At Home Art Projects
2021-22
Welcome to At Home Art! Welcome!
Kindergarten 1st grade
Still Life Drawing
1. Select 3-4 objects from your home to draw. ( Items may be from your kitchen, your toys or items you like)
2. Arrange the objects so that some objects are in front of another, some objects touch each other, some objects overlap each other. (What not to do- line the object in a straight row)
3. Sit back and observe your still life. What is the tallest object? what is the widest object? What object is in the front? What is in the back?
4. Using a piece of blank , white, printer paper and a pencil (not color pencil) Draw what you see. Begin with drawing the outline of the objects. Draw lightly so that you can erase. Look back and forth from the object to your paper, as you translate what you see to what you are drawing.
5. Once you have the big picture outlines of your drawing on paper, you can begin to add details, shading and patterns,
6. Add color with whatever you have at home. (color pencils, crayons or paints)
7. Print your name, grade and class as you do in art class.
8. Bring the drawings to school when you return and they will be shared with Ms. Patty
Pre K
Drawing Project (copy paper crayons, pencil, markers)
Pick one of your favorite stuffed animals and sit it on a table in front of you.
Using a pencil, marker or crayons, draw a picture of your animal using the shapes you see in your animal.
Be sure to color it in with whatever materials you may have.
In your picture, make up a place where your animal is ( Are they outside or inside?) and draw the world around your animal.
Bring your completed picture back to school to share with our class
Pre School
Spring Flower project (copy paper crayons or markers)
Parent cut 3 circles small, medium and large on one pc of paper
Color in the three circles to be part of a flower
Loop tape or glue the three shapes together (large to smallest) to make a flower
Montessori Kindergarten
Bunny Portraits
Draw a portrait of a bunny in clothing. Follow this step by step instruction, if you like, to start and then dress your bunny any way you like. Use patterns we have already learned. Can you find the patterns in these pictures?
Google the art of Rachel Convers and Beatrix Potter
Pre- K (Crayons and paper)
Art has been a way to communicate for thousands of years. It transcends all language barriers and world borders. Make some traced hand art for your Parents, Grandparents and Loved Ones!
How can you brighten another person’s day with Art? Trace your hand and make a sunny new day with rainbows and clouds and the things you love..
Pre- School and Montessori 3-4’s Paper bag puppets (crayons, color paper (if you have it) copy paper)
The earliest puppets probably originated in Egypt, where ivory and clay articulated puppets have been discovered in tombs. Puppets are mentioned in writing as early as 422 B.C.E. Puppets can be made from almost anything, an old sock, a craft stick, paper bags.
Have fun creating puppets with older siblings and have a puppet show! Make up a story together that involves all your characters! I sent home a paper bag last week.
Pre School and Montessori 3-4's
Millie’s Marvelous Hat by Satoshi Kitamura. (Please tune in to the link below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjBWAyMpmfk
Step one: Take a piece of card around 3 inches in depth and long enough to wind around your child’s head. Fit it in place, check it for comfort and fasten the ends together with staples or sticky tape. You can of course use two smaller pieces of card to make your headband if you don’t have a very long piece.
Step two: provide your child with lots of interesting materials to decorate their marvelous hat:
:: tissue paper :: colored paper and card :: stickers :: feathers :: buttons :: glitter :: pens :: pencils :: crayons :: ribbon, whatever you may have.
Step three: invite your child to imagine a most marvellous hat and style it however they like
Step four: parade! Wear your hat around the house, or better still head out for a walk wearing your marvellous creation. Just as in the book, watch the marvellousness spread and spot how all the people you pass smile and admire your wonderful creation!
My Color is Rainbow Pre-K
Please listen to the following story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZFtOQevF1Q
A bit of science....A rainbow is an arc of color in the sky that can be seen when the sun shines through falling rain. ... A rainbow is created when white light is bent (refracted) while entering a droplet of water, split into separate colors, and reflected back. A rainbow is actually round like a circle.
