Dale Chihuly Flowers

 

 

 

Dale Chihuly

Flower/Jelly Fish

I LOVE Dale Chihuly! He is my FAVORITE ARTIST!! Maybe because his works are amazing or I always wanted to try glass making...I dunno but the kid love him! They will remember his name real quickly especially if you show them a picture of him. He looks like a pirate they say. lol. Well the month of January I focus on FORM. Now I major in sculpture and wanted to find something difficult but fun. So our first project was to create flowery abstract shape sculpture out of my favorite....coffee filters. I swear I use this material in everything...best and cheap thing to use! Well you might have seen this project somewhere but I did this using coffee filters and liquid water colors. This is the best because I filled cuts up with different colors and I had the kids use paint brushed and tie dye their coffee filters. Now I picked four colors so we didn't get out of hand and this is a big STRESS when you are filling cup up. STRESS: leave the brushes outside of the cups not in...cant tell you how many spills I had because the brush is heavier than the cup. Also the brush needs to be near the cup. Also serperate the color in corner of the table was easy....great way of not mixing the color brushes and it would be a mess cause they wouldn't be able to remember what brush they got it from blaah blaaah....just separate the color is all I can say. Also I had them use a paper plate under the coffee filter so they can travel around the table for different colors and it didn't get on the floor. Once they were done I took the coffee filter and rapped it around a foam cup with a rubber band. They sat over night and they form that really great shape. Also in these projects they tell you to spray corn starch...fist it stinks...so I tried it without it and believe it or not they actually stayed in the flowery position without corn starch so no I didn't not use it. After they dried I made a glitter paper and glued the flowers on the paper. Came out great and great wall hangers!

Material:

• Coffee Filters
• Paper Plates
• Multi Color Liquid Water Color Paints
• Paint Brushes

100th Day 100 years old

100th Day of School!!

Pre K

100th Day of School is coming up and what is more fun to kids than having them make self portrait of themselves....but 100 years old!!!! I talked to them about what a self portrait is. I had pre cut shapes for the body and the head.

Material:

• White circle construction paper (Head)
• Body (cone shape)
• Skin color paper
• Cotton balls
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Markers

First thing we did was glue the body onto the paper. I had boy have blue background and green bodies and the girls had purple background and pink bodies. I think next time I will have a couple colors...make it more colorful. Once the body is on they glued on the head on. Once the head is on they where given skin color scrape paper. I went around or they can do it but cover the circle head in glue then rip peices of the paper and glue it on. This give the face a wrinkly effect. After the skin was put on I had them put the google eyes then hair. Once they have them on they could decorate themselves with eye brows, eye lashes, decorate their outfit etc.

It is fun when you talk to them about what it mean to get old. First thing I ask is what happens when you get old.....wrinkly skin, white hair, die (which I did not expect but again kids will surprise you!)

But a real fun project to do with the kids and it take about 20-30 minutes! EASY PEASEY!

January Bulletin Board Snow Suits

January Bulletin Board

 

This was so cute I saw on Pinterest and did a little bit of a change. I needed something on my bullentin board and I love to just have the kids up there or something that the kids made. So I made a template of a snow suit, I drew one snow suite on paper and made copies. I then had the kids color it in, with markers or crayons. After that they could glue on jewels and cotton balls (look of snow). I then got small coffee filters, on Pinterest they used cupcake rappers, I am cheap so coffee filters work just as good! I glued them on with their pictures and BAM! They are much cuter in person. I recommend when you get your copies of the snow suit to get it on thicker paper, I did this the first time on regular paper and the head is heavy so it is more supportive with thicker paper! Also the pictures....I actually have them printed from my computer on regular paper then I lamenant the pictures with contact paper. It make it looks like picture paper and you save some mula!!! :)

Paper Plate Snow Globes

 

Paper Plate Snow Globe

Pre K

 

 

It snowing!!! Kids love snow and man do they love snowmen. Funny thing is some dont know what a snow globe is. Most do and they can name you different kids of ones but you will get some that have no idea what you are talking about. They are fun to see when you show them an actual snow globe!

 

First start off with a plate....cut out a blue circle from construction paper that will be your background for the snowman. Then I cut out three white circles..one large...one medium...one small. This is great because when you tell the students to start off with the largest then work your way up this will let you evaluate the students with how they can tell sizes.

I got out black and orange markers. I had them make the eyes, nose, mouth, buttons, and arms. Then with white crayon or you can use tempera white paint and make snow. I then cut out another plate and put for the clear glass look plastic wrap which you can find at the dollar store. I glued the plates together and made a bottom to them to make it look like a snow globe. Kids looOOooved it! They are still bugging me to take them home while I have them hung up...

Crazy Penguins

 

 

Crazy Penguins

Pre K

 

Winter is coming!!! I started this project in January...they are learning about the seasons and now that it is winter and snow is a coming what animal is good to start off with but cute little crazy penguins! The kids loooOooOove these animals and the girls think they are soooo cute! lol funny bunnies they are.

First thing I did was I showed them what they are making. It is really good to have a sample to show. I always do because these kids and the age they are very visual. Now again I prepare this the day before. You will need to have the stuff pre cut or if you want to spend more time and have them cut it out be prepared that it will take time.

Material:

1. Blue Construction paper
2. Black construction paper cut in a U shape for the body
3. White construction paper cut in a smaller U shape for the belly
4. White construction paper cut in large circles for eyes
5. Black construction paper cut in small circles for pupils (they love that word)
6. Orange construction paper for the beak
7.  Any color construction paper for the ear muffs
8. Black construction paper for the rod of the muffs

So I started off with showing picture of penguins so they get what color they are and talk about where they live...beach or artic? You will be surprised how many really know! Once we talk about that I have them glue the body together first, then the belly, then the eyes, pupils, beak, and then ear muffs.

Once the body is done now we had snow. Now I got some white tempra paint and added some glitter to give a little texture. I love art so much that I truly believe a real artist never have clean hands so instead of paint brushed I told them to use their fingers and add snow. Now STRESS  to them that snow falls from the sky so make sure they add snow at the top, I dunno why but they don't want to make snow at the top of the penguins. Also STRESS to them to make dots...snow is not zig zag lines...you know while they use their hands they wanna make a mess....no! lol. TIP: You might have a kids that has a tactil problem and don't want to get their hands dirty so I then allow them to use paint brushes. You might just get that! Once they are done the snow...BAM! You got your crazy Penguins!