Kandinsky Trees
I am on shapes. Now I did Mondrian for squares and rectangles no circles is our next art! So I talked a little about Kandinsky...now remember Pre K has a very short attention spand so please pick out some interesting but important facts.
This project I still finished up primary colors and working on secondary colors. So my idea was to put that in there. So I traced circles on the color paper. I had three large circles (Primary colors) then three medium circles (Primary colors) and three small circles (Secondary colors) I had them cut the circles out and then they glued the three large circles on the stump (I had them pre cut). Then they put the medium circles on...they need help on this make sure that they will match up to mixing into the secondary color when you put the small circles on. Hard to explain but look at the picture.
Once they glued on the cirlces it looked boring still so I added what every art teacher dreads....glitter! The picture below was a test that I think came in handy. They are still working on how to work with the glue bottle so I had them practice on paper on how to use the glue bottle to make swiggle lines. Once the glue is on they learned how to glitter it up. Once we finished the test we started on making the wind in our picture with the glue and glitter, it came out great. STRESS to them that you do not want to see blobs...show them an example when you are doing the test paper...they will blob. You need to STRESS to them to move the bottle around and not in one place!
The grass area I had them use a glue stick all over the bottom of the line and then sprinkle color paper on. Make sure they push on the paper. Then BAM you got yourself some trees!!
Okay so I ran into a bunch of cardboard boxes and I also teach creative play so why not mix art class Keith Haring to creative play. So what I did was with the boxes I made a subway train. Now this took forever and alot of work...so if you want to make it...they kids really really really really love it so it is worth it in the end. I taped the boxed together to create a long rectangle cube. Under the cardboard is PVC pipes. You have to use them to support the train up. Once you get the frame together you put the box over it and tape the crap out of it! I mean I used a WHOLE ROLL of DUCK TAPE!!! ALOT! Once I had that together I then had the kids paint the train. Please use Acrylic....TEMPRA IS BAD TO USE! It would peel off easy. I had the kids paint so they had fun doing that. Ofcourse I went over it just for some spots. Then once it all dried I brought it in the room and then with markers, crayons, oil pastel graffetti all over it. I told them they are artist in the subway and to make their own art work. I also taped black construction paper to the wall and some chalk to make wall designs. It was alot of fun and it lasted in my room for about a month and a half.
