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Want to make MORE ART at home? Try one of these activities!
Want to make MORE ART at home? Try one of these activities!
Outdoor activities:
Outdoor activities:
Find a stick and paint it.
We've talked about different kinds of lines in art class - can you add straight lines, curved lines, dotted lines, wavy lines...?
What other patterns can you add? Have fun with it!
Or wrap your stick in brightly-colored yarn.
Make patterns and mix colors.
Add other things too - beads, feathers, smaller sticks.
Create a whole colorful forest!
What other shadows can you trace?
Trees? Plants? Animals?
Get creative!
Make a shadow drawing.
Make an arrangement of toys outside in the sun and trace the shadows.
If you move the toys closer or farther away from the paper do they get bigger or smaller?
Paint a rock.
Use the shapes you see in the rocks as inspiration for what you turn them into.
Follow these instructions to make a pinhole projector from a plastic cup and wax paper.
Did you know that this is how the first cameras were made? Artists would trace the image that appeared opposite the pinhole.
Make a nature mandala:
We have talked about symmetry in art class - make a symmetrical pattern using leaves, sticks, rocks, and more that you find outside. (Make sure you don't pick any living flowers or leaves - use what you find on the ground.)
Make a bird feeder from a paper towel or toilet paper roll.
Use a hole punch to make 4 holes at the base (these are for your stick perches to go through - make 2 a little higher and the opposite 2 a little lower so that the sticks don't run into each other) and 2 holes at the top (for your ribbon hanger to go through).
Coat the roll in peanut butter and roll in seeds. Then add your branches to make the perches, and tie a ribbon to hang it from a branch or post outside.
Indoor activities:
Indoor activities:
Make a family of handprints.
Use paint, or outline them on paper, then cut them out and make a collage.
Try some of these Zentangle patterns...
Then try filling in a shape with Zentangle patterns...
For everyone: 2nd Graders - 5th Graders
For 5th Graders who have already worked in One-Point Perspective
Try this How-to-Draw Project from Art Projects for Kids
Construction activities:
Construction activities:
Toilet paper may be hard to find these days, but we can still have fun with the empty rolls!
You can use straws to add ninja swords and belts, add construction paper to make flowers, or a mermaid tail, or tissue paper to make a fire-breathing dragon.
Use a paper towel roll to make a pencil cup decorated like your favorite animal or character.
The possibilities are endless!
Make your own castle from whatever you have around.
Look through your recycling for containers that would make a good castle, house, garage, or fairy house....
If you cut a slit 1/2 way through a circle and then overlap the edges, you'll get a great roof shape!
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