yearbook contest 1st grade art lesson

Yearbook contest 1st grade art lesson 

Every year we have a contest to design the yearbook cover with my 1st graders. This year's theme was a school house. 

I provided card stock with the name of our school and year and then the students made their own designs. I did demonstrate how to draw a couple of school houses to give them some ideas. 

We used sharpies, colored pencils and crayons to design the covers. 

 Our school secretaries picked the winner. As you can see if was a hard choice!

Jasper Johns printmaking for kindergarten art

Jasper Johns Printmaking

Kindergarten art lessons can be a challenge. This lesson introduces a lot of techniques perfect for this age. 

On the first day I discussed warm and cool colors. Students then painted their 12" x 18" multi-media paper with tempera paint . We used only the warm colors. The last step was to  scrape various lines in the paint with paint combs.  

Students loved this!

On the second day, students stamped letters all over their paintings. 

I used sponges soaked with black paint to make it easier for stamping. 

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.

Jim Dine Radiating hearts kindergarten art lesson

Jim Dine Radiating Hearts

Here is another idea I found on Pinterest. I just changed it a bit to fit the needs of my kindergartners.

 I introduced the lesson with showing pictures of Jim Dine's heart paintings.  

I then showed the children how to make a paper heart out of construction paper. They glued the heart onto the center of a 9" x 9" white multi-media piece of paper. 

They added a highlight with oil pastels and then continued to add various lines around their heart. 

 This took one, 50 minute class period. 

 The next step was to paint watercolors over the oil pastels. 

Love these, especially for Valentine's Day! 

1st grade Robert Indiana Love paintings

Robert Indiana Love Paintings

Here is another idea I found on Pinterest. It wasn't linked to any blog so if you know where the original idea came from send me a message so I can give them credit. 

I started the lesson reviewing warm and cool colors as well as positive and negative spaces in art. 

I provided 12" x 9" multi-media paper with the words "LOVE" already printed on them. 

Students were instructed to draw various lines with black and white oil pastels on the letters. 

Students  painted the positive space (letters) using only the warm colors. We used crayola watercolor paints.

The last step was to paint the negative space with cool colors. 

Aren't they lovely?!