Pre-K Art
Projects Expectations:
My goal is to provide students with fun, creative projects to help exercise the Right side of the brain and to off set all of the screen time! The assignments are chunked into "Parts" My expectation is for students to do at least ONE "Part" a week in a 30 minute sitting. Of course students can put more into it IF they want. I will be grading finished projects to give the students credit for their hard work and amazing talents. If you are still wanting more, feel free to check out other grade levels. You might see something to inspire you there as well.
IF YOU ARE JUST SEEING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME: No big deal, relax. Just work at a pace that makes it fun for you. When you do get it done please send me a pic to my email. mruppert@resstpaul.org
Enjoy the process! I am happy to answer any questions. Stay Well, Mrs. Ruppert
Class Projects
Caught you doing extra art!!
Sydney
Shout outs to a Job Well Done: Arietta, Emily, James, Arthur, Kerry, Hazel, Sydney
Art at home.
Art through literature-Should I Share My Ice Cream?
Begin by watching this fun video, a dilemma about sharing! I loved the voices-they made me laugh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNsiRRjhIws
Materials: White base paper, Colored construction paper, glue, scissors. If you do not have constriction paper you can hunt for the colors you need in magazines or used cards. Another idea is to color areas of paper with crayons.
Part I-Students need to draw a triangle for the base of their ice cream on a brown colored paper. Have student carefully cut out the triangle and glue it to the white base paper. Next, student can draw circles on top of the cone for each scoop of ice cream. One-three scoops would be great!
Using glue or glue stick put down glue inside the first circle. Choose the first "flavor" or colored paper and tear little pieces off put them into the pre-glued circle. (Helpful hint-dampen a paper towel and fold it up. Have your student rub their finger of the wet towel then gently touch paper piece. It helps pick up the paper while keeping little fingers clean,)
This is a good place to pause if you want to break project up into two sessions.
Place papers in zip lock bag for later.
Part II or continue on- Finish glueing you ice cream colors. When done think of topping, Whipped cream could be cotton or white paper. Sprinkle could be beads or small torn paper, add a cherry or chocolate chips, chocolate sause
-Good heavens now I am hungry!!
Part III- a fun follow up activity, students can try their hand at drawing the pig and the elephant eating their ice creams but together and on the top of the drawing have them write the word SHARING! Have a discussion to see what your child's choice would be.
Please have student write name and grade on paper.
Shout outs to a Job Well Done: Arietta, Declan, Sydney, Kerry, Arthur,
Art at Home
Art through Literature: A Fish Out of Water.
Begin by watching this hilarious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOd65lRvhE
Materials: Piece of white paper, pencil (I drew mine in sharpie so you can see it. You can always use a sharpie after, but you don't need to) crayons, crayola markers, paintbrush, cup of water, string or yarn or pipe cleaner.
Part I: Let us get our drawing started! Start with a shape that looks like an eye. Draw two lines out the end for the tail. Finish off your tail line, add triangles for fins, add face line, add eyes, mouth, eyebrows. Finally, draw a bag around your fish.
Part II: Next, get your crayons! I made my head, fins, and tail different color orange then my body. Crayola markers next, I used two different blues and colored in the water, not all the way-leaving some white. With a wet paintbrush, blend your markers. Carefully cut out the bag. Wrap string, ribbon, yarn or pipe cleaner around neck of bag- so the water won't leak out!
Now remember: Don't feed your fish too much! Send me a pick, I'd love to see your work!!
Rainbow Art Gallery-Awesome Job: Arietta, Sydney
Art at Home: Rainbow colors and fine motor skills-cutting practice.
Begin by listening to Dolly Parton sing about a rainbow. What colors make up the rainbow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA4zViUbH8c
Materials: White and black paper, crayola markers, cup of water and a paintbrush, crayon or pencil, glue stick, scissors.
Part I- Starting with a red marker color a strip from the top to the bottom of your paper. Do the same thing using orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
Part II- Dip your paint brush in to the water and gently blend red and orange together. Next, blend orange and yellow. Work only two side by side colors at a time. Continue until all of the colors have been blended and let dry.
Part III- Have an adult draw 5 different lines on the back for you to cut. (Tight zig-zag v lines would be too challenging for this age group, see sample above. Take your scissors and carefully cut along the first line. I think it is fun to cut out all the lines then try to put the puzzle back!! When you are done playing glue your pieces to the black paper leaving a little black in between. How does it look? I makes me thing of a Navajo Blanket! BEAUTIFUL!
