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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: wrmaqmf

Click here for info on how to login and use Google classroom

Have a grown up 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 choices this week - you only need to do 1)

CHOICE #1

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Find an object that looks like a letter

Spell out a word with objects

Letters Around Us

CHOICE #2

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Use materials around your home to build a fort that you can go inside of

Turn a cardboard box into a fort

Directions:

Become an architect (an artist who plans and designs buildings) and build your own fort!

Use what you have around you in your home. Think about using furniture and blankets, sleeping bags, or towels. What will you put inside? What about pillows or lights? If you have cardboard boxes, you can turn that into a fort. Can you cut out or draw on a door or windows?

What will you use your fort for? How about reading a book or drawing a picture? What else can you do?

Send me a picture of you inside your fort!

CHOICE #3

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Complete one of the challenges listed by yourself or with siblings

The "Weekly Challenge" will be a choice for the rest of the school year.

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 show me a picture of what you draw :)

100 Silly Drawing Prompts

week of 5/18 - 5/22

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

CHOICE #1

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Create your own chalk paint
Use the paint to create a painting of your choice

Homemade Chalk Paint

CHOICE #2

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Create a collage with pictures from 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?

My collage of a birthday party for a puppy!

CHOICE #3

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Create a card game of Memory

Memory Game

week of 5/11 - 5/15

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

CHOICE #1

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Create a hand puppet with paper

Hand Puppet

CHOICE #2

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Draw or paint to music

Watch the video. It puts a painting by the artist Wassily Kandinsky to music. He liked to listen to music when he painted. When he heard sounds, he would see different colors, lines, and shapes. He would paint what he heard in the music.

Directions

Choose your favorite song and listen to it. While you listen, draw or paint to the sounds you hear. If the song is fast - draw fast. If the song is slow - draw slow. If you hear loud sounds, what lines, shapes, or colors would you use to show it? What about soft sounds? Fill the space of your paper.

CHOICE #3

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Create a monoprint with markers

Marker Monoprints

week of 5/4 - 5/8

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

CHOICE #1

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Create a print
Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design

Printmaking

cHOICE #2

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Sort found objects into different color families

Watch the video about Warm and Cool colors, then look at the slides for what you will make!

Color Families

week of 4/27 - 5/1

(Choose one or try both)

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Create a spring flower garden

Draw a spring flower garden

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Make your own salt dough or use your own clay
Create a "clay" sculpture

Watch the video, then create your own sculpture!

Salt Dough

week of 4/20 - 4/24

(Choose one or try both)

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Create texture rubbings

Watch the video, then create your own texture rubbings

Texture rubbings

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Draw the shape of different objects by tracing their shadows

Shadow drawing

week of 4/13 - 4/17

(Choose one or try both)

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Use found objects to create a portrait of a face

Watch the video, then make your own artwork!

Plate portraits

Cats Can and Cats Will:

Use different shapes and lines to create a monster
Build a monster with recycled objects

Listen to the story, then create your own monster!

Silly circle monsters

Week of 4/6 - 4/10

(Choose one or try both)

Primary Colors song

Lego version

Watch the videos, then try making your own color wheel

color wheel

Check out the live stream videos from the Georgia Aquarium

Choose a sea creature that you see and try to draw it! Add a background to show its habitat. If you can color it in, what colors do you observe? Below are some how to draw videos to try, as well.

Georgia Aquarium livestream

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Cat N' Around Catskill

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