Rainbow Being
Cut a white paper plate in half to make a rainbow character, or use a half circle of any white kind.
Color the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet). Or if you have construction paper cut little pieces and glue them on.
Give your rainbow a face and make him/her some cool shoes!
Color a picture of a place where he/she may live and place your rainbow in the scene. Is it a rainy day?
Montessori Kindergarten Nature Journals
Here’s What You’ll Need!
A recycled paper bag
Sheets of copy paper
Sandwich bag or paper bag to collect on a walk outdoors
Hole puncher
Twine (or whatever you have)
Project: When it is not raining, or put on a raincoat and go.
Go outside with a bag and collect things from nature that you find interesting to draw
Cut a paper bag the same size as copy paper (2pcs.). You can make it any size you want with the paper the same size.
Draw pictures of your collected items on each page with crayons, pencils (no markers).
Write words to describe your collected item. What color? Shape?
Use one of your pages to make a drawing observing nature outdoors.
Collect your drawings between the paper bag pages and bind together by punching holes and use twine or yarn, or simply staple.
Decorate the cover
If you have thicker paper than copy paper, you can use that and paint.
Pre School & 3-4 Montessori
Drawing a Circle - Ladybugs
Sing along Ladybug Song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjhSgMqsAfM
According to European folklore, ladybugs symbolize good luck. Many years ago aphids invaded farmers' grapevines. When the farmers prayed for help to the Virgin Mary, legend tells us that swarms of little red beetles appeared. They proceeded to eat the aphids and save the crops.
If you can draw a circle, you can draw a ladybug! Practice drawing lots of circles on a sheet of paper and turn them all into ladybugs! Make a picture around them.
PreK Butterfly Life Cycle
Sequencing, Science, Art , Fold Out Book
Fold a piece of copy paper in half horizontally
Fold it again horizontally
Fold it again horizontally. You should have 8 spaces.
Fold over again horizontally in half so you have 4 spaces
In the first space on the left, draw a leaf with eggs
In the second space draw a caterpillar on a leaf.
In the third space draw a Chrysalis hanging from a branch
In the fourth space draw a butter fly with designs on both wings the same (symmetry) Use any colors and patterns you like.
Make lots of butterflies and hang them around your house!
Montessori Kinders
Texture: What does it feel like?
Use of texture in art can convey a variety of messages and emotions. Is an object soft as cotton or hard as a rock. Rough or smooth?
Go for a walk outside or inside and collect various small flat objects such as leaves string, a paperclip, a piece of fabric. (nothing with sharp edges). Glue your objects to a piece of cardboard. With one sheet of aluminum foil cover your objects, fold the excess foil to the back and secure the back with tape. Rub over your objects gently with your fingers to show the texture.
Optional: If you have black (or dark color) tempera paint, paint over the whole composition, let it dry and then very gently wipe the paint off with a dry paper towel and let the paint stay in the grooves. Gently!!
PreK
African Necklaces
African jewelry is seldom just ornamental; religion, rituals and ceremonies play a large part. Found objects are often included and can carry personal and symbolic meanings for the wearer.
Jewelry is worn by men, women and children, in some cases from a very early age and may be replaced at a certain age or status event like puberty, reaching manhood or marriage.
African jewelry has customarily been created from organic materials like hide, porcupine quill, bone, animal teeth, animal hair, seeds, nuts, husks, sea and land shells, egg shell, wood, ivory and carved stone.
Cut a circle out of a paper plate, or you can just use a plain piece of paper. Cut an opening.
Draw or paint patterns around your necklace.
See if you can find things to attach to your necklace
Pre School & Montessori 3-4's
Banners and Shapes
Make a colorful banner using crayons, markers or whatever supplies you have at home. (Markers and String)
Try drawing shapes on upside down triangles (any size you like) and string them together to make a banner to hang in the window or anywhere you like. You can also practice letters (your name) and numbers or have a Spring theme.
