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Hello Awesome Vestal Hills Artists! This will be your final art project for this school year. These paper boats would make a perfect gift for your dad for Father's Day, coming up on June 21. Try out different papers and ways to decorate.
Hello Awesome Vestal Hills Artists! This will be your final art project for this school year. These paper boats would make a perfect gift for your dad for Father's Day, coming up on June 21. Try out different papers and ways to decorate.
See you all at the End of Year Parade!! --Mrs. Adams
See you all at the End of Year Parade!! --Mrs. Adams
Ms. Adams' June 3 Art Challenge: Nature Mandalas
Ms. Adams' June 3 Art Challenge: Nature Mandalas
A Mandala is a round design that often uses symbolism in many cultures. We can create a ‘mandala’ from objects in nature by arranging the items in a balanced, circular design (also known as radial design).
Take advantage of some of our beautiful weather, go outside and start collecting many objects from nature: sticks, rocks, leaves, acorns etc etc! You will need several (or more) of each item.
Place one object (or small group of that object) in a space (on the ground) that will work well to build your mandala. This will be the ‘center’ of your circle.
Now begin laying the objects around that central point in an even, balanced design. Try to make your mandala a good size, at least as big as a bicycle tire! And be creative with your design; take your time and make it super interesting! I hope you post pictures of your beautiful Mandalas!
Finish the Photo
Finish the Photo
Ms. Adams' May 19 Art Challenge!
Cut out images from a magazine, newspaper or postcard, and glue them to a piece of paper. Then expand on the image using your imagination (in pencil, watercolor, markers, etc.). You can place several cut-outs on one piece of paper to make it even more intriguing!
This fun Friday art activity invites students to look at these two paintings and the world around them in terms of all five of their senses!
MyFiveSenses.pdf
Big Little Art
Big Little Art
Ms. Adams' May 11th art challenge is TOY PHOTOGRAPHY! All you need is a camera, phone or tablet. Here are some fun examples, guidance from Ms. Adams and a short video about a boy who is great at photographing toys.
Ms. Adams' May 11th art challenge is TOY PHOTOGRAPHY! All you need is a camera, phone or tablet. Here are some fun examples, guidance from Ms. Adams and a short video about a boy who is great at photographing toys.
Check out Flat Van Gogh! He stars in Ms. Adams' latest video, and you can make your own with these two printables...
Flat Van Gogh.pdfFlat Van Gogh Accessories.pdfSunday, May 10, is Mother's Day! Thank the mom(s) in your life with a Sunflower Card, inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. Ms. Adams' video will show you how, while the other will teach you about Van Gogh's life and beautiful work. Click on the sunflower painting to learn even more!
April 29 Drawing Challenge: a portrait in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)! Here are two examples, three videos to help you learn, a printable blank portrait + reference sheet, AND Ms. Adams' very own sample portrait:
portrait blank.pdfportrait fruits veggies.pdf
Our amazing Ms. Adams has begun making videos about creating art at home.
Today's adventure: Scratch Art!
Today's adventure: Scratch Art!
Foil People
Foil People
Your Art Space
Your Art Space
A Sign for Your Studio
A Sign for Your Studio
Little Book
Little Book
April 22nd drawing challenge: the Ed Emberley Alphabet!
April 22nd drawing challenge: the Ed Emberley Alphabet!
ed emberly alphabet.pdf
Ed Emberley has a wonderful website that lets you sample his many drawing books! Your student can learn to make fingerprint creatures like these, springtime shape collages or much, much more.
In addition to lots of fun books teaching kids to draw using simple shapes, Ed Emberley wrote GO AWAY, BIG GREEN MONSTER!, which helps children tackle fear by chasing away a not-too-scary monster bit by bit. Here's a delightful KidTime StoryTime video of it!
Hi again, Vestal Hills! This art activity is to create a color wheel from objects found around your house. K-2nd students should create a 6-color color wheel, and grades 3-5 should create a 12-color color wheel. --Ms. Adams
Look at this color wheel. The three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) are equally spaced.
The primary colors mix to create the secondary colors; orange, green, and violet.
If you mix one primary (P)and one secondary (S) color you create a tertiary color(T).
Have fun! Share photos of your colors wheels to our FB group or via email if you can!!
Kids of all ages can Museum from Home with Corning's Rockwell Museum!
Kids of all ages can Museum from Home with Corning's Rockwell Museum!
Creative-Writing-Prompts-AR.pdfThere's an Art-Inspired Writing Challenge; with different prompts for different ages; the deadline is May 29.
The current Easy At-Home Art Project is simple print-making for ages 5+ (with supervision)
There are also Digital Art Hunts and wonderful activity sheets that guide kids (ages vary by activity) through looking at art and then attempting their own.
Learning origami requires students to follow directions and improve their fine motor skills, and it doesn't require special paper! You can use any paper you have at home--heavy-duty gift wrap works well--although something as thick as construction paper doesn't allow for neat folds. If you color the paper before you use it, you create your own completely unique origami paper!
There are lots of ways to learn origami online. The Origami Fun site has directions, videos and printable PDFs like the Pelican (below), organized by level of difficulty. Many of their Origami for Kids designs have only 7 steps! For more complex designs like the jumping frog (also below), a video can be helpful. This one is by Jo Nakashima, who has a whole YouTube channel and blog devoted to teaching origami. Finally, for inspiration and our dino fans, here's a page of amazing dinosaur skeletons created solely out of folded paper. Happy folding!
The Letters of Love Challenge is an art assignment from the Greece Central School District that we can all attempt: "Share the healing powers of the arts! Write a letter, make a card or draw a picture to our elders isolated in nursing homes. Mail letters to Lifespan, Attn: Julie, 1900 South Clinton Ave, Rochester, NY 14618 and email a picture copy to Mrs. Wiggins at janice.wiggins@greececsd.org. I would like to keep track of how many letters we were able to send."
Where STEM meets art: paper helicopters!
Where STEM meets art: paper helicopters!
Get crafty! From this simple-but-adorable Paper Plate Llama to the more elaborate Paper Bag Star, the Crayola site has tons of creative ideas (yes, they do promote their products).
mokc_draw-pigeon_v1.pdfJoin Mo Willems every weekday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live Lunch Doodle! You can see the first episode here and follow along using the activity page.
Join Deb's Virtual Art School or just drop in for the 2 p.m. ET sessions. (Previous classes can be found on the FB page.)
The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop in Washington, DC, is producing simple videos throughout the shutdown. This one features Something Good by Robert Munsch, and explains how we can create flags to represent ourselves.
playdough recipe.pdfFollowing a recipe allows students to practice reading, measuring and organization. This one is for Mrs. Mastro's favorite playdough recipe!
Art you can (virtually) visit! Take a trip through time with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's interactive webpage:
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