“Choice Project”

(Personal Choice)

• For this project, students will choose what they would like to create.  

• Some themes or project ideas to think of are listed below. You do not have to choose one of these ideas from below. You can create your very own project from your ideas and creativity (imagination).

• Collage - basically cutting and gluing things together to create a new artwork.

• Self-portrait - picture of self

• Portrait - picture of someone else.

• Landscape - picture of land.

• Abstract - picture created with lines, shapes, and colors.

• changing a realistic picture to an abstract picture - make the picture recognizable but change it so it's abstract and not realistic looking.

• Letter Art - A picture made from letters. The can overlap each other.

• Still-Life - A picture of objects that cannot move on their own and are small enough to fit on a table.

• Weaving Project - similar to our Navajo Weaving Project; a project made from weaving paper or other materials together.

• Observation Drawing - Drawing and creating a picture form something you are looking at. The Play Station controller and the bunny are examples of observation drawings. They are included in the example pictures below.

• Pop Art - a picture that repeats shapes, uses patterns, and typically uses bright colors.

• Choice-Based Art promotes the importance of giving students choice over their artwork to help make the process and subject personal to the young artist. It also allows students to grow at their own pace and helps them build on their previous knowledge of the materials they are using by giving them the opportunity to respond to their own ideas and creative process. 

• They can use any type of art mediums or art tools to create their artwork (paint, watercolors, glue, scissors, pencils, markers, crayons, oil crayons, sidewalk chalk, and etc.) the young artists may also use multiple art tools to create their project.

• They can make their artwork as a Collage or Drawing or Folding Surprise Art or a Painting or a Mask or a Landscape (picture of land) or a Robot from recycled materials or a Creative Self-Portrait or their Favorite Character or artwork made from nature or a completely Abstract Picture made from lines, shapes, and colors.  these are just some examples of what they can create.

• The young artists can use their creativity and imagination  to create their artwork. If a little help is needed, they may use videos, pictures, or books to help them create their artwork.

Below are some examples of choice-projects that students have created before.