Kindergarten/First grade
African Masks - Symmetry
African mask are generally made to be used. Masks usually have a spiritual meaning or connection. The artists who create mask are given a special status. The mask making skill and knowledge of the spiritual meanings held by masks are passed down from father to son.
Symmetry is when two parts of a whole are exactly identical. Something is symmetrical if you can draw a line down it and each side looks the same. Can you see the symmetry in the masks below? If you were to draw an imaginary line down the center, both sides would be the same. Our faces are symmetrical. Can you think of anything else that may be symmetrical in nature? (hint: it flies and often has beautiful colors)
Masks are often a combination of human and animal.
Project: Draw a symmetrical mask that is the same on both sides of the face. If you draw an eye a certain way on one side, draw it the same way on the other side. You can add animal features. Add color to your mask. You can cut it out and hold it up to your face or glue it on construction paper
Another variation is to cut out a mask shape and then cut out and paste shapes to create eyes, nose, mouth, ears, etc.
PreSchool and
Montessori Kinders
Make your dream house! Hear the story, The Big Orange Splot, by Daniel Pinkwater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRL8d_6FEHw
Draw a blank house shape. Use the template above, or make your own shape.
What would your dream house look like? Colors? Windows, Door, Chimney. Add to the blank shape with color and cut paper, fabric or anything you want to add.
Send me pictures of your dream house!
Montessori Kindergarten
Combo Animals
Surrealistic Art
Features of Surrealistic Art
Dream-like scenes and symbolic images.
Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions.
Bizarre assemblages of ordinary objects.
Automatism and a spirit of spontaneity.
Games and techniques to create random effects.
Personal iconography.
Visual puns.
Distorted figures and biomorphic shapes.
Rene Magritte
Find pictures of any two animals and combine them in a drawing to make a new animal. give your new animal a name. And/or, you can cut out pictures of animals and combine them.
Hand Fans
The earliest visual depiction of fans in Japan dates back to the 6th century CE, with burial tomb paintings showed drawings of fans. The folding fan was invented in Japan, with date ranging from the 6th to 9th centuries. It was a court fan called the Akomeogi.
The folding hand fan is recognized as being invented in Japan or China with both countries holding legends of its creation. In Japan the fan is thought to be modeled after the folding wings of a bat, while the Chinese believe the sight of a woman fanning her face mask at a festival led to the tool's creation.
You can make a hand fan in several ways. An easy way is to fold a simple paper plate in half.
To make a simple fan:
Fold a paper plate in half (or heavy paper) and glue (or staple) it together (shiny side in).
Paint light colors (no black) on the entire surface of both sides of the fan and let it dry. If you don't have paint, use markers.
Make trees or pictures from the natural environment with a black sharpie or black marker on top of the dried color. The fold should be on the bottom
You can (optional) cut a small slit in the fold of the fan in the middle and insert/glue a craft stick.
Kindergarten/First grade Beetles and Bugs
Please send one picture of your favorite project for the art show!
Drawing and Painting or coloring
Kinder video 5:4.MOV
After looking at pictures of bugs, draw a giant bug using a combination of shapes. What shapes do you see in the pictures of bugs? Combine them to make your own bug. Remember for drawing, simple shapes make pictures. Your bug should be giant, taking up the whole page. Choose any colors you like! Create patterns for your bug. You can use symmetry that you learned in the mask lesson. Have fun!
PreK Unicorns Portraits!
Unicorn, mythological animal resembling a horse or a kid with a single horn on its forehead. The unicorn appeared in early Mesopotamian artworks, and it also was referred to in the ancient myths of India and China.
Having barely survived five hundred years of war and revolution, the Unicorn Tapestries (1495-1505) Unow hang safely on the walls of the Met Cloisters, the medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
prek 5-4.MOV
Here is a simple guide to making a Unicorn portrait. It is only a guide and doesn't have to be used. Draw a unicorn using any materials you have and choose whatever colors you like for the unicorn and the background. Please send one picture of your favorite project for the art show!
