HAHA! Hopping complimentary color plaid bunnies for Easter! This we learned about using complimentary colors such as green to read, purple to yello, and blue to orange along with using different width horizontal and vertical line to develop the plaid pattern. It was right around Easter time., so it was a perfect idea to introduce content while using a holiday to cover it all up.
    I can think of a few things that could be be done after creating this Easter bunny. A teacher can use this as an introduction to a mammal unit in science, horizontal and vertical lines along with 90 degree angles in math, history of Easter, fairtale of the Easter bunny. This project opens up a variety of extension activities.

Alrighty! here is some blind contour drawing. The idea is take a sheet of white contructions paper (or paper that wount just crimple up after gettting a little wet) then have the student take a crack at drawing an image on to the contruction paper without looking with a white crayon or pastel. once finishing the blind drawings the student wet the paper with water then fill in the paper with color, bringing the images out in white. really, really neat idea.
    An activity that would be sweet, would be to practice emotions through coloring. take the sheet of paper and divide it into 4 sections with black outlines. then in each box have the students write an emoiton in a certain box then have them draw what they think is angry lines  or happy lines. then have them do this for the other three boxes then color it so they get to see what they think emotion looks like in the form of a line.

Oh boy, bet you can't see the gorrilla! In this Art project we looked at the idea of making an image disappear and only being able to se the image through a special pair of specticals. The idea is the student draw a picture of an animal, person, place or something that is related to your content. Have them draw this in a light blue color. Then create layers of patters over the image using warm colors to distract the eye from the blue image. Have them use patterns that are similar to the image contours (if the image is a bunch of hearts, have the patterns be triangles and circles.). The looking through the special specticals that are red lensed the light blue jumps out of the picture.
   An activity that would be really awesome would be a scavenger hunt using these pictures as clues. can be realated to social studies and navigation. Have the clues lead to a certain point where they find a prize or another clue. In each clue have something that is realted to the content that the teacher is teaching during the specific unit. can be used as a year round thing if desired

 

This past week we worked with Van Gough's Starry Night and two activities we could use for upper elementary students. the top picture(which is side ways) is a finger painting using Van Gough type strokes while applying the paint to the paper. the idea was we needed a foreground, middle ground, and back ground in the painting. the tree is the foreground, grassy hills are middle, then the sunset turning to the night sky is the back ground.

the second project below it is much of the same thing except for we used tissue paper for a little bit of translucency. Then constructed some foreground by laying another cut out shape over it and then made it come alive with some pastels. Once we were finished constructing we glossed the whole thing to give it a nice shiny finished look.

With older kids I would consider making life size outlines of them selves and have them tissue paper what they would want on their out line.

5 Elements or Principles of design

 

This Picture was taken in a Colorado Evening, Contrast

 

Picture from a MAN MADE castle, Color

 

Hike up to Old Baldy in the Black Hills, Texture

 

Collage of pictures put together by Lindsey Varnell, Unity

 

Picture also taken from the Colorado Sky, Value

Extension activity for this would be to have a random bunch of pictures and have the student describe which element it is and why.

We will start from heel to toe. Drew a stick man jumping off a cliff into water because that is something I really enjoy doing in the summer time. Its the closest thing to flying I can get my hands on right now and its awesome. Next we see the lobster roll and peanut butter cups because I absolutely love to cook and eat all the time, love having a big get together and cook for any meal of the day. Just below we see a model of my fathers fish house that I wish i could be fishing in. I have some of my fondest and best memories out on a freezing cold lake. To the right we see some ivy dry, I used this because I'm very out doorsy in the summer time and I need a lot of ivy dry to cure all of it that I annually get. To the right you see a Northern Wrestling logo that I made one day, I put that on there because I had no intentions of going to college til I was called by college wrestling coaches wanting me to come wrestle for them. So I guess I could say that I would not be where I am now if it was not for wrestling. Above that is a drawing of a shoe, this is there because I'm a shoe shopper. got way to many. then on the toes are the five brothers of my family including me.


Extension activity that would work for this unit would learning about recycling and the student Carbon Foot Print. They can create a foot that represents things that effect the earth negatively or positively