Paint by rectangles.
Masks
Mandalas made with CDs and yarn. * Ask high schools or businesses for their excess CDs (aka all the ads you get that'll get trashed anyway).
Whole School Project: everyone makes a sea creature. Used Apoxy Clay for texture.
Gesture drawing: humans are make of circles and ovals. Discuss where you bend. Look a at a wooden figure and self/volunteers. Kids from first grade and up can do this and enjoy it. *Good to revisit for time fillers. The image on the right is mine, but it was very comparable to the first graders who did the same project that day.
Baskets made with dixie cups and yarn: good for studying cultures.
Follow the leader drawings by 2nd graders.
Other ideas:
- Foil relief projects with cardboard, string, foil, and permanent markers.
- geometric and organic shapes: trace shapes and color each differently. Can lead into cartography.
- rubbings: leaves/ tile samples
- patterns: trace anything on a big circle
- bugs: connect wire (antennae, legs), CDs (3 for body), and cellophane for wings (get light covers from theatres)
- The 5 Basic elements of shape poster
- Book: Harold and the Purple Crayon - the character draw what he wants. Kids can do this too and make their own story. Talk about lines he uses: straight lines, curved lines, zigzags, too. Reread and look at the shapes.
- Giant tangram set (laminated poster board)
- catalogs for pictures (flowers/ fashion / seeds)
- ART from Many Hands (multicultural)
- Teaching American History with Art Masterpeices
- Art for Fun
- Teaching teh 3 R's -Ann Green Gilpert-combines dance and science
- Insectlopedia
- Decorative symbols and motifs
- the usborne book of art ideas
- tales alive: storytelling and art
- The private Eye: jewelers lop
- The Jazz ABC's
- The Dot (encourage to draw)
- Not a Box (imagination with shapes)
- Museum Trip
- Look Closer
- When Pigasso Met Mootese
- Magazine: Arts and activities
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