Big Mouth kindergarten and 1st grade art lesson

 1st Grade and Kindergarten Big Mouth 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! 

Aren't these so cute?! I'm still on a cart this year so I'm still coming up with messy free art projects for my students. This art project is easy and a good one for a substitute art teacher. I provided 8" x 11" paper with a box already drawn in the middle of the paper. You could have your students make the box if you wanted. There are many examples of these all over Pinterest so this is not my original idea. 

Here is a video of me teaching it.

Students drew a head around the box and then added eyes, tongue, teeth etc. I instructed the kiddos are how to fold the paper to make the mouth open and close. They really love these and had so much fun. I couldn't decide on which ones to post so here are lots of examples!! These are all from my kindergartners! Of course this was done in May and not August!! I actually taught this virtually during our COVID lockdown. 

Grant Wood kindergarten landscape art lesson

 Grant Wood Kindergarten landscape 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! 

For this lesson students learned about the America artist Grant Wood. We viewed his many landscapes (and of course his famous painting American Gothic) discussing foreground, midground and background. 

Fall Plowing by Grant Wood

I did a step by step tutorial on how to draw a landscape drawing to include a foreground, midground and background. 

Students were to draw various patterns in each section of their drawing. They could make up a pattern or include patterns of corn etc. 

My kindergarteners were very happy with the results! 

Here is a video of me teaching it. 

Kindergarten pattern suns

 Kindergarten Pattern Suns

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! 

For this lesson I provided drawing paper with a blank sun. 

I have actually taught this lesson virtually and had the kids trace a lid and draw triangles around the circle for a sun. It's a little tricky for kindergarteners so I decided to provide these patterns for them. 

Students were instructed to draw a face on the circle and then add various patterns on each triangle. 

The last steps were to trace the sun with a black crayon and color the sky. 

You can watch my demonstration here:

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 day art lesson for 1st graders

1st day art lesson for 1st graders

 My 1st graders have me for kindergarten art so this part was review. 

I came across this idea from http://owholmesartgallery.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-grade-artists.html

I just changed it a bit to fit the needs of my kiddos. We reviewed the various lines in art and students filled out this worksheet on lines. 

On the other side of the paper students were to create faces out of the circles and add various lines to create different hair styles. 

This lesson is easy and I think it would be ideal for a sub to teach if you needed something quick. 

Thanks to Jon Kristofer for this great idea on creating the faces.