KINDERGARTEN - FALL 2016
Buildings Inspired by Paul klee
After all of this talk about lines, how exciting is it to make something out of them! We used the edge of cardboard pieces to stamp lines in a way that we made shapes and those shapes made pictures! We looked at cityscape paintings by Paul Klee for inspiration to make our own city/town/neighborhood. The tall vertical paper added a new challenge. The chalk pastel allowed us to experiment with blending techniques and color mixing.
String Painting
You can paint with most any material. To go along with our unit on line, what better tool than a piece of yarn? Warning: painting with string can get pretty messy, but luckily these star artists followed directions to keep their fingers clean! This project build skills in following directions, fine motor and sensory discovery.
Flying Carpets
Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman shared lots of different kinds of lines and in such a fun way. We even used our bodies to recreate lines, students got very creative! I challenged everyone to make as many lines down their paper as possible. If you look close, you may discover that lines can be different colors and can turn into shapes and patters!
The carpets offered so much practice with scissors and glue, we are masters at it now! I love how some lines face different directions, some are all facing the same way, and some have patterns starting to emerge. With a little imagination, if you close your eyes and hold on tight, then you can fly anywhere you want!
The carpets offered so much practice with scissors and glue, we are masters at it now! I love how some lines face different directions, some are all facing the same way, and some have patterns starting to emerge. With a little imagination, if you close your eyes and hold on tight, then you can fly anywhere you want!
Expressive Pumpkin Collages
Mixing yellow and red paint makes.... orange! Students made orange, textured paper to later rip up and glue down onto their paper to make a pumkin sitting in a pumpkin patch. The added faces make them extra expressive!
Self-Portraits
Starting the year off with self-portraits was ambitious, but the students rose to the challenge. We had fun and certainly discovered key features of the face that make us uniquely us! We will be revisiting how to draw prortraits later this year so that we can compare how much we have learned.