Kindergarten 2023-24

Welcome to the Kindergarten art page!

Kindergarten has art class two times a week, Tuesday at 8:25 and Friday at 2:55. We learn to use things like lines, shapes, and colors to make artwork, and practice using lots of different art materials such as paint, pencils, scissors, glue and clay. I will be posting some pictures of Kindergarten artwork on this page, so parents, please visit often to see what your children have been doing in art!

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students used tempera paint to make symmetrical designs that mixed red, yellow, and blue to make new colors. Then they used their designs to create beautiful butterflies and other creatures!

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art (color).

1.b. I can create art that explores the principles of art (symmetrical balance).

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students have been learning different ways to use paint and brushes. They used liquid watercolors and large brushes to cover their whole papers with background color. They talked about how trees have thick trunks and thinner branches as they get further away from the trunk, and painted trees using only brown paint to make thick and thin lines for the trunk and branches. When the paintings were dry, they printed with paint and sponges, cardboard, and their fingers to add leaves, grass, and flowers to their paintings.

Standards:

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials

3.b. I can recognize, observe, and describe art I see in the community.

Kindergarten students at work

Cats!

In Kindergarten art class we have been looking at books that have fun or interesting illustrations. We look at how artists use lines, shapes, colors, and textures to tell a story with their pictures. We read the book, "Splat the Cat" and looked at how the illustrator used texture to make the cats look furry. The kindergarten students then created their own cat fur using black ink and a toothbrush. They finished their drawings with chalk to add colors and details.

What we are doing:

We talked about some symbols of Easter and what they mean. Kindergarten students then made a stained glass window design with tissue paper and glue on clear plastic sheets. They placed a window stencil over their "stained glass" that contained two Easter symbols: a cross and an egg shape. To finish their designs, students wrote short sentences on their windows, such as "He is risen!" or "Jesus is alive!"

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art (Shape).

3.b. I can recognize, observe, and describe art I see in the community.

Kindergarten's Purple Crayon Adventures

Sometimes in art class we look at books that have fun or interesting illustrations. We look at how artists use lines, shapes, colors, and textures to tell a story with their pictures. This week we read Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, and saw how Harold created an adventure using only his purple crayon. Then kindergarten students created their own adventures with purple crayons and very long sheets of paper.

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art (line).

2.b. I can make art inspired by my own experiences.

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students created mixed media paintings of themselves on a rainy day. They used oil pastels, watercolors, pencils, crayons, colored paper, scissors, and glue. It was fun to create artwork with many different materials.

Standards:

2.a. I can express my own ideas using a variety of art materials and tools.

2.b. I can make art inspired by my own experiences.

What we are doing:

We read the book If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most and looked at how the illustrations helped to tell the story. In the book, the "now" parts of the pictures are drawn in black and white, and just the dinosaurs are in color. Kindergarten students drew their own versions of how things would look if dinosaurs came back now.

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students created mixed media self portraits using several different art materials and ways of working. They drew with oil pastels, painted with watercolors, printed with their hands, posed for photographs, and answered interview questions about how each of them was created with different looks, likes, and interests. They arranged and glued their photos and interview sentences to create a mixed media collage. Their self portraits are hanging up at school, and we enjoy looking at them and seeing how God has made each person unique and special.

Standards:

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials

2.a. I can express my own ideas using a variety of art materials and tools.

Kindergarten students drew and designed vehicles and attached circles to give them wheels that turn!

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students worked with the art element of space by drawing things inside a jar, cutting out the jar, and placing it on a background that creates the illusion of a table and a wall. They learned that artists can arrange objects in their drawings to create space.

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art (space).

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials (scissors and glue).

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students used several different materials and worked with the art elements of shape, space, and texture to create mixed media artworks about space. They traced round objects in different sizes to create circles, then filled the circles with textures using crayon rubbings. They added stars with white oil pastels and filled the space around the planets with a black paint wash. The final touch was a rocket made from cut paper shapes.

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art (shape, space, texture).

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials.

Then and Now

What do we know about life long ago? This is one of the questions kindergarten students are thinking about in their classroom. Many children made their own toys long ago. We made our own clay marbles in art class using several different colors of clay. The students are looking forward to playing with them when they are finished!

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students listened and followed directions for using several kinds of lines to draw the basic shape of a castle. They used horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines, straight and curved, short and long, and lines that followed a pattern. Then they completed their castle drawings with their own ideas for details and colors.

