusd.org.
Cave Art!
In 1940, a few teenagers in France discovered a cave with ancient artwork on the walls while following their dog into an opening of a cavern. This is now known as the Lascaux Cave. Scientists believe that this artwork dates back 17,000 years ago! On the walls of these caves are hundreds of drawings of animals. It is thought that these caves were used for a very long time and a special place for hunting and religious purposes. Try to make your own cave rock! We don’t have to use charcoal and mud like they did thousands of years ago. All you need is a rock, a pencil and a crayon!
My video on how to make cave art at home: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14VfgXEhqefUxQr5upKsofgSTM-ZG8N2k/view?usp=sharing
Find one or more rocks from outside. It helps if they are flat and smooth, and not too small.
Clean them off as best you can. If you wash them with water, let them dry completely.
Draw an animal on your rock or a symbol that we learned in class. Pencils, black and brown crayons can be used on light colored rocks. White and brown crayons can be used on dark colored rocks.
Create a positivity poster: Draw or paint a poster or card to share with a loved one. Think of an inspiring message that would help to lift someone's spirts. Your message should stand out and be easy to read. Create a background that helps to make your art interesting. Remember what you learned about different types of line, pattern and symmetry to brainstorm ideas for your background. Once your done, hang it up where you can see it or give it to a friend or loved one to make their day!
Silly Drawing Prompts:
Get silly and creative with this activity! Use one or more of the prompts below to get you going! You don’t need to just stick with drawing. Feel free to use clay, collage, paint, etc.! Use one of my prompts to get you going, or create your own silly combination! I drew “a taco walking” in the picture here. Have fun with it. I hope this activity makes you or someone else smile.
- Draw a shark waterskiing.
- Draw a crab at a birthday party.
- Draw a dog on a treadmill.
- Draw a horse playing horseshoes.
- Draw a squirrel roasting a marshmallow.
- Draw a mouse riding a motorcycle.
- Draw a flamingo doing ballet.
- Draw a cat chasing a dog.
- Draw a lobster dancing.
- Draw a cat playing a sport.
- Draw a chicken skydiving.
- Draw a Pop Tart lifting weights.
- Draw a loaf of bread at a disco.
- Draw a rainstorm of sprinkles.
- Draw french fries on a rollercoaster.
- Draw a walking taco.
- Draw a banana slipping on banana peels.
- Draw a cookie with googly eyes instead of chocolate chips.
- Draw a pineapple skiing or snowboarding.
- Draw a donut riding a skateboard.
- Draw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on vacation.
- Draw a hot dog flying.
- Draw a lemon making orange juice.
- Draw an ice cream cone eating a Popsicle.
- Draw a garden of lollipops.
- Draw your art teacher on an island.
- Draw a person with fruit for hair.
- Draw a pirate in a hammock.
- Draw yourself with a super power.
- Draw something other than a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
- Draw a troll riding a unicorn.
- Draw what your imaginary friend would look like if we could see them.
- Draw a dragon breathing rainbows.
- Draw an alien driving a car.
- Draw a squirt gun squirting paint.
- Draw the Statue of Liberty eating pizza.
- Draw a treasure chest in an underground cave.
- Draw a snowman sailing.
- Draw a detective scene where a donut lost its donut hole.
- Reinvent your favorite team’s logo.
- Draw the moon howling at a wolf.
- Draw a walrus sitting on a beach chair.
- The Statue of Liberty eating a pizza.
Cut Paper Collage! Using scrap paper from around your house (construction paper, magazines, newspaper, recycling - whatever you can find), have fun cutting (or tearing) shapes. If you want to keep your work, glue your design to a piece of paper. Henri Matisse, a famous French artist, is known for his bold, colorful, cut paper collages. He created this artwork when he was older and could no longer stand at his easel to paint. https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/kids-view/meet-matisse Watch this quick video of a modern day artist that does art with cut paper just like you! https://youtu.be/WgRZlWl-Oh0
Line Study: What is a line? https://theartofed.wistia.com/medias/w6y2la7mw4 After watching the video, look around your home and see if you can find different types of line: horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zigzag and curvy. Practice drawing each of the lines and create some of your own. After practicing, make a drawing using your favorite lines to create an interesting design and then color it with crayon, marker or paint depending on what you have available at home. See the painted student example below for reference. Have fun creating!
Photography:
Using a play camera, phone, tablet or whatever you have available to you, try some photography! Observe the world around you. Find as many of these prompts as you can. Take a few photographs from many different angles for each prompt. Have fun being creative!
- Patterns in Nature
- Smiles
- Teamwork
- Fast
- Messy
- Inside/Out
- Home
- Soft
- Up and Down
- Love
- Together
- Mixed Up
- Laughter
- Happiness
- Family
- Pets
Read Aloud! Join me while I read The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P0AdlDL_95h5JQIOHgFZbJeAnV1EhnUN/view?usp=sharing
Play-dough Sculpture:
Have fun cooking and creating with this activity. Make your own play-dough with common ingredients and then create! This is my favorite homemade play-dough recipe. It lasts a long time in a sealed container or plastic bag. You need to cook it on the stove-top, so be sure to grab an adult to help.