Preschool & Montessori 3-4's Butterflies!
Please send one picture of your favorite project for the art show!
Seeing that we may have more toilet paper rolls than usual these days, I thought these sweet butterflies would be fun to make. These can be painted or colored. Wings can be painted and/ or color paper added. Whatever you have in your supplies can be used.
Paint the tube and make eyes. If you don't have a tube use a craft stick or a long oval shape.
Make the wings by tracing your child's left and right (closed finger) hands, or cutting out heart shapes. or draw wings and cut out. Decorate the wings with what ever you have.
Make antennae using pipe cleaners or cut paper.
Preschool 5-4.MOVMontessori Kindergarten Outer Space!
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night
The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it describes the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an ideal village.
Kinder 5-11.MOVHave you ever wondered what it would be like to cruise around in outer space with your own space ship? Let's create a picture of outer space with planets on a black piece of construction paper. If you can draw a circle, you can draw a planet. Below is a picture of the planets in our Milky Way solar system.
On a white piece of paper you can draw small and larger circles. You may have trace a container in your house, like a small jar or a yogurt cup to create your planets. You can make up your own planets, using any colors you like.
Cut your planets out and paste them to the black paper. If you have a white crayon, you can make many small stars on your paper that are far far away.
Now!!! For your space ship!
You will need an empty toilet paper tube and some cardboard
Have mom or dad cut a hole in your paper tube as pictured below
Cut the one piece body of the space shuttle as pictured
Glue the tube to the space shuttle
Paint your space shuttle
Landscape
Farm, by American Artist Grant Wood
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features. ... Landscape can be as varied as farmland, a landscape park or wilderness.
Landscape pictures have a HORIZON LINE. This is where the sky meets the ground in a picture. Can you find the HORIZON line in the painting above? It isn't a straight line. It is where the meeting of the sky and ground form a line.
You can make your own landscape!
Draw curved lines across your paper to show levels of the land. You can make hills!
Stop where you want your sky to be (HORIZON LINE)
You can color in your levels of land any way you like.
Have fun!! and do send me a picture!
PreK 5-11.MOV
Pre School and Montessori 3-4's
Artful Owls !
Triangles and Circles
Owls are nocturnal creatures, which means they are seen at night. There are over 200 types of owls. They have amazing bright, large eyes. An owl can turn it's head all the way around to the other side to see other animals.
Can you draw a TRIANGLE? Can you draw a CIRCLE? You can make an owl!
Open shut Open shut Cut cut cut! Cut out some triangles and circles with a grown-up to make a colorful owl. Paste your shapes on a dark color paper.
Preschool 5-11.MOVMontessori Kindergarten
Natural work of Art: Peacocks
Kinder 5-18 Castify.mp4
"Peacock" is commonly used as the name for a peafowl of the pheasant family. But in fact "peacock" is the name for the colorfully plumaged male peafowl only. The females are called peahens, they are smaller and grey or brown in color.
The name of a baby peafowl is a peachick.
Peacocks are best known for their amazing eye-spotted tail feathers or plumage. During a display ceremony the peacock will stand its tail feathers up to form a fan that stretches out nearly 2 m in length.
This colorful display is believed to be a way to attract females for mating purposes, and secondly to make the peacock look bigger and intimidating if he feels threatened by predators.
You can draw a peacock with any materials you may have. Try light blue construction paper if you have it. Here is a step by step drawing to start with, or you can make up your own. Have fun!
PreK
Sea Turtles - Shape Patterns
prek 5-18 castify.mp4
Notice how this turtle is different than a land turtle
Notice the patterns. What do you see that repeats?
You will need a white sheet of paper and a fine point sharpie, if you have one, and some watercolor.
