Chicka Chicka Boom Boom kindergarten art lesson

 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom kindergarten art lesson 

I got this great idea from Cassie Stephens. You can see her original post here Cassie Stephens Chicka Chicka boom boom

I just changed it to fit the needs of my classroom. You can watch my demonstration video below. 

Because I'm on a cart because of COVID I have to keep coming up with messy free art projects. Our kindergarten classrooms do not have sinks so it has really been a challenge coming up with projects. 

For this project I had my students use Black bingo daubers to draw letters all over a piece of 12" x 18" multi-media paper. After they drew their letters we then watched the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom video by Andre Penn on YouTube. It's a little over four minutes long. I also played another ABC video just to give the papers time to dry. They dry in about ten minutes. 

The next step was to take neon paint sticks and draw lines around all the letters. I stressed how important it was to not draw on top of the letters in case they weren't dry. In Cassie's art project they used water soluble markers to trace around the letters and then painted the letters with water to make them bleed. They look really cool but my teachers wouldn't appreciate the mess in their classrooms. Paint sticks have been a great alternative this year! 

Edvard Munch 1st grade art lesson

Edvard Munch 1st grade art lesson

This lesson is based on the famous painting "The Scream". 

                                                                 My demonstration video. 

I got this idea from the book "Get into 

Art! People" by Susie Brooks. I changed it a bit to fit the needs of my classroom. 

We discussed the painting "The Scream" noting the warm colors  and what we thought was going on in the painting. 

I explained to the children that they would have two choices. They could either make their person yawning or their person screaming. If they made their person yawning then they had to use cool colors and if they made their person screaming they had to use the warm colors. 

I then taught the children how to make a simple person and reminded them on using good craftsmanship skills when coloring. They did amazing!!! 

The last step was to use cool or warm colors of paint sticks to make lines going around the person. I'm still on a cart because of COVID so anything I can use that has less mess is what I'm using this year! 

We used Colorations Paint sticks. 

I love these!! They really enjoyed the paint sticks and were so quiet with this activity. This one is a keeper! 

Most of the students chose to do their person yawning. I'm not sure why!