1C Flour 1 C Water¼ C Salt 2t Food Coloring2 T Cream of Tartar 1T Oil
Mix flour, salt and cream of tartar in a medium pot. Add water, food coloring (desired color) and oil. Cook and stir over medium heat 3-5 min. Mixture will look like a globby mess and you’ll be sure it's not turning out, but it will! When it forms a ball in the center of the pot, turn out and knead on a lightly floured surface. Let it cool before creating! Store in an air-tight container or plastic bag when it’s not in use.
Mix flour, salt and cream of tartar in a medium pot. Add water, food coloring (desired color) and oil. Cook and stir over medium heat 3-5 min. Mixture will look like a globby mess and you’ll be sure it's not turning out, but it will! When it forms a ball in the center of the pot, turn out and knead on a lightly floured surface. Let it cool before creating! Store in an air-tight container or plastic bag when it’s not in use.
What is color? Watch this video on color first: https://theartofed.wistia.com/medias/3b3lhwplod For this activity, you can create an interesting design focusing on color. You can draw with crayons on paper or you can use markers, a white coffee filter and a spray bottle for water if you want to make your colors blend. First decide on what color scheme you would like to do: Primary colors (red, yellow, blue), warm colors (red, orange, yellow), cool colors (blue, green, purple) etc. (I did warm colors in my example below). Once you have decided on the colors to use, draw a design on the coffee filter using your markers. Put a piece of newspaper or a paper towel under your work so the marker doesn't run through onto your table. This may be a great time to practice symmetry! Since you are working on a circle, repeat your design so it is the same all the way around (radial symmetry). Color in all of the white areas of the coffee filter. Once you are finished, lightly mist your coffee filter with water and watch your colors blend together! Let it dry and hang near a window to appreciate all of the beautiful color!
Step 1: Draw your design on the coffee filter.
Step 2: Lightly mist the coffee filter with water.
Step 3: Watch the colors blend together! Hang in a window when dry.
Make Your Own Paints at Home!
Using some everyday items from around the kitchen, watch my video to see how to create your own paint!
Watch my video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-pt-bW5j06PNe49aYdLMkWQsdLlxR6Bq/view?usp=sharing
Make Your Own Paintbrushes!
Using natural or found objects from around your house, watch my video to see how to create your own paintbrushes!
Watch my video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hQ3r1sI3CMHZia56H4RpCOjG5zIbHW4r/view?usp=sharing
What is Pop Art? https://theartofed.wistia.com/medias/tzs6mn4fxh
Artist Andy Warhol’s artwork makes us ask questions like: What is art? Who can be an artist? Pop artists felt that art should reflect modern life, so they made art inspired by the world around them – from movies, advertising and pop music to comic books and even product packaging! Take something that you see everyday and turn it into art! Use the materials that you have available to you, and create a picture of something that you see everyday in a fun, bold and colorful way. Can you guess what cereal inspired my art pictured to the right?
Texture! What is texture? First, watch this video: https://theartofed.wistia.com/medias/vuri4lq68z
Experiment with texture around your house! First, collect some leaves outside that have just fallen (avoid using dried leaves - they can crumble). Place the leaves on a hard surface, like a book or table with the vein side up (bumpy, textured side). Put a thin piece of paper on top of the leaf (computer paper works great). Use your free hand to hold the paper still. Rub back and forth across the paper with the side of a crayon (with the wrapper off) applying pressure while rubbing so the leaf appears on your paper. Continue with other leaf shapes and colors. Overlap your leaf rubbings to create an interesting design. Next, go for a “texture hunt” around your house. Place a new piece of paper on top of found objects and see what other textures you can find!
Watch my video for how to do a rubbing: drive.google.com/file/d/1_bzNVeZu9JRQs350LR7asfYJQadUmkZR/view?usp=sharing
Pattern Landscapes: First, watch this video on pattern: theartofed.wistia.com/medias/9l5h87seua
Brainstorm and think of at least five different patterns. Look around your house for ideas. You can look at clothing, buildings and books for ideas (just to name a few) or use your imagination. Draw these 5 patterns down on paper. Next, draw a picture of your house in an imaginary landscape. If you have a black marker, trace over the lines of the house and landscape with the black marker. Now, add each of the five patterns in five different colors to five of the shapes using markers or crayons. Use the same patterns to fill in the rest of the picture!
