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CAT'N AROUND CATSKILL 2020

"Space Cat" is officially on display across from the community center on Main Street!! I hope everyone can safely check it out - it will be up for the whole summer. What a great opportunity to have our artwork on display in our community!!

Ryleigh Ormerod

Chelsea Misevis

Evan Lozensky

Brooklyn Kalb

Virtual Art Gallery: Part 3

You can also find all of these projects on my Google Classroom. You will be able to attach photos of your artwork, ask questions, leave comments, and get feedback.

Google classroom code: p2hyevm


Have an adult at home send me a picture of what you make.

I would love to see your masterpiece!

One way is to e-mail me at: jallison@catskillcsd.org

Another way to send me your art:

week of 6/1 - 6/5

Catskill Elementary Field Day 2020

week of 5/26 - 5/31

(There are 3 projects this week - you only need to do 1)

Choice #1

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create a word with objects that look like letters or make the letters out of objects

Letters Around Us

Choice #2

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create an origami cat or dog

or

  • Create an origami of your choice

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures

Origami Cat and Dog

Choice #3

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Choose one of the weekly challenges to create by yourself or with a sibling

The "Weekly Challenge" will be a choice for the rest of the school year. 5th graders, you may remember this from last year as the "Brown Bag Challenge".

Open up the google doc attached with the 7 different challenges. Choose one to complete. If you want to do this each week, there are enough to choose a different one each time. If you have siblings, you can collaborate and work together on the same challenge!

Use whatever materials you have available to you at home. You can draw it, paint it, print it, collage it, or build it. Maybe you have extra cardboard, tape, glue, construction paper, newspapers, yarn, legos, clay.....try out what you have

READ FIRST: Weekly Challenge Choices

If you have completed an assignment and want to do more, here are 100 silly drawing prompts that you can try!

Don't forget to e-mail me (or fill out the form) a picture of what you draw :)

100 Silly Drawing Prompts

week of 5/18 - 5/22

(There are 3 projects this week - you only need to do 1)

Choice #1

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Make your own chalk paint and create a painting of your choice with it

Homemade Chalk Paint

Choice #2

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create a collage with pictures cut out of magazines or newspapers

DIRECTIONS:

Find some old magazines or newspapers. Cut out pictures that are interesting to you. Arrange them on a piece of paper and glue them down.

Tell a story with your pictures. You can overlap them, draw on them, or add details around them with a pencil, crayon, or markers. Fill the space of your paper with your pictures. Are the pictures talking-what will they say? What is in the background?

You can even write a story or poem about your collage!


My collage of a birthday party for a puppy!

Choice #3

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create your own card game of Memory

Memory Game

week of 5/11 - 5/15

(There are 3 projects this week - you only need to do 1)

Choice #1

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create a flip book

Flip Books

Choice #2

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create a weaving

Cup Weaving

Choice #3

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create a monoprint with markers

Marker Monoprints

week of 5/3 - 5/7

(You only need to do 1 project, but can try both if you want)

Choice #1

Cats Can and

Cats Will:

  • Create an imaginary map

To make the slides easier to see, click on the box in the bottom, right hand corner to view it fullscreen.

Imaginary Map

Choice #2

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Design rooms in a building

or

  • Design a room from a birds eye view perspective

Watch the video above to learn how to design a room floor plan or open the document to learn how to design the inside of a whole building.

Interior Designer

week of 4/27 - 5/1

(Choose one or try both)

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create 3-D block letters with shading

3-D Block Letters

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Make salt dough or use your own clay

  • Create a "clay" sculpture

Salt Dough

Week of 4/20 - 4/24

(Choose one or try them all!)

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create a new character for a movie, TV show, or book

Movie character

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create a sculpture

Sculpture Challenge

Cats Can and Will:

  • Create a drawing that interacts with a

3-D object

Watch the video, then create your own drawing interacting with a 3-D object!

Choose one or more objects and place them on a piece of paper, then make your drawing around it.

I can't wait to see what you come up with!!

week of 4/13 - 4/17

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create a design for a sneaker

and/or

  • Design uniforms for three different sport teams of your choice

Shoe Designer

Cats Can and Cats Will:

  • Create an abstract drawing with hidden pictures

ABSTRACT- artwork based on an identifiable subject, but does not look realistic

Hidden Pictures

Week of 4/6 - 4/10

(Choose one or try both)

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Our Cat

"Space Cat"

for Cat N' Around Catskill