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Fifth grade totem garden, created with a grant through the Arts and Science Council and donations from Lowe's of Indian Land! Follow me on Facebook and share your work!
Hello BES Families! I am Rebecca Zelinski, the K-5 Visual Arts teacher. This is my
5th year as a Ballantyne Bear, and 25th year teaching elementary art! I love what I do!
What is in store for your young artists this year? Lots of hands-on experiences with drawing tools, painting, sculpture, clay, and fiber arts! We will learn about art from different cultures and all kinds of artists, from both long ago and today!
Why is art important? It helps students tune fine motor skills, see connections between art and other areas such as math and science, develop creative problem-solving skills, and appreciate the art all around them! Ultimately, my goal is to foster a love of all things art our students will carry with them beyond their elementary year!
Follow our art class on besartwithmrszelinski (Instagram) or Ballantyne Elementary Art (Facebook)
Try this at home!
Try this at home!
Art can be made from anything, and nature has lots we can use to create! This is a great website to check out artists who use nature to create: https://inhabitat.com/andy-goldsworthy-creates-ephemeral-land-art-with-what-he-finds-at-hand/
Andy Goldworth is an environmental artist who uses leaves, stones, and sticks to make his art. It will not last, but he likes it that way!
Project: Get outside and gather fallen sticks, rocks, leaves, etc. Create a design on the ground using these natural items. If you can, take a picture of it and share with me! (rebeccaw.zelinski@cms.k12.nc.us)
This time of year, everything is in bloom and bursting out in all the colors of the rainbow! Take some paper and pencil, and go on a nature walk around your house or apartment. Look for flowers, new leaves, birds’ nests (but don’t disturb them). If you find something that interests you, make a sketch of it. Start by drawing the large shapes and move to small details. If you have color pencils, markers, or crayons at your house, add some color!
Share with me! (rebeccaw.zelinski@cms.k12.nc.us)
Create a comic strip. Design your own superhero and tell a story that has him or her save the day! Or illustrate a funny incident that has happened since you have been out of school. You can keep it simple, and make the characters simple stick figures, or get more detailed.
Draw caricatures of your family, a famous person, or someone from your imagination. Ask someone to pose or look at a photo. Draw their head big and put a funny little body on them! Look at notable characteristics such a wide smile,large nose, face shape and exaggerate it in your drawing. Here is a link to a fun video on how to turn your own face into a cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxcfvU4Vfok
Practice drawing face shapes, hair, or other part of a face. Here is a great video for older kids to practice drawing realistic eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5jTL5NOvo
Heads Up!
Heads Up!
Print out head shapes or create your own, and add details showing someone who looks scared, angry, happy, sad, surprised, laughing, and so on.
48 Fun Art projects Ballantyne Elementary
1. Create a large poster or banner (use your name and artistic letters)
2. Draw images of your pets and or toys
3. Save the boxes from package deliveries and use them to make towers or forts
4. Watch pandas, beluga whales, and other animals on live cams at San Diego Zoo, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Houston Zoo then create observational drawings of the animals
5. Take a virtual field trip visit an art gallery or museum
6. Discovery Education offers a number of virtual field trips for you to explore!
7. Start a home garden (indoor or outdoor) then draw the plants and flowers
8. Create fish from construction paper and attach to a pole …Go fishing
9. Try a household scavenger hunt and then create art using your finds!
10. Play hide-and-seek with art objects (one person hides them, others have to find them)
11. Use FaceTime, Skype, Google Hangouts or another platform to video chat with a friend or family member and share your art pieces
12. Learn how to draw at Art for Kids Hub
13. Play dress-up as a famous artist
14. Program your own interactive stories, games, and animations with Scratch
15. Hang out with the Cat in the Hat at Seussville
16. Remember Highlights Kids? They’ve got activities, jokes, recipes and more
17. National Geographic Kids has educational games, quizzes and more
18. Write a letter or make thank you cards for a community hero
19. Learn how to improve your chances against coronavirus and create a cartoon/brochure
20. Science Mom is offering live, weekday science and crafts
21. Turn lemons into lemonade; learn how to create positive outcomes for kids during this situation
22. Create a visual diary or booklet that summarizes content from research or lessons
23. Create a poster
24. Create a diorama (model representing a scene with figures)
25. Make a paper-mâché object
26. Write a creative play or a script based on your experiences
27. Create a puppet show
28. Design a TV game show and play with your family
29. Write an original song
30. Complete a drawing or a painting each day
31. Create a dance… then create a how to step by step
32. Make an original comic strip
33. Create a collage
34. Create a sculpture
35. Direct a cell-phone-produced movie
36. Construct a mobile
37. Produce a PowerPoint
38. Make a sewing activity
39. Create a visual slideshow
40. Create a scrapbook
41. Make puppets and perform a show
42. Design fun photo frames
43. Paint a large mural on canvas
44. Create an ART studio space in your home
45. Paint on t shirts ,shoes, clothing, pillows ,or hats
46. Redesign your bedroom
47. Design the next popular toy or game
48. WASH YOUR HANDS!
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