Send me a pic of your masterpiece!
Dino Dough Fun! Sydney
Art at Home: Art through Literature "Dinosaurumpus" If this seems too stressful move to next assignment.
Art at Home: Students will read about all sorts of dinosaurs creating all sorts of noise! Next, they will create their own dinosaur fossil using a salt dough recipe.
Begin by watching the read along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6DHtnltHKs
Materials: plastic dinosaur, sea shells, sharks teeth, crayola markers or watercolors, cup water, brush.
Salt Dough recipe: 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, 1/2-3/4 cup of warm water. Air dry for several days or bake on lowest setting for 1-2 hours.
Begin by taking a look at some crazy dinosaurs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6DHtnltHKs
Part I: Help an adult measure and mix your salt dough. Find some dinosaurs. Break off a fist sized portion and roll into a big ball. Flatten it out a bit. Make an impression of your dinosaur by pressing the body into the dough. (I had to do it a couple times to get it just right!) I had some sharks teeth so I pressed them too. You could also press the dinos footprints into the dough. Make as many as you want-they make great paper weights! Have an adult bake it in the oven for an hour.
Part II: Using crayola markers or watercolors color your "dino fossil" If you are using markers, take a wet paint brush and blend the marker strokes to cover all the white dough.
Now it's time to celebrate! Swing your arms, thump your feet, swing your tail to the dinosaur beat!
Shadow art gallery! Arietta, Sydney
Art at Home: Shadow Art!
Students will create an abstract design using the power of the sun! Students will select interesting toy shapes and sketch their shadows.
Read along with the story, The Day I Met My Shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L52xSUtJNg
Materials: Morning or afternoon sun (Best if it is not directly over head) Toys, blocks, paper, pencil, crayons or markers
Part I: Take your paper and pencil or crayon or marker outside. Find a nice place to sit and spread your paper out. Set up your toys on your blocks on the edge of your paper. On a nice sunny day you should see their shadows. Trace the shadows with your crayon. Flip the paper over, rearrange your toys and do it again!
Part II: Pick your favorite side and using your crayons or markers color the BACKGROUN or artist also call it the negative space!
You have created an abstract piece of art! Send me a pic!
Way to go!! Hazel
Art at Home: Rainbow Hair!
Students will use fine motor skills to draw, cut and paste a crazy character!
Materials: Black paper, skin colored construction paper (or color a piece), black marker, white paper, rainbow colors, scissors, glue.
Part I: Draw a circle on a skin colored paper, and ears to sides. Draw two circles for eyes, add pupils. Use a black marker to draw in nose, eyebrows and mouth.
Part II: Cut rainbow colors into strips. Glue to the back of the head. Glue head to black paper. Would YOU like rainbow hair?
Send me a pic!
Fun with Harry! Arietta
Art through literature: Harry the Dirty Dog
Students will draw, cut and create a mirror image to represtent Clean Haryy and Dirty Harry!
Begin by listening to the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0OY3236jw
Materials: White paper, black paper, a background paper, pencil, marker, crayons, scissors, glue
Part I: Clean Harry! Leave some room on the left (for tail) draw a straight line to top of paper. Draw a 'M". Draw an eye are and then go straight for the nose and angle down. Make a fronp paw and tummy. Lastly, come out straight for bottom paw and make a little tail. Cut out Harry. Give hime some spots, eyebrows and toenails. Cut him out. Glue on or make eye.
Part II: Dirty Harry! Take clean Harry and turn him over. Trace dirty Harry from the back.. Use your crayon to make spots. Cut out Dirty Harry and add eye. Glue both down to a background paper. The two dogs make a mirror image, just like when you look in the mirror and see yourself!!
Send me a Pic!
Tico Tango! Arietta
Art through song and literature: The Parrot Tico Tango
Students will build their own Tico Tango using paper plates.
Begin with the sing along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t0Ks3el9kA
Materials: 3 paper plates, scissors, markers, 1 googley eye, colored construction paper, glue
Part I: Begin by making the body for Tico, fold a paper plate in half and color it with your markers. Next, fold another paper plate in half and cut following the line in plate to make a smaller semi-circle for the head. Using a black marker draw beak, smile, eye patch. If you do not have a googley eye you can draw one. Color with your markers. Using your third plate cut off a piece for a wing and cut a triangle for the foot. Snip two small triangles from bottom to make the talons. Color with your markers.
