Well, I have been neck deep in residencies at several schools but I finally have reached spring vacation time.
Here is a new spring project. The inspiration came off of pintrest but there is no link just a picture. Thank-you whoever you are! I have changed it up and tested it with 2 classes of kinders.
They turned out great so I thought I would pass it on to you.
MATERIALS REQUIRED:
- blue paper or you can paint some white paper blue
- rectangle of white paper about 4x6
- brown, black, white, yellow, green, and orange paint. I used acrylic but you can use liquid tempera.
- pencil and wooden skewer
- small piece of corrugated cardboard
- glue
- googly eyes
- coloured feathers
- sponges
- paintbrush
PROCEDURE:
At school we used blue construction paper but it also looks great on painted blue paper.
I gave the students some black and brown paint and had them paint the 4"x6" piece of paper.
Using a pencil and end of a skewer I had them stamp dots all over the paper with white paint.
Put the 4"x6" paper aside to dry. With the leftover white paint take a small piece of sponge and sponge on a few clouds on the blue paper.
With a piece of corrugated cardboard dipped in green paint have the kids stamp on some grass.
When the spotted paper is dry have the kids turn it over and draw a line from one corner to the other making a diagonal.
Have them cut on this line.
Glue one of the pieces on the paper just above the grass. This is the body of the mother hen.
Cut a wing out of the other piece of paper.
Glue into place on the body of the mother hen.
I gave each group of kids 2 sponges. 1 large circle and 1 smaller one. These are they same sponges I use for stamping snowman.
The kids got to make 2 chicks but here I only added one. Stamp on the body and the head.
Using a triangular piece of sponge and orange paint we stamped on the beaks.
Using a small paintbrush and that same orange paint we painted on some chicken legs.
Glue on the googly eyes and then add a couple of feathers to the top of the mother hen's head. I cut the ends off so they would fit better.
That's it.
Here is some more recent student work.
Some of the spring trees done by kindergarten.
A few of Grade 4's Inuit whales.
and some of their mixed media owls.
Grade 3's Peruvian masks. We made our pieces from air dry clay so a bit different from the original post.
The work was just amazing and I can't show it all. I think it was a record for me as well :
1 month, 702 students, 27 classes, and 37 different projects by the time I was all done.
I'm off to paint in Maui and will hopefully have some great photos for you next time.
Take care everyone and Happy Easter!
Gail
Dear Gail,
ReplyDeleteI just love your ideas! such wonderful things to make with the pupils.
Greetings from Germany .-)