4th grade square 1 art pop art hearts

 4th grade square 1 art

I found this lesson on the Jamestown elementary blog. I'm not sure what they were teaching but I decided to tie it into Pop art. Andy Warhol has some great art featuring hearts and he even has a painting of an actual heart. Students are learning about the real heart in their classroom so I was so excited to find Andy Warhol's print of a human heart. Don't worry his heart doesn't look gross! It is very simplified. 

I thought I would have the students draw their own squares on the Square 1 Art paper but it was easy for me just to copy them on the copy machine. 

I provided students with a small piece of paper and reviewed with them on how to make a heart by folding their paper in half. I'm amazed with how many couldn't remember or didn't know how to make one! Students then traced their heart in each square of their paper. 

The next step was to draw various patterns in each section. I provided examples to give them inspiration but I encouraged them to come up with their own!  

Students could draw with their sharpies or draw with a pencil first and then trace them. My 4th graders then colored them with crayons and painted over them with liquid watercolors. They are beautiful! 

3rd grade self portraits

 I introduced the students to many of Van Gogh's and Frida Kahlo's self portraits and discussed the reason why artists create them. I provided a pattern for the faces of our self portraits. I think it helps the students get a good start. They then did all the rest.

Students used crayons and traced all their details with a black sharpie. We used crayons because we have more choices of skin colors. My kiddos did an amazing job! 

 

1st grade Robert Indiana Square 1 Art project

 1st Grade Robert Indiana Square 1 Art 

I found this art lesson on Instagram from scholtenart. He has some great ideas!

I went ahead and copied four boxes on the square 1 art paper for the kiddos. This makes life so much easier! 

On the square 1 art paper that is provided I printed four boxes on the copier. On this paper students used cool colored tempera paint and painted each box. Remind them to not paint over the line where their school and name appears!

On an 8" x 8" square piece of paper students painted the warm colors and then took a paint comb and scraped various lines through out the paint. 

This was day one. 

On the second day, I helped them lay out the stencils for LOVE (except the O) on the 8" x 8" paper. They traced the letters with a black crayon and then cut them out. 

While they were working on this I went around the room and painted their hand for the letter "O" of their art project. Students then glued the letters to their square 1 art paper. Since this is at the beginning of the year some of my kiddos had trouble cutting out the "E" but overall everyone did great!

 Mexican Mirrors 

Wondering what to do with all those CD's? Make Mexican mirrors! 

Students flatted out a paper plate and then glued a CD in the middle. 

They were instructed to make patterns all around the circle. 

Students then used markers to color in their shapes. 

The last two steps were to outline all the shapes with a black sharpie and then glue a circle that they had colored over the hole of the CD.

Great results!