Grade 1

Being Green!

Hello First Graders!

This is an assignment I did with a class this week that was so much fun! I recorded the lesson so you can follow along and draw with me! You can start the drawing in pencil like I did and then switch to marker/ crayon for outlining over your pencil drawing afterwards. Take your time and make your frog as serious, silly and funny as you wish!

For a background, you can have your frog sitting on a lily pad, a log or even just in the grass while trying to catch flies! Make it your own creation.

Color can be added with anything you choose...marker, crayon, colored pencils, paint, watercolor, etc.

Please let me know if you need any help along the way. You can email me at: diane.scherny@swanseaschools.org

Love, Mrs. S. :)

Below, please check out the famous "Kermit the Frog" singing his song!

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The 'Frog and Toad' book series are one of my favorites.

Look at the spots and bumps on the frog. It's looking right at you!

This shows the arm and leg design of the frog!

Kermit is such a cool, green frog.

Swimming Fish

Art Assignment:

Bring the fun of the ocean and visiting the aquarium home by making this cute fish craft. These colorful fish are simple to create and they look great with the fishbowl background. The stamped fish bubbles are lots of fun to make!

Trace a plate or round bowl cover on a white/light-colored paper to create your fish bowl. Leave one side of the circle open for the top of the fish bowl shape.

Using light blue colored paper or crayon-colored paper, cut a smaller circle for water area in fish bowl. Add small curve of tan paper for sand area at bottom.

Note: You may use green paper instead of tissue paper if you'd like.

Note: This is if you are using paint chip samples for your fish body. You can cut them out of colored paper on your own, instead.

Materials: white, colored paper, scissors, pencil glue stick, marker, white paint (optional)

You may also make the bubbles with a light colored marker instead of paint.

Superhero Self-Portrait

Learn how to draw a superhero with some basic shapes, and then you can mix and match to make your own customized self portrait. Unlock the hero inside you!

What superhero do you want to be today?

Hello artists! This is a fun project I thought you might like to do while creating an imaginary figure of yourself!

Everyone wants to be a superhero, but whatever your superpower is, create yourself as your own hero! Think of the things that make you special or something you would like to do to help out in our world. If you could do it as a superhero, what would you do?

Think what a typical day is for your superhero. I want to encourage you to get creative and think about not only the powers your superhero possesses but how your hero gets through a regular old day with them!

Materials:

regular drawing paper
pencil
black marker
colored markers

One of the really good things about drawing a superhero these days, is that there are so many cool poses to get inspired by.

These line drawings give you some basic shapes to start with, but hopefully you will make them into your own.

Add a cape, adjust a skirt, change the monogram, or change the colors. Try using this as a starting point and see what kind of new superhero you can dream up!

This video is very inspiring! You are so much more than you know...

Adding a word to describe your superhero would be a nice touch to your art! Good luck!

Under the Dirt

Here’s how to draw vegetables and their root system while they grow in a garden. You can even include a worm or two and a butterfly!

While I have been planting in my garden, I've been thinking about what we plant and how they look not just above the dirt, but below. So much important work is going on underneath where we can't see! I thought we could draw what really is going on in the soil as our plants are growing.

Vegetables that grow in the ground are called root vegetables. This means their roots really are the parts of the vegetable that we eat!

What you’ll need:

8.5x11" white paper held horizontally (left to right)
black / brown marker or crayon
colored markers or crayons
pencil

Art Assignment: (step-by-step below)

Begin this assignment by drawing the ground line.
Draw a turnip as shown in the middle.
Add a beet shape to the left.
Add a carrot shape to the right.
Add a smaller carrot centered on the left.
Add a radish shape centered on the right.
Erase the ground lines inside each vegetable.
You can put an expression on your vegetable... (silly, scared, sleepy, surprised)
Add worms below, and butterfly and sky above.
Trace with a marker and color.
You can even add a small amount of glue on soil area of your coloring adding real dirt on brown area of your picture!

Steps for drawing

Hello first graders! I hope you are all well! I think of you often! With all the windy days we have been having, I thought you might enjoy this book about how things can get blown around from the wind...like a pinwheel!

Adding a personal touch of your own art to your garden is fun while you are waiting for everything you planted to grow!

Pinwheels

What you’ll need:

5x5" old artwork, new art to create or colorful paper
scissors
pipe cleaner
straw or small branch
hole punch (optional)

Garden Pinwheel Art

*While using scissors, please have a member of your family near for help in cutting.

Art Assignment:

Begin this easy pinwheel craft by gathering several pieces of your art. Cut each piece into a 4″x 4″ or 5″x 5″ square. Next fold the square in half at the corners, making a triangle. Unfold and repeat the this step from the other corner. This should give you an “X” shape on your paper when you unfold it.
With a family member present, using scissors, make four diagonal cuts on the folded lines of the “X” toward the paper’s center. Stop at least 1/2" from the center.
Next fold the corner to the left of each cut into the center. Hold the folded points in place while you push the pipe cleaner through the center or use a hole punch to create a hole and then slide the pipe cleaner through it. Make sure that you put holes in all four folded corners. You will need all four in order for your pinwheel to be formed. Twist the artwork back and forth around the pipe cleaner a few times until the paper slides easy back and forth. This ensures your pinwheel will be able to turn in the wind.
If the artwork you are recycling is just one sided flip it over, art side down, before beginning this step. (You may also create artwork on both sides of your paper.) Doing this allows the colored portions of the artwork to be seen.
Wrap the ends of the pipe cleaner around the straw or stick. Make sure they are tight to avoid your pinwheel sliding down to the bottom.
That’s the last step! Give it a try, blow on the pinwheel and watch it spin! Now your pinwheel craft is ready to find it’s new home in your garden.

