K-2nd Grade Art

Rainbow Chameleon

-Students will read A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni, and create a chameleon using the colors of the rainbow in proper order.

Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

-Students will read There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, and create a painted based on the story. Students will discuss the job of an illustrator and they will use the wax resist painting method to create a picture inspired by the illustrations in the book.

Chilean Arpilleras

-Students will discuss and view examples of the arpillera art form of Chile. Arpilleras are quilted pictures made with layers of fabric. Students will create a painting collage and practice the whip stitch to weave yarn around the edges of their collage to create a quilted edge.

Pinch Pot Tea Cups

-Students will create a tea cup sculpture using the pinch pot method for the cup and create a coil for the handle. They will glaze them to give them color.

Chihuly Flower Sculpture

-Students will hear about the life and artwork of Dale Chihuly and create a work inspired by his glass blown sculptures using transparency sheets and acrylic paint.

Weaving Magic Carpets

-Students will hear about how the history of the legend of the magic carpet and view examples of rugs from the Middle East. They will use the weaving process to create their own magic carpet out of construction paper and use marker or colored pencil to decorate it.

Mouse Paint Mice

-Students will practice mixing pairs of primary colors to create the secondary colors. We will read the story Mouse Paint to inspire a collage picture using the primary colors.

Monet Waterlily Pond

-Students will hear about the life and artwork of Claude Monet. They will create an impressionistic painting of Monet’s waterlily pond using tempera, watercolor, and acrylic paint.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

-Students will hear about the life and artwork of Japanese artist, Hokusai. Students will create their own version of his Great Wave off Kanagawa Painting to demonstrate movement in artwork.

Primary Color Winter Houses

-Students will read The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton. They will discuss the changes the house goes through when city begins to take over the country it was settled in. They will use the story to inspire a winter scene of three houses using the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue.

Snowmen at Night

-Students will read Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner. Students will discuss the way the illustrator shows movement and how they add different colors in the snow to make the snowmen look realistic. Students will draw their own snowman at night and practice blending warm and cool colors of chalk pastel with white to create value and shadow.

Grandma Moses Snow Globe

-Students will read about the life and artwork of folk artist, Grandma Moses. Students will view examples of her artwork and observe the way objects look close up and far away based on placement and size. They will create a snow globe collage of a winter scene that includes 3 houses, 3 trees, and 3 tree people.

Very Hungry Rainbow Caterpillars

-Students will read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. They will create a caterpillar in the colors of the color spectrum and sing a song to help them remember the order of the rainbow colors.

The Monster in My Closet

-Students read the book The Monster in My Closet by Eric Klug. They will begin by writing a sentence to describe their monster using three adjectives. Then they will design their monster based on their description.

Fall Leaves

-This week students read, Let it Fall, and discussed the colors that leaves change in the Fall season. They heard about what causes the leaves to change color, and did a leaf rubbing activity with laminated leaves. This project will lead into a Kandinsky Fall Tree project which will begin next week.

Textured Pumpkins

-This week students read, Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin Pie, and discussed the life cycle of a pumpkin. This will lead into a painting collage project where student will draw, paint, add texture, cut out, and glue a collage of Fall leaves and pumpkins.

Laurel Burch Fantastic Felines

-This week students were introduced to the life and artwork of Laurel Burch. Students defined Laurel Burch as a folk artist, an artist who never took an art class. They described the way her animal paintings show lots of pattern and how they have human- like eyes. They will be creating a painting collage of a cat in the style of Laurel Burch with lots of pattern and color.