Folk art houses 1st grade art lesson

 Folk Art houses

Here is a great lesson for a sub created by Cassie Stephens. When I was out for two weeks with laryngitis I needed to come up with  a lesson that wasn't boring for the kids but easy for a sub to teach. Thanks to Cassie's video on line, she taught the lesson for the sub. Here is the link to her lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=469&v=CnQuadGUOR4

Students loved learning how to make 3-D houses. They first drew some with pencils and then when they got the hang of it they drew the rest with sharpies, colored them in with neon oil pastels and then painted over the houses with watercolors. 

This is one of the kids favorite lessons!

This is my demonstration video.

1st grade Heather Galler folk art landscapes and pattern lesson

Students learned about the folk  and contemporary artist Heather Galler. I found this idea on http://paintedpaperintheartroom.blogspot.com, Heather Galler has a great slide show on You tube. They loved her bright colors and the music that was set to the slide show. We discussed how she used patterns in her paintings and the difference between landscapes, portraits and still life's. We looked around the room and on our friends clothes for patterns as well as viewing patterns in nature.
We then set to work! We drew a ground line and then proceeded to take a ruler and divide our land into sections. On each section we drew patterns. The next step was to draw buildings, trees, bushes etc.

                                        

We then outlined everything in a fine tip permanent marker and colored the buildings and patterns with construction paper crayons. 

                                             

                                                                                                                    

               

When everything was colored we painted watercolors over the whole thing. This lesson took about three, 50 minute class periods. 

                                        

                                  

                                        

                                            

I believe this was one of their favorite lessons!

                                                 

They are always so proud of their work! Thanks Heather Galler for the inspiration!