Check out this pinwheel garden in New York City that is celebrating Prospect Park's 150th anniversary. Each pinwheel was made by people from the community. The pinwheel material is weatherproof. It is made from crushed stones. Even in the rain, it will hold up fine and not get soft like regular paper would. Each pinwheel has a message inside of why the park is important to them! Maybe you could have your own personal message inside your pinwheel art!

Cardboard Animal Art

Even if you don't have a pet, by using the body shape of the cat as a base, you can change it a bit according to the animal you choose! A giraffe could be created from the cats' main body shape using a paper towel tube for neck and toilet tissue tubes for legs. Try it and let me know how you make out. I hope you are doing well these days ... thinking of you!

Love to you...

Guess what this couch is made of . . . Yes ... cardboard! The pillows and sofa cushions are wrapped with brown kraft paper. Cardboard is sturdier than you think!

It would be a great place for your cardboard animal to curl up on the sofa!

This cardboard structure is on its' way to becoming a chair!

You can see the support pieces on the bottom of the chair.

Art Assignment:

Step 1

Step 3

Step 2

Step 4

What do you think the top part of this "snake" is made of?

(Send me your answers ... diane.scherny@swanseaschools.org)

Hello! I thought you may like this activity that can you can make with your family and play with after!

This homemade play dough recipe is soft, lasts a long time, doesn’t stain little hands, and uses common ingredients you probably already have. Plus it is also non-toxic.

Plus it’s super quick and easy to make (you can make a batch in about 5 minutes) and less expensive than buying ready made play dough.

Homemade play dough is easy to make and store. Just drop it in a ziploc bag and it will last for months.

Llamas look pretty similar to their Alpaca cousins. The biggest difference is their hair. Alpacas are raised for their hair whereas the llamas hair isn’t as fine or fluffy. They are raised mostly as pack animals.

Enjoy this little llama story!

Llama Love - Assignment

For all you first graders who are llama-lovers ...

(Hello, Mrs. Mello's class!)

Enjoy this activity and please share!

Art Assignment

First fold your paper in 4 parts to help with your sketch. It would be best to use pencil on white drawing paper.
Follow the steps to draw the llama. Use the guide as a reference or look at pictures that you have found in books or in a google internet search.
When drawing the llama, sometimes we tend to make the legs longer than they should be. Llama legs are quite short! And they have a big body. So if you are finding your llama is looking a bit funny, check the length of the legs.
Add details little by little once llama body is complete!
Create the background of your choice - whether it is a scene from the llama's environment or your own unique background.

What you’ll need:

12″ x 18″ white drawing paper

pencil

black marker (waterproof if you have one)

watercolor paints (may substitute colored pencils)

colored markers

Below are a few drawing exercises to help you along!

Bubble Painting

Some outdoor fun for you on a warm day...

Art Enrichment Learning:

Add three tablespoons of bubble solution and two tablespoons of paint to a cup.
Mix the paint and bubble solution together.
Place a piece of paper on the grass or a table.
Dip the bubble wand or a straw into the bubble paint and then blow out bubbles so they land on the paper.
See what you can make of the neat shapes you just made by how they landed on the page!

Enjoy this song from one of my favorites . . .

"It's you, I like!"

Taking of a favorite from Picasso, create your own painting from the original inspiration!

Bouquet of Peace by Picasso

Pablo Picasso was one of the most talked about artists in the 20th century. He painted, drew, and made sculptures, in a way no one had ever seen before.

Bouquet of Peace

Art Enrichment Learning:

With Spring finally here, watching the flowers come up in my yard is always a treat to see!
I thought it would be nice to study a different artwork of Picasso's than the portrait/face we did in class.
Placing one of your hands or both down on the paper, trace them with a pencil. Include part of your wrist and arm if you would like. Outline with black marker or crayon. You may also trace your hand/arm on a separate piece of paper first, then cut out and glue it onto your paper with your drawn flowers.
Using different colors for your own bundle of flowers, put them together on your paper like you just picked them.
Remember to place the flowers behind your hand. Your drawn hand will be over the flowers.
Sign your name in the bottom right corner just like Picasso did!

With your love of animals, I thought this short tour of Australia's Zoo would be nice to see!

Check out that turtle! Notice the natural designs on it's shell!

The Feeling Jam Jar

Just as we created the "Memory Jar" project recently, this is similar, but with a twist!

Art Enrichment Learning:

Fold your paper in half and sketch outer line for jam jar shape you would like. Put a jar at home in front of you to use while drawing as a guide.
Cut paper along pencil line, remembering not to cut fold area.
Draw in your details on jar and lid.
With crayon/colored pencil, outline the pencil line with chosen colors.
Coloring inside the jar, you may use watercolor, marker or colored pencil to create the "jam.".
On top of the color base just created, with a thin, black marker, express your feelings with words that describe you. They may be upper/lowercase and different styles to create interest.
Continue to fill the jar with words that are meaningful to you.
Give your jar a label to describe what the contents are all about...special you!

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