Draw 5 ovals on your paper. These will be your turtles.
Continue with the heads on one side of your ovals
Add front and back flippers and a tail
Give your turtle some eyes
Draw different repeating patterns on each of your turtles.
Color your repeating patterns with crayons in any colors you like
Water color (very lightly) over your turtles. Keep your colors light so your turtles don't get hidden. The crayons will resist the water color and show through
Tortoise
Sea Turtle
Box Turtle
Preschool 5-18.MOVPreSchool & Montessori 3-4's
Hooray For Fish !!
Please watch the video below:
Can you draw a circle or an oval? Can you draw a triangle? You can make your own fish!
You will need a sheet of white paper
Draw some ovals and circles for fish
Add a triangle to the ovals and circles for a tail
Remembering the story, add other shapes to your fish to make each your own creation!
Don't forget fins, eyes, mouth, scales
Color your fish and the water.
Fish Magic, Paul Klee
PreK
Leaf Pictures
PreK 5-24.webm
We have been learning all year that you can make a picture by putting shapes together. Now we can try to make pictures from leaf shapes!
Go outside and collect some different types of leaves
Arrange your leaves on a sheet of paper to create an animal
Draw a picture of where this animal might live
Glue your leaves on the paper within your picture
Montessori Kindergarten
Invent a Robot
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to create your own robot! What would the robot do for you to make your life easier! Would it to chores? Would it do your homework? Help mom?
Draw a picture of your own mechanical robot. It should have wheels and gears, buttons and wires perhaps!
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Pre School and Montessori Pre School
Race Cars On the Move!
Most objects that we use every day are designed by artists in the beginning. From your pencil to the chair you are sitting in, an artist had a hand in the design. Today you will be a car designer!
Preschool 5-25.webm
Preschool and Montessori Preschool
Flower Garden
Wouldn't it be fun to design your own flower garden? Here is a garden you can create using your fingers and a little paint.
Draw some straight lines
Dip ONE finger in purple and/or pink blue paint
Tap your finger on either side of the line to make flowers
Use green paint to make the leaves
You can add other kinds of flowers to your picture using a fork and paint
I have had so much fun providing projects for the last few months! I hope you and your parents have enjoyed the projects! I look forward to seeing you at your closing ceremony. I hope you have a wonderful summer and I am looking forward to seeing you in September!
Be happy, Have fun and be safe!
PreK
Party Banners Celebrating You!
I will see you on Zoom at 9:15AM on Tuesday, June 2nd
There is a template attached to be used with any kind of paper you have. Copy paper is fine. You can also use construction paper as a backing if you like. Preparation for this project would be convenient to have ready for Tuesday, June 2. Supplies: Copy paper or construction paper, scissors, markers or crayons, tape/glue and string.
It has been such a pleasure teaching your children both in and outside school. I look forward to seeing you at your closing ceremony and then in September when we can all be together again. Have a wonderful summer!!
Directions are as follows:
Print out a triangle template for each letter of your child's name (and one for an optional picture).
Cut out the triangles, or have your child cut them out with your supervision.
Either you, or your child can write the letters of their name, one per each triangle
Your child can decorate each letter in their own way, tracing over the letters and adding decorative elements. You can try making things that start with the letters of the alphabet used.
After the letters are complete you can attach the letters in order on a piece of string/ribbon/yarn or whatever you may have. If you would like to back the letter triangles with construction paper, that is an option. You can also attach the letters to each other if you do not have some string.
Fold the tabs on the triangles over the string and tape or glue.
Have fun!
Montessori Kindergarten
Kindergarten Memories
It was a very interesting year! Please draw pictures of your favorite memories from Kindergarten. I enjoyed teaching art to everyone! I look forward to attending your closing ceremony on June 4th! I hope you have a wonderful summer and I look forward to seeing you in September! Have fun!!
My teacher
What was your favorite activity?
What is the best thing you learned how to do?
Draw a self portrait