Last fall, at the AEM conference, I won some bleeding tissue paper and was searching for a fun, colorful art lesson and I found a really great one! (thanks to Pinterest) The 3rd graders will be making the balloon part by tracing out the shape of the balloon, putting water in small sections and then adding tissue paper on top. After the students add the tissue paper, they need to make sure that it's totally wet. They can also add water on top of the tissue paper, just in case. The next art time, they remove the tissue paper to reveal the color that has transferred to the paper. Then, they cut out their balloon and glue it onto a larger sheet of paper. Using a sharpie pen, they add pattern to their balloon, they also add the ropes and basket. 3rd graders are finally getting their hands on some clay and they are very excited about it! We are learning about Pablo Picasso and his Cubism Portraits. The 3rd graders will use white clay to make the profile of the face - the side view. Then they will color their white clay with markers. All you do is just dab crayola markers onto small pieces of clay and start to mix the colors into the clay. The students must have a forward facing eye, so they are showing 2 sides of the face, the profile and the front view. They must also add shapes and other facial features. This art lesson was a big hit last year so it's coming back! The students used just a sharpie pen, no pencil! That way the 3rd graders can get used to making mistakes and being okay with it. The sky's the limit when it comes to what their robot can look like. 2 heads, 6 arms, flying above a city, riding in a car, you name it - they can draw it. The only thing that their robot needs to have is cross-hatching. Cross-hatching is a shading technique, in which one set of lines crosses over (overlaps) another set to show value. 3rd Graders are making penguins inspired by the movie Happy Feet and by an art lesson that I saw on Pinterest. Students will be learning about the Northern Lights and create their own version using a watercolor wash. Then on a separate piece of paper they will be drawing their penguins. They will use Black, Grey and White Oil Pastels to blend the color together to show VALUE. When finished, students will cut out their penguin and glue them to the painted paper. When glued on, they will add 2 ovals underneath the feet to create shadows. I have included the handout that I give to the 3rd graders to help them break down drawing a penguin and how to draw value. We used oil pastels but this would work with chalk, colored pencils or crayons. I saw this lesson on Pinterest and thought it would be a fabulous and imaginative art lesson. Students will be able to create their own treehouse using a variety of mediums. The 3rd graders will learn how to create SPACE by using foreground, middleground and background. They will overlap the tree and leaves ontop of and behind the tree house to create layers. They will also create TEXTURE by using a sponge to paint the clouds and markers to draw the bark on trees. They can use string for a rope and broken Popsicle sticks for the ladder. Because of fall, we are creating some artwork to include leaves. Students will use tracers to draw the leaves, making sure that at least 2 leaves are overlapping. After tracing in pencil they will trace in sharpie marker. Their leaves will be painted in warm colors - red, orange and yellow. The background will be painted in cool colors - blue, green and purple. Last week, Becker was very lucky to have the artist, Judy Sell, come create a mosaic installation for the High School Commons. 20 students from the intermediate school helped create the mandala-like mosaics. Each school building will get the chance to participate in creating these mosaics and at the end of October the mosaics will be hung up on the High School commons columns. To the left is a photo of Judy Sell teaching the students about mosaics. September 15th is international dot day so the 3rd graders are creating artwork inspired by a lovely book called "The Dot." Each third grader is given a square piece of paper and then they trace a quarter of a circle in black crayon. Students draw abstract art by drawing shapes and lines in crayon and then paint inside the shapes and lines. When 4 papers are put together they create a full circle, as seen on the right. Below is a video of "The Dot" The school always looks so sad and lonely during the summer. There aren't any students and all of the artwork gets taken down. I thought that I should make something that gets left up all summer for all to see. I saw this tree on Mr. Picasso's Art Room Blog and I thought this would be just the perfect display to have during the summer. This display was really easy and turned out great! All I did was use construction paper to create the tree and scrapbook paper/card-stock to create the funky circle leaves. The art room window is one of the first windows walking to the main entrance so I thought decorating the window would also brighten up the school. I found this on the blog, Kids Artists, and made my own giant version. 