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. 

On day two I provided copies of the alphabet for students to copy the letters onto their papers with the paint daubers. I was so surprised on how well they did! They were careful and really enjoyed this process! Yeah! Just remind them to not squeeze the bottles. 

Thanks Cassie for the idea! 

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. 

They didn't need to color his head and tail since we used blue paper! I know many art teachers don't like to use patterns in art but these were only ovals and rectangles for them to trace. 

Everyone did a great job! 

kindergarten ornament collage

 Kindergarten ornament collage

I found this idea on Pinterest. I just changed it a bit to fit the needs of my kindergarteners. You can see the original post here https://stranamasterov.ru/node/1126042

I provided my students with an ornament template on a 12" x 9" construction paper. We reviewed patterns in art and discussed the many possibilities of what we could draw on the circles. I have a craftsmanship poster posted in my room so they know they must use good coloring and cutting skills when creating their art. 

Students cut the ornaments out, glued them to a 12" x 18" piece of red construction paper, drew lines for the string, and added snowflakes with a white oil pastel. I think they did an amazing job!!! 

Kindergarten Line Monsters

 Kindergarten Line Monsters

I found this lesson here Elements of the Art room blog

My kindergarteners explored lines in art and in the classroom. Scratch Garden on YouTube has a great song for kids about lines that they love to sing along to. Just do a search and it comes up right away! 

On the first day, students drew lines on a 12" x 18" piece of multimedia paper with neon oil pastels. They then painted the entire thing with liquid watercolors. On day two, students cut ears at the top and added eyes, etc. for the face. I gave them scrap paper if they wanted to add hairbows etc. They absolutely loved this lesson. Thanks to Elements of the Art Room for the great idea! 

Wayne Thiebaud kindergarten birthday cake art lesson

 Kindergarten birthday cake drawing art lesson 

Sorry no photos for this lesson. I retired and the last month of school I did not save my class photos on this blog. But here is my video! 

        Here is the video I recorded for  virtual learning during COVID. 

We discussed the art of Wayne Thiebaud especially  his cake paintings. 

In kindergarten students are taught the 3-D shapes in their classrooms so this was perfect to tie in their general education curriculum. 

I did a step by step tutorial of how to draw the cake and then the kiddos could add their own touches. This was completed in May so my kindergartens had grown quite a bit in their skills. Students used crayons and a 12" x 9" piece of drawing paper for the lesson. 

I love how they all turned out so differently! 

kindergarten textured alphabet painting

Jasper Johns Inspired textured Alphabet lesson 

I found this great lesson from the talented art teacher Cassie Stephens. You can find her original lesson here 

https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-art-room-kindergarten-alphabet.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+CassieStephens+(Cassie+Stephens)

Here is a video of me teaching it. 

 I copied a grid onto 12" x 18" multi-media paper for each student on the copy machine.  Each paper contained 32 boxes. When the students copy they alphabet at the end of the lesson they will be allowed to add additional shapes to complete the boxes. 

We viewed many examples of Jasper Johns letters and alphabet paintings and then got straight to work. 

Students traced their grid with a neon oil pastel and then used rubbing plates to create textures in each box. 

After each box was completed they painted each box with watercolors to create an oil pastel resist. 

This was pre COVID and when the kids were allowed to have art in the art room. I started this lesson right before COVID hit so the kiddos didn't get to finish them. 

This year with my kindergarteners we used crayons to rub the textures in each box. I can now have one class come to the art room every day so the kiddos did the rubbings in their classrooms and when they came to the art room they added watercolors and instead of using paint daubers they used black paint sticks. The paint sticks worked better on the wet paper. 

Thanks Cassie for the great idea!