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Tasty Textures
"Tasty textures" refer to the various tactile qualities and sensations experienced when eating different types of foods. These textures can include characteristics such as crunchy, creamy, chewy, smooth, gritty, and more. Exploring tasty textures in arts and crafts activities can be a fun way to engage 7-year-old students and enhance their sensory awareness. Here are some creative activities related to tasty textures:
Texture Collage of Foods:
Provide students with magazines, food packaging, and catalogs.
Here's a step-by-step explanation:
Collect Materials:
Start by gathering the necessary materials. You'll need a collection of magazines, food packaging, and catalogs. These materials can be sourced from your own magazines, donations from others, or by contacting local businesses or grocery stores for unused or discarded packaging.
Sort and Prepare:
Sort through the magazines, food packaging, and catalogs to ensure they are appropriate for use in the classroom. Remove any materials that may not be suitable for your students or the specific project you have in mind.
Organize and Store:
Once you have the materials you need, organize them in a way that makes them easily accessible to your students. You might want to arrange them in bins, baskets, or on shelves, depending on the available space in your classroom.
Introduce the Materials:
Before starting the art and craft project, introduce the materials to your students. Explain the purpose of using magazines, food packaging, and catalogs in the project and how these materials can be used to create texture-based art.
Safety Precautions:
Emphasize safety guidelines to your students. Make sure they understand how to handle scissors and other cutting tools safely. Additionally, remind them to be respectful of the materials and not to waste or damage them unnecessarily.
Selecting and Cutting:
During the project, encourage students to select images or sections from the magazines, food packaging, or catalogs that have textures relevant to the theme or concept you're exploring. For example, if you're focusing on food textures, they can choose images of fruits, vegetables, or packaged foods with interesting textures.
Provide students with child-safe scissors and instruct them on how to safely cut out the selected textures.
Using the Textures:
Once the textures are cut out, guide students on how to incorporate them into their art projects. They can be glued onto paper, cardboard, or other surfaces to create collages, texture rubbings, or any other artwork that involves tactile elements.
Clean-Up:
After the activity, remind students to clean up their workspaces and return any unused materials to their designated storage area. Properly dispose of any scraps or waste.
Show them images of various foods with different textures (e.g., crispy chips, creamy ice cream, bumpy broccoli).
Have students cut out pictures of their favorite foods and create a collage on a poster board, arranging the images to showcase a variety of tasty textures.
Sensory Texture Paintings:
Set up stations with different textured materials such as sandpaper, cotton balls, rice, pasta, and bubble wrap.
Give students paint and large sheets of paper.
Instruct them to dip the textured materials into the paint and then press them onto the paper to create textured paintings that represent various food textures.
Texture Food Sculptures:
Provide modeling clay or playdough in various colors.
Show students images of different foods with interesting textures (e.g., spaghetti, popcorn, marshmallows).
Encourage them to sculpt miniature versions of these foods, paying attention to replicating the textures in their clay creations.
Texture Food Collagraphs:
Teach students about printmaking and collagraph techniques (printing plates made from collaged materials).
Provide a variety of textured materials like pasta, rice, bubble wrap, and fabric scraps.
Have students create their own collagraph plates by arranging and gluing these textured materials onto sturdy cardboard.
Once the plates are dry, students can apply paint and print their textured food designs.
Texture Recipe Cards:
Have students design their own recipe cards.
Provide them with blank recipe card templates or encourage them to create their own.
Instruct students to draw or paste pictures of different foods on their recipe cards, emphasizing the texture of each ingredient and including a simple recipe or description.
Texture Food Mobiles:
Provide students with a variety of textured materials like cotton balls, sandpaper, fabric, and foam.
Show them pictures of foods with distinct textures.
Have students cut out or shape these materials to resemble the foods and then string them together to create a "tasty textures" mobile.
Texture Food Mosaics:
Show students images of foods with different textures.
Provide colored construction paper and scissors.
Instruct them to create mosaic-style representations of these foods, cutting the paper into small pieces and arranging them to mimic the textures they observe.
These activities not only allow students to explore the concept of tasty textures through a creative lens but also encourage them to develop their fine motor skills, artistic abilities, and sensory perception of food.
Garden Sculptures
Garden Sculptures:
Garden sculptures are artistic installations or decorative elements placed in gardens and outdoor spaces. They come in various forms, materials, and styles, and they can add beauty, visual interest, and a touch of art to outdoor landscapes. Common types of garden sculptures include statues, fountains, metalwork, ceramic pieces, and more, which can range from traditional to contemporary designs.
Activities to Do with Young Students:
Engaging young students in fun and educational activities is essential for their development. Here are some activities you can do with your young students:
Nature Scavenger Hunt: Take the students on a nature scavenger hunt in a nearby park or garden. Create a list of items they can find, such as leaves, rocks, flowers, and insects, and let them explore and check off the items as they find them.
Outdoor Art: Bring art supplies like colored chalk, crayons, or watercolors outdoors, and let the students create their own garden art on paper or sidewalk.