Part II: Cut strips of colored construction paper in long rectangles to make tail feathers. Fan them out and glue them inside the bottom of the folded body. Glue the body closed. Glue the head closed and glue to attach to body. Glue wing and foot, and eye in place. Set aside to dry. I attached a pipe cleaner behind the head so my Tico can "fly." Have fun, send me a pic!!
Distant Learning: Shapes, Lines, Scavenger Hunt, Patterns.
Materials: Paper, markers, glue, beads, buttons, noodle, rocks and/or beans.
Part I: Divide your paper into 4 sections. In each section draw a shape; circle, oval, square, diamond, heart, rectangle, triangle... Color each shape a DIFFERENT color.
Part II: In the negative space or background of each shape create different line designs in different colors. Some lines can be straight, some bumpy, some sharp, some can criss cross....
Part III: Scavenger Hunt! Find different manipulatives or items such as beans, popcorn, buttons, small rocks, beads, noodle....
Part IV: Glue around shapes and create patterns with your items to surround the image.
Distant Learning: Art through litterature- Me and My Dragon Puppert Making
Begin by reading along to story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZeWMpHzA0o
Materials: Toliet paper roll, green paper (or color paper green), glue or tape, Pom poms large and small, (Could use balls of paper or balls or tissure paper) Googley eyes, red tissue paper or red napkins, or red ribbons, wine cork.
Part I: Cut a piece of green paper to fit around toiliet paper roll. Wrap around roll and glue and/or tape. Tuck in ends. Roll a piece of tape, put aside. Take a piece of red tissue paper and cut into thin strips. Attach to tape. Attach stickey part of tape to inside of the mouth. Glue eyes, nose, google eyes into place and allow to dry.
I attached a wine cork to bottom to make an easy handle for my puppet. You can blow through roll to make fire fly!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Students create their very own Irish Potato head. Students start with their potato. They must make a rubbing with a black crayon to discover the potatos eyes. They glue down their potato then use supplies at a station to assemble their Potato. The background was stamped with a green pepper.
Art through literature-In Like a Lion out like a Lamb
Students will help the lion exit to welcome in the spring! Students wil draw their own lion using simple shapes and a black crayon. On a seperate piece of paper students will create a rainbow mane. Finally, studetns will cut the mane and glue head on. That is something to roar about.
Art through literature: One Winter's Day Collage
Students will learn selflessness and kindness in the story of One Winter's Day. Students will begin this project by glueing tissue squares on two triangles. Later students will
assemble their forrest by cutting out trees, glueing them to background, Adding the base and creating the branches in the tree with a marker. A cardinal is added to the tree followed by glitter for snow.
Art through literature: The Mitten by Jan Brett
Students will hear the story of the Mitten. Students will get their own mittens to design and color with construction paper crayons. Snowflakes will be added and the students will use their clothes pin to attach to their frames.
Every year RSPS celebrates Christmas with a big Jesse tree in the school foyer. Each grade level makes a special ornament to the tree. Pre-K will make the lamb.
Pre-K pointalism!
Studetns will create an indian corn usint the dotting techniques of pointalism. Next, students will use small markers to color all things fall. Then cut out their strips and glue a frame for their corn.
Art through literature- Pre-K students will discover the world of shapes with the help of many hungary monsters! They will practice their collage skills to create their own monster family. How spooky can they go!
Magical Primary Colors!
Students receive a paper with their initial taped in blue painter tape. Students are instructed to draw and color shapes on to the background of their paper using the primary colors of yellow, blue and red. Next, students are given clean water and brushes and are instructed to blend their marker colors. Magic happens! Yellow and red makes orange, blue and yellow makes green and red and blue make purple! Finally the blue tape is peeled away to reveal their bright white initial!
Art to Remember fund raiser art work. Students will be using basic print making skills as they stamp an image of their "angelic" self singing their Christmas pageant song!
Parents will have the option to order Art to Remember products in time for Christmas.
Art through literature: Dog's Colorful Day
Students follow dog through his busy day of collecting colors and counting. Students use a variey of matericals to capture dog in all his colorful glory. 9/13
Art through literature; Snappy little Colors
Snappy and his friends will introduce the Pre-K students to all the colors! Afterwards, students will create a collage using fine motor skills as they build a color filled sunshine, identifying colors and counting as they create!!
I will create a color sheet to take home as a review of the days lesson.
9/6
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