Kindergarten students made star ornaments from clay, gold acrylic, and melted plastic beads.

Merry Christmas!

Kindergarten students used black markers and their fingerprints to create a border of Christmas lights. Inside the border they drew pictures or wrote Christmas messages.

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students learned how to use symmetrical balance by folding and cutting paper to create a turtle collage.

Standards:

1.b. I can create art that explores the principles of art.

3.a. I can describe art work using art terminology at my grade level.

Turtles!

Kindergarten students made textured circles by stepping on balls of clay, with their shoes then added heads, legs, and tails to form cute turtles. After the turtles were fired they used glazes to make them shiny and colorful.

Standards:

1.e. I can create both two- and three- dimensional works of art.

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students worked on their paper folding skills and following directions to create origami dog heads. After folding, they glued them onto white paper and used markers to draw details, the rest of the dog, and a background.

Standards:

1.e. I can create both two- and three- dimensional works of art.

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials.

Kindergarten students practiced listening and following directions for using lines and shapes to create a mystery drawing. Some students figured out quickly what they were drawing, and by the time they had drawn several curved lines, diagonal and horizontal lines, and circles everyone had discovered that they were drawing owls.

What we are doing:

Kindergarteners drew pumpkins, and learned how to use lines to make a shape look 3-dimensional (a form), even though the paper is flat. They also mixed yellow and red paint to create different shades of orange to paint their pumpkins. Finally, they cut out and glued their pumpkins onto a night background made on black paper.

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art (line, color, shape, and form).

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials.

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students will have several opportunities to work with clay this year. For their first clay project, they made clay slabs, cut them into shapes, and added textures and features to create these birds.

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art (texture).

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials.

1.e. I can create both two- and three- dimensional works of art.

What we are doing:

In Kindergarten we learn that there is variety in art, just as there is variety in God's creation. God created the world with many different kinds of lines, shapes, colors, and textures, and we can create art that way too. We read the book I'm Not Just a Scribble by Diane Alber, and students made creative drawings that started with scribbles. Some even made new colors by scribbling two or more colors together!

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art (line, color, and texture).

2.a. I can express my own ideas using a variety of art materials and tools.

What we are doing:

Kindergarteners practiced following directions and listening to art vocabulary words, and created drawings of birds using step-by-step instructions. Then they added their own details, colors, and backgrounds to their drawings.

Lesson from Drawing with Children by Mona Brooks

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art.

3.a. I can describe art work using art terminology at my grade level.

What we are doing:

The kindergarten students tried out many kinds of art tools and materials in a mixed media collage project. They traced their shoes and turned the shapes into fish, decorated them with markers, printed shapes with paint on paper, used paint and sponges for texture, cut with scissors, and worked with glue sticks to put all the pieces together. They did a great job trying out many different things!

Standards:

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials.

2.a. I can express my own ideas using a variety of art materials and tools.

Mixed media collage, part 2

Students are printing with tempera paint and circular objects to create background for their mixed media collages. Next time they will complete their collages by adding their fish and other textured objects.

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students are beginning a mixed media collage projects by tracing their shoes and turning them into colorful fish. They will continue the project by painting, printing, and adding texture to their collages.

What we are doing:

K students practiced using scissors safely and correctly, and used their cutting skills to cut out a variety of shapes. After the shapes were cut out, they assembled them to make people, glued them on colored paper, and decorated them with markers.

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art.

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials.

What we are doing:

Kindergarten students are learning new skills with art tools and materials, and are practicing using them safely. They have also been working on using lines and shapes in their work. Today they used circles, semicircles, and quarter circles to create animals, people, and other things.

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art.

1.c. I can demonstrate improvement in my coordination and development of skills in the use of basic visual art tools and materials.

Kindergarten self portraits

During the second week of art class, Kindergarten students drew themselves using black markers on white paper. They are wearing different clothes and doing different things, but all of them are smiling! They also used oil pastel to make different kinds of lines, then used watercolor paint to fill in the space around and between the lines. This made a colorful background for their self portrait drawings.

What we're doing:

On their first day of art, Kindergarten students used small squares to make lines that spelled out their names. They practiced using glue sticks correctly to put on just enough glue to stick the squares to the paper.

Standards:

1.a. I can create art that explores the elements of art.

1.d. I can use art room tools and media safely (scissors, clay, paints, etc).

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