Plant a Garden: Teach them about gardening by planting flowers, herbs, or vegetables. Let them get their hands dirty while learning about plant growth and care.
Garden Sculpture Hunt: If you have access to a garden with sculptures, organize a sculpture hunt where students can explore and discover the different art pieces. Discuss the sculptures' shapes, materials, and meanings.
Storytime in the Garden: Read a book to the students in an outdoor setting like a garden or under a tree. Choose stories related to nature and encourage discussion about the characters and themes.
Outdoor Science Experiments: Conduct simple science experiments outdoors, such as making a volcano using baking soda and vinegar or observing the behavior of insects.
Bird Watching: Set up bird feeders or birdhouses and watch the local bird species that visit. Provide binoculars and field guides to help students identify the birds.
Nature Collage: Collect leaves, flowers, and other natural materials, and use them to create collages or art pieces.
Picnic and Picnic Games: Have a picnic in a local park or garden, and play classic outdoor games like tag, frisbee, or sack races.
Butterfly Watching: If possible, create a butterfly garden and observe these beautiful insects. Learn about their life cycles and habits.
Rock Painting: Collect smooth rocks and paint them with colorful designs. These painted rocks can be used as garden decorations.
Outdoor Music: Introduce simple musical instruments like tambourines or rhythm sticks and let the students make music while enjoying the outdoors.
Leaf Rubbings: Collect various leaves, place them under a sheet of paper, and rub crayons or colored pencils over them to create leaf impressions.
Cloud Watching: Lie on the grass and look up at the sky, discussing the different shapes and patterns of clouds.
Yoga or Stretching: Teach them simple yoga or stretching exercises in a peaceful garden setting to promote relaxation and mindfulness.
Colourful Animals
Here are some creative ideas you can try:
Animal Collage: Provide students with colorful magazines, old newspapers, and colored paper. Let them cut out pictures of animals and create a collage. Encourage them to use different colors and patterns to represent the animals in their natural habitats.
Finger Painting: Have a finger painting session where kids can create colorful animal scenes using their fingers. They can paint animals, trees, and backgrounds with vibrant colors.
Clay Animals: Provide clay or playdough in various colors and teach kids how to sculpt colorful animals. They can make snakes, birds, frogs, or any animal they like. Encourage them to use their imagination.
Animal Masks: Help children create animal masks using cardboard, colored paper, and craft supplies. They can pick their favorite animals and decorate the masks with colorful patterns and features.
Watercolor Animals: Give each child a drawing of an animal outline on watercolor paper. Provide watercolors and brushes, and let them paint the animals with bright and vibrant colors.
Colorful Animal Story: Read a story about colorful animals, such as "The Mixed-Up Chameleon" by Eric Carle. Afterward, have a discussion about the animals in the story and then let the kids draw or paint their own versions of the animals.
Animal Rainbow: Introduce the concept of a rainbow and its colors. Then, have children draw or paint animals that represent each color of the rainbow (e.g., red ladybugs, orange fish, yellow chicks, green frogs, blue birds, purple butterflies).
Collaborative Mural: Create a large mural with a jungle or zoo theme. Each child can contribute by drawing or painting a colorful animal on the mural. This collaborative project helps develop teamwork and creativity.
Colorful Animal Puppets: Provide templates for animal puppets, and let the children color and decorate them. Once done, they can use the puppets to create a colorful animal puppet show.
Outdoor Animal Hunt: Take the kids on an outdoor adventure to find and identify colorful animals in their natural environment, such as butterflies, birds, or flowers. Bring sketchbooks for them to draw what they see.
Animal T-Shirts: Provide plain white T-shirts and fabric markers. Let the children design and color their own animal-themed T-shirts. These can serve as keepsakes or fun clothing items.
Animal Parade: Organize a mini parade where kids dress up as their favorite colorful animals. They can create simple costumes or masks and then march around the classroom or schoolyard.
Shapes at School
Shape Scavenger Hunt: Take the students on a shape scavenger hunt around the school building or classroom. Provide them with a list of shapes (e.g., circle, square, triangle) and ask them to find objects that match each shape. They can draw or take pictures of the items they find.
Shape Collage: Give the children a variety of colored construction paper and magazines. Ask them to cut out shapes (circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, etc.) and create a collage using these shapes. They can arrange and glue them onto a larger piece of paper to make a shape-themed artwork.
Shape Printing: Provide different shapes of sponges or carved potatoes. Dip them in paint and have the children create their own patterned shape prints on paper. Encourage them to experiment with colors and arrangements.
Shape Mobiles: Cut out various shapes from colored paper and have the students create shape mobiles. They can decorate each shape with drawings, patterns, or stickers and then hang them from a string or a coat hanger to create a colorful mobile.
Shape Puzzles: Create simple shape puzzles by cutting out large shapes from cardboard and then cutting them into smaller pieces. Challenge the students to put the shapes back together like a jigsaw puzzle.
Shape Story: Read a story or create a story about a character who goes on an adventure to find different shapes in the school. Afterward, have the children draw or paint scenes from the story, emphasizing the shapes they encountered.