3rd graders will be finishing up the year making some suns inspired by the Aztec Sun Stone. This art project is one of my favorites because they all turn out so beautiful! We will be learning about the Aztecs, a group of hunters that lived in Mexico hundreds of years ago. The Aztecs used a Sun Stone Calendar. This calendar was 12 feet tall and 4 feet wide, weighing 24 tons! First, students will draw their sun on a piece of paper using a pencil. Inside their sun they will draw different patterns. Once drawn, they will trace their sun onto a piece of Styrofoam. Then they will color a piece of paper with chalk pastel. 3rd graders will start the printmaking process, they will roll black ink onto their styrofoam sun and then stamp the sun onto the paper. All year the 3rd graders have been asking me, "When are we going to use clay?" and now we finally are! One of my very favorite artists is Wayne Thiebaud (pronounced T-bow). Wayne Thiebaud is known for his paintings of desserts. His desserts are plentiful in his paintings by showing many desserts in simple rows. Students will create, out of clay, their dessert of choice. Whether it be a cupcake, a slice of pie, an ice cream sundae or donuts! When they have finished creating their dessert they must add one detail like a cherry, sprinkles, a candle or whip cream. The next week, students will begin painting their dessert using tempera paint cakes. This art lesson is a great way to learn about an artist, a culture and self-portraits. Frida Kahlo is an artist from Mexico who was known for her self-portraits, a picture you draw of yourself. In Frida Kahlo's portraits there are some things that you notice right away like her unibrow, the animals that surround her and nature in the background. The 3rd graders will be drawing self-portraits similar to Frida Kahlo's. Their portraits need to have at least one animal, be a drawing of themselves and plants/flowers in the background. The students will be using oil pastel to color their entire paper and then use the black oil pastel to outline everything. This is one of my favorite lessons that the 3rd graders get to do! They are learning about Australia and the people from Australia, the Aborigines. Aborigines are people who are native to Australia which means they were the first to live in Australia. The students will draw at least 3 Australian Animals and then add pattern inside their animals. Students will then color in the pattern with oil pastel. The last step is painting the dots all around the animals. To do this, we will be using the eraser side of the pencil, dip the pencils in the paint and dot away! The 3rd graders newest project is all about Hot Air Balloons! I've always thought hot air balloons were the coolest, with all those colors and patterns they look so beautiful in the sky. For this lesson the 3rd grade will be learning how to draw hot air balloons. The 3rd grade will also be using knowledge that they've learned from past art projects. They will be decorating and coloring their balloons with shapes and lines like they did in The Dot. Drawing a smaller balloon in the distance and show space like when they drew trees in their warm/cool landscapes. And they will be drawing their baskets in 2-Dimensional Forms like their bowls from Gambia. When they finish coloring their bowls the students will cut them out and then sponge paint clouds onto a new blue piece of paper. Then the students will glue their balloons down and draw lines for the rope. The 3rd graders are looking at the country, The Gambia, a small country on the west coast in Africa. The 3rd graders are making their own version of the bowls by learning how to draw their bowls so they look 2-Dimensional by drawing them in a way that show the front of the bowl as well as the inside of the bowl. Once their bowl are drawn they can decorate them with pattern using Neutral Colors. A neutral color is a color that doesn't usually show up on the color wheel. Neutral colors or Earth Tones are usually browns and grays, colors you might see in rocks, sand, dirt and clay. Matryohska Dolls or Nesting Dolls are a set of Russian wooden dolls decreasing in size that can be placed inside of each other. The 3rd graders will be making 4 dolls of their own. Their dolls will be made out of paper, glued into an upright position and will be able to fit inside of each other. The nesting dolls they are making must look like they are apart of a set, like all sports players or all animals. They will color their dolls using crayons, colored pencils or markers. If the students finish early they will have the option of adding more dolls to their set, one bigger and one smaller doll. I will be entering Becker Intermediate students in an art contest created by the Celebrating Art website. I wish every student could have their artwork entered but there isn't enough time, so I will be selecting students who have been Artists Of The Week to be entered. I will upload a photo of their artwork and, if selected by the judges, their art will be published in a book that contains photos of all the art. If the student's art is published they will have the chance to also be a contest winner. The winners will receive a $25 check and a free copy of the art book! If you would like to enter in your own art on your own time (with the help of your parents!), click here, this link will take you right to the student registration page on the celebrating art website. |
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Gail Peroddy
I'm in my 6th year teaching art in Becker, MN. Time has really flown by! Wowza! Archives
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