Watch this video on shapes: https://theartofed.wistia.com/medias/ei9c86rkjt
Shape Study:
Practice cutting five basic shapes: triangle, square, rectangle, oval, and circle. Then, collage the shapes together to create a ‘shapescape,’ a landscape using shapes. You can use construction paper, newspaper, magazines whatever you have available to you. There are 3 main parts to a landscape. The background (far in the distance), middle ground (near the middle of where your eye can see) and foreground (what is up close). Include these in your landscape!
Watch this video on shape: https://theartofed.wistia.com/medias/ei9c86rkjt
Imagination Shape Robots: Use shape, pattern and color to create an imaginative drawing featuring robots! Begin drawing the basic shapes of your robots in pencil. Build the robot bodies by repeating a variety of shapes. Add details within the robot bodies. Consider the robots’ functions and purposes. What do they do? Add details to the robots with different shapes and patterns. Create an environment that tells a story by adding objects and details around the robots in the background. If you have one, use a black permanent marker to trace over the pencil lines. Add color if you have crayons or markers at home. When you’re done, write a short story about the drawing describing what your robot can do and what is happening in your picture! Remember to use a variety of shapes and patterns in your artwork!
Watch my how to video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZxZvJrHwGEdxDT2vSagcaP5fZDptRtVE/view?usp=sharing
Soap Sculpture: Using a bar of soap, a pencil and a paperclip, you can create a soap sculpture! View my video first to see how to begin. Be sure to cover your work area with wax paper or a paper towel. It will get messy. Choose a simple shape to try and remember you are carving away the negative space. This is all of the soap around the outside of your object. Even if your original idea doesn’t work out, you will be left with an interesting shape and you will learn along the way! Save your finished sculpture to display, give as a gift or use as soap!
Land Art!
Reconnect with nature in whatever way you can. You can venture as far as the backyard, or head to a nearby park or wooded area. Take a walk outside and collect “specimens”, like leaves, pine cones, flowers, or even small rocks. Rearrange them on site to create a new work of art or take them home to create. Look at these artists to inspire you:
Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who creates sculptures and land art in natural and urban settings. http://www.artnet.com/artists/andy-goldsworthy/
Step 5: Slide your notched pieces together and build up and out to create a 3D design.
Cardboard Sculpture:
Try to build something with cardboard that is 3 dimensional (something that has width, height and depth). What you create is up to you. It can be a realistic looking object or something that is abstract. If you have paints at home, feel free to paint it or let the natural cardboard show! No glue? You don’t need glue to make a cardboard sculpture! Simply cut notches into each piece and slide them together like this example!
Step 1: Find scrap cardboard.
Step 2: Draw shapes for your design.
Step 3: Cut out your shapes.
Step 4: Cut notches (slits) into each piece.
Found Object Art:
Collect a variety of objects from around your house and create something new -use your imagination! Most of us have collections of random things, from parts of toys to yarn, so the materials for this project should be easy to come by. This activity encourages you to look at ordinary objects in extraordinary ways. I personally like to use food to entertain the family and make someone laugh. When you're done, share with a friend or family member or take a photo of your creation. Have fun!
Crazy Creatures: Create an animal by combining the parts of three or more animals. Include the unique characteristics which identify each animal, such as a giraffe's neck or a camel's hump. Emphasize the patterns or designs of each animal you choose (for example: leopards and tigers are immediately recognized by their spots or stripes).
You could make your animal a drawing, painting, collage or sculpture (my younger students may want to try Play-Doh)!
To make the parts of your animal recognizable, you may want to keep your colors realistic (how they are found in nature).
Have fun naming your animal when you're done! Visit the national zoo for interesting animal ideas for your artwork! https://nationalzoo.si.edu/
Design an original cartoon character:
Brainstorm some of your favorite cartoons (include TV, comic book, movies, comic strips). Look at the main characters and think about their personality and characteristics. Are they a hero, klutzy, shy, brave or funny? Think of possible character types for your original cartoon character. What type of character will it be? It could be an animal, a baby, a teenager, a teacher, an athlete, or an alien, etc.! What is your character's name? Describe the personality and what type of events or circumstances the character might be involved in. Will the character have props, a side-kick or a special environment that they live in? Have fun designing your character. Bonus: Keep going and draw a small comic strip using your character or write a story about their adventures!
Snow Day Art Challenge (Choose one):
Snow Day Art Challenge (Choose one):
DRAW:
Draw a snow globe with a creative, imaginary landscape inside.
DESIGN: Design the ultimate sled. (rocket boosters, automatic cocoa machine, etc.) Be creative!
MAKE: Cut paper snowflakes. See my video on how to make them:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNFS2ai_2gaq3_casD6432V6gMZGe_bN/view?usp=sharingIMAGINE: Imagine a world where something else (besides snow)
fell from the sky today (candy, cats, popcorn...you decide!). Write or tell a story about what happens!
BUILD: Go outside and build a snow sculpture! Make a fort, create a snowman or just have fun creating in the snow. Artist Andy Goldsworthy builds with icicles!
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