Shape Portraits: Provide a variety of shape templates (circles for heads, triangles for noses, rectangles for bodies, etc.) and let the children create abstract shape portraits. They can mix and match shapes to design unique characters.
Shape Shadows: On a sunny day, take the students outside and have them trace the shadows of various objects around the school using sidewalk chalk. Discuss how shadows can be different shapes depending on the angle of the sun.
Shape Sculptures: Provide modeling clay or playdough and ask the children to create three-dimensional sculptures using different shapes. They can build houses, animals, or imaginative creatures by combining shapes.
Shape Storyboards: Encourage the students to create storyboards using cut-out shapes to illustrate a simple story or sequence of events. This activity combines storytelling with shape recognition.
Shape Art Gallery: Host a mini art exhibition where each student showcases their shape-themed artwork. Discuss the different shapes and patterns used in their creations.
Shape Dance: Play music and have the children move and dance in shapes. Call out a shape, and they must quickly form that shape with their bodies. This activity combines movement with shape recognition.
Dots Everywhere
Dot Hunt: Take the students on a "dot hunt" around the school or classroom. Provide them with magnifying glasses or binoculars to help them spot dots in their environment. Encourage them to identify dots on objects like the ceiling, floors, walls, and furniture.
Dot Collage: Provide a variety of materials such as colored paper, stickers, buttons, beads, and fabric with dots of different sizes and colors. Let the students create their own dot collages by arranging and gluing these materials onto a larger piece of paper.
Dot Printing: Use different objects to create dot patterns. For example, dip the end of a pencil eraser in paint and use it to stamp dots onto paper. You can also use the bottom of a soda bottle, a cork, or a cotton swab to create different-sized dots.
Dot Portraits: Have the students create self-portraits using dots. Provide them with a photograph of themselves and a variety of dot stickers or dot markers. They can decorate their portraits by adding dots for features like eyes, noses, and mouths.
Dot Mandalas: Teach the children about mandalas and how they often start with a central dot. Provide circular templates and markers or colored pencils. Have them create their own dot mandalas by adding symmetrical patterns around a central dot.
Dot Animals: Show the students pictures of animals with spots, such as leopards, cheetahs, or ladybugs. Then, have them create their own dot-inspired animals using drawings, paintings, or even crafts like paper plate masks.
Dot Stories: Encourage the students to come up with short stories or scenes that involve dots. They can draw or craft scenes from their stories, making sure to incorporate dots in creative ways.
Dot Bingo: Create bingo cards with different dot patterns or arrangements. Call out descriptions of the dots (e.g., "five blue dots in a row") and have the students mark the corresponding dots on their cards.
Dot Sculptures: Provide modeling clay or playdough and ask the children to create 3D sculptures that feature dots. They can make sculptures of animals, people, or abstract shapes with dotted patterns.
Dot Art Gallery: Host a mini art gallery where each student displays their dot-themed artwork. Encourage them to talk about their creations and explain how they incorporated dots.
Sunny Colours
Sunshine Collage: Provide students with various shades of yellow, orange, and red paper. Encourage them to cut out shapes like suns, sunflowers, and other sunny symbols and create a sunny-themed collage.
Sunshine Handprints: Help children trace their hands on yellow paper, cut them out, and then decorate them with bright colors to resemble suns. They can add details like sunglasses, smiles, or sunglasses.
Sunny Mobiles: Have students create a colorful mobile with a sun as the centerpiece. They can use colored paper, tissue paper, and string to make hanging suns, clouds, and other sunny elements.
Sun and Sky Painting: Provide watercolor paints in shades of blue, yellow, and orange. Let the students create a beautiful sun and sky painting, experimenting with blending colors and creating gradients.
Sunny Day Masks: Give each child a paper plate and help them turn it into a sunny mask. They can paint it yellow and add features like sunglasses, a big smile, and even some sun rays.
Sunny Flower Pots: Provide small flower pots and let the students paint them with sunny colors. After the paint dries, they can plant small flowers or herbs in the pots to create their mini gardens.
Sun Catchers: Using clear plastic sheets or transparency film, have the students draw and color sunny designs with markers. Hang these sun catchers in the windows to catch the sunlight and create beautiful effects.
Sunny Bead Jewelry: Provide a variety of sunny-colored beads (yellow, orange, red) and elastic string. Students can create their sunny bracelets or necklaces, incorporating different sunny colors into their designs.
Sunny Collage Portraits: Have the children create self-portraits using a collage technique. They can cut out pictures from magazines or colored paper to create the different facial features and then use yellow and orange paper for a sunny background.
Sunny Paper Plate Frisbees: Decorate paper plates with sunny colors, and then fold them in half. These can be used as mini frisbees for outdoor play on sunny days.
Sunny Alphabet: Encourage students to create their own alphabet with sunny colors. Each letter can be designed using bright colors and decorated with sun motifs.
Sunny Storybooks: Help the children write and illustrate their own sunny-themed storybooks. They can use colorful drawings and paintings to bring their stories to life.