Me, Myself, and My Initials

I had a lot of fun creating this project.  We had to take pictures or magazines and cut them into geometric shapes.  Than we cut out our initials on a piece of construction paper and placed it over the design of our pictures.  I used pictures I found while going through old photos and also used some old birthday cards I had received.
Extension: Students can use this white defining vocabulary words.  They could cut out pictures that describe the word and then write the definition on the back.  Students could quiz each other to prepare for quizzes.

Comic Strips

This piece of art was created for a lesson on creating comic strips.  I think this is a fun project that many 3rd graders would enjoy.  They like to use their imagination and create funny stories.  I found it to be a bit difficult for me but I based this off of a real life situation.  When I was young my mom, brother and I were going on a trip and my mom hit a deer but she actually thought it was a pig until after hitting it.  It was fun to try and make this into a comic.

For an extension: Students could create their own story behind the comic strip they chose to create and write a one page paper on it to share with the class.

Sand Art

This was a project on Native American sand art.  I thought it was neat project to do in order to incorporate other cultures into the art process.  First we had to come up with a Native American pattern of our choice and color it with crayon onto a piece of sandpaper.  Than, using an iron we had to iron the desing onto a piece of white paper to create a copy of it. 

For an extension for this project, students could discus the Native American culture and some other forms of art they use.  One idea would be learning how to do Native American bead work.  I think there is a lot of differnt creative idea you could use with this culture.

Scratch Art

For this project we took one of our sketches from out  sketch book and copied the drawing onto the scratch art paper. First, you had to use a pencil and color the whole back of your original sketch.  Thank you trace the outline of the original sketch onto the scratch are and use a stick to scratch out the design.  I thought this was fun and I ended up adding more objects to my sketch as I went to take up space on the picture. 

Extension: Students could use this project for almost anything.  I think it would be neat if students used this to create a story book.  Each student could create their own page of the story book and than at the end they could collaborate their drawings into one large book.

Working with Clay

In this lesson we were given the opportunity to experiment with clay.  We were to close our eyes and create something of our choice.  Than we were able to work with our eyes open to create whatever we wanted.  After the clay dried we were able to paint it creating our finished design.

Extension:  I think this would be fun to do after reading a story to the class.  After the story is finish the students can create their own alternate ending out of clay and present it to the class also describing the ending thye would choose.  They can use the clay to create the scene and the students can use pain or any other media to emphasize the ending they are trying to tell.

Collages

Healing: to get well or curing something

Love: to be passionate for another person

Listen: to hear what someone has to say; to give a ttention with the ear

Flamboyance: something that stands out

I thought this project was a lot of fun and I enjoy the rotation we kept doing with each others pieces. This adds creativity and individualism to the collages. I liked to see what others added to my beginning project and the ability to take away or add if I wanted to. This was a fun project that I think several students could enjoy.

Extension: As an extension you could use this art work to help with vocabulary words or to study for a test. Students could also use this as gifts. They could use the different Medias to describe the person they will be giving it to.

The Very Hungry Catapillar

After the teacher read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar I decided to create a butterfly using the scraps from our paper. I used one solid sheet for the background and used several different scraps to form the butterfly. The design of the butterfly is created out of shapes because I would use this artwork with students in kindergarten and first grade. They can learn about and use the different shapes while creating a butterfly designed just the way they would like it. Than we could use the shapes to do addition/subtraction and learn the number of sides different shapes have. This project could also be used in Science while discussing the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly. I had a lot of fun creating this piece and I think students would enjoy it as well.