Using Shapes to Draw a Penguin with Kinders

 First we observe and understand the basic elements of the subject, then we use our imagination to make our own unique artistic creation! 

Kinder Works of Art 2017-18

What did we do this year in Art?

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

Kinder Art Work 2016 17

Kinders are fearless artists and love to explore and create.
Here is an overview of the projects we did this year enjoy:

What did we do this year in Art?

Innovations in Art

Our art room theme for 2016-17 

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

Painted paper-process painting with sponges, caps and corks- Fine motor skills, hands on experience

Kinder Cats-Artists create their own cat using pre cut shapes, crayons and color pencils.

Name Game-Line direction, following series of stop and go directions, how to use a paint brush, watercolor blending, skill building.

School Project- Heart drawing and watercolor project for online sales

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.

Rainbow City- artists created a rainbow background sky and added 6 building/rectangles using the color wheel as a guide. Details drawn with crayons and color pencils

Red White &Robot- line direction painting, build a robot with 6 rectangular shapes glue to background, add face/ details with crayon, collage and or stickers.   

Art History connection: Jasper John flag series, pop art, Bearden

Red White and Blue Robots

Connecting to classroom theme, this fun project allowed for lots of personal creative expression.

What a Square Pumpkin?

A visit with Kinder

Sometimes our youngest artists need just a little extra time to feel comfortable with a new teacher that is why this year I decided to visit the Kinder classes in their home rooms before they signed up to journey to  the art studio. I was able to introduce myself, talk just a little bit about art, show the print of Starry Nights and introduce our first element of art the line (a dot that went for a walk) We found lines everywhere and drew them in the air with our fingers. In the end they made pasta pictures with plates of cooked lines (spaghetti) and they could even eat their art if they wanted to! What a great way to start a New Art Year!

Rainbow Robots

Multiple skills and techniques-Background exploration of color using liquid watercolors and wet on wet application. Robot form created from pre-cut squares and rectangles-parts Head, Body, 2 arms 2 legs. Details added with additional shapes, crayons and color pencil. Allows for a lot of personal creativity within a structured format. Stickers and shiny collage material are available as a last step.

Spring After School Class Alien Invasion grades k-3rd

Create your own Alien. The After school program was open to grades K-3. Student designed and created their own alien creature, using paint, makers, collage and lots of hands on imagination

November December 2011 Red Rectangular Robots

This collage project reinforces color and shape recognition while building on spacial relationships; top, middle and bottom. Perfect for Kindergarten and 1st grade students, can be expanded to provide more of challenge older students. (These art pieces were created by Kinders).

Part I: Pre cut red rectangles and squares, students create a basic "human" robot form. One head at the top, body in the middle, two arms out of the sides of the body (not the head) two legs located below the main body.

Part II: Using color pencils, stickers and additonal colors students add addtional details to their robots. What does your creation do, does it have special powers or skills. If time permits students can make a pet for their art robot.

Kindergarten shapes to trace

Part one select two shapes to trace creating an ABAB pattern.

Part two, select two colors and color in the shapes in an ABAB pattern.

Plate Face

Wow!
What better way to start drawing a person than to start at the top with the face. These paper plate faces are silly expressive and very colorful especially when kooky hair is added.

This is ME!

This intro to the arts is wonderful warm-up for students on a year long journey to draw a human form.

November-December 2006

Mosaics and Masks

Kindergarten students designed mosaic panels using squares of construction paper and gift wrap to create patterns.

They also looked at tribal masks for design inspiration.