Habitat to Home was our art room
theme for 2017-18
We explored a variety of
artistic processes, asked questions presented connections and made discoveries-
during the journey created some great art too!
Kindergarten Program overview
Objective for students: to experience a variety of mediums and
techniques used for creating art. Introduce art history text and the elements
of art. Develop fine motor skills and following simple directions
Kinder Cats-Artists
create their own cat using pre-cut shapes, crayons, embellishments and color
pencils.
This is Me!
- Artist self portrait
Name Game-Line
direction, following series of stop and go directions, how to use a paint
brush, watercolor blending, skill
building.
Snow Person- creating a background with sponge and circle stamps.
Collage elements to cut and apply with glue to a background in a specific
order- size (small, medium large) position, (top, middle, bottom) parts of the
face, adding details, building a collage. Building vocabulary and understanding of size, proportion. Where would a snowperson "live"? Observation/Imagination Supports
red, white and blue and weather/season units
Rainbow Robots- following a series of directions, build a robot with 6 rectangular
shapes glue to background, add face/ details with crayon, collage and or
stickers. Artists created a rainbow
background sky/ground. Vocabulary and
skill building
Georgia Flowers – Following a series of directions, tracing a pattern, drawing big,
students created large flower shapes, painted with tempera paint, cut out and
details added with oil pastels. Later name leaves were added, to identify the
artists.
Magic Snails-
Introduction to clay, following a series of directions artists blend 2 colors
of model magic to create a coil form and build a snail shape.
Art
History connection: Jasper John flag series, pop art, Bearden, Georgia O’Keeffe
