Bad Hair Day Line Project : 1st and 2nd Grade
The first step begins with making a U-shape for the face. When I started out the project I did not tell the kids that it was going to be a person; I just had them draw the U-shape, then went into telling them how to do the lines coming out of it (which end up being the crazy hair!) I would suggest STRESSING that they cannot fill in the U-Shape at all so that they can make their face, if you are surprising them then you have to stress it even more because they don't know why they're doing that!
I love how even lessons that have step by step instruction can end up being so varied in results at this age.
Kindergarten Shape People
The Art of ED - Kindergarten Shape People
This link, like I said, has a video, and also a free printable of the shapes for the shape people.. You just can't go wrong!!
This incorporates shapes, lines, cutting, gluing and imagination! Very age appropriate for kindergarten! A+ lesson!
Russian Cathedral WaterColors: 5th and 6th Grade
"A Faithful Attempts'" Watercolor Mosque Paintings
This webpage gives great step by step ideas on how to do the process. It uses pencil sketches, drawings, sharpie markers. Then it uses washable markers to color in the areas and water and paintbrushes to spread out the marker pigment to give the look of watercolor!
This can turn out really cool if it works. I think I may have used too thick of paper because our markers were not spreading very well when the water was put on them. I would suggest testing out the markers and paper that you have to make sure they spread!
At the school I teach at, I only have 1 day in a week, and a lot of times it is every other week, so I try to do a new project every time. If I had a more consistent schedule I would make this project go over the process of 3-5 days. I created a PowerPoint about Shape that I included below, and it also has examples of the Russian Cathedrals in it as well!
I highly recommend trying these lessons!
-J