4th Grade Roy Lichtenstein Self Portraits
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
4th Grade Roy Lichtenstein self portraits
Friday, May 2, 2025
Kindergarten Jasper John's alphabet collages
Kindergarten Jasper John's alphabet collages
I found this great idea from Cassie Stephens art blog. You can find the original post here cassiestephens.blogspot. I always like to include artists so we discussed the art of Jasper Johns and viewed his alphabet collages.
I provided each student with a 12" x 18" multi media paper with 28 boxes copied onto them. They used rubbing plates and neon construction paper crayons to create textures into each box. Lastly, they used neon tempera cakes to paint over each box. I had to really rush my kindergarteners so they could put the letters on the art during their next art class. If you don't have rubbing plates you can use cardboard squares and draw designs on them with glue. Cassie shows you how to make them on her blog.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Matisse paper sculptures
Henri Matisse Paper Sculptures
I found this idea on the blog https://www.limerickeducatetogether.com/third-class-artists/ and revised it a bit.
Pete the Cat kindergarten art lesson
Pete the Cat kindergarten color mixing lesson
The "Pete the Cat" book series are great books for early childhood readers and the illustrations are bright and engaging. I was looking for a new way to introduce coloring mixing and came up with the idea of "Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes" by Eric Litwin, James Dean and Kimberly Dean. I found clip art of tennis shoes and copied them onto multimedia art paper (make sure you have two shoes going in the opposite direction). We used tempera paint to mix the primary colors into secondary colors.
On the next art class I provided blue 12" x 18" construction paper, patterns for the head and body, glue, scissors and construction paper crayons to complete the drawing.