Primary Colors:
There are three colors that are called Primary. Check out these videos and see if you can figure them out. These three colors help us make the secondary colors too. I challenge you to make a piece of art out of just the three primary colors! You can use whatever medium you have to create your primary color project. It's all up to you!
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Let's stay with the theme of Oriental Art....
Have you ever made an Oriental Fan?
Make sure you add your artwork to your paper BEFORE you fold it into a fan!
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Can you create your own Great Wave?
Use any kind of paper and materials to create your own great wave. Who/What might be in the wave? What would happen if that wave hit Waverly or Shell Rock??
The Great Wave off Kanagawa also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-eartist Hokusai. It was published sometime between 1830 and 1833[1] in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku sanjūrokkei?). It is Hokusai's most famous work, and one of the best recognized works of Japanese art in the world. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the prefecture of Kanagawa. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is, as the picture's title suggests, more likely to be a large rogue wave or okinami ("wave of the open sea").[2] As in all the prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions, and the mountain itself appears in the background.
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Insects are everywhere! Go outside and find an insect. With parents help, take a photo or find an image online to recreate the insect. You can use whatever materials are available at home! For example newspaper, magazines, cardboard, etc. Share your results when you complete your master piece! It is Earth week! Try out these DIY Suncatchers, also known as Cosmic Suncatchers. Watch the colors change as you add more color to the glue! It is an awesome project to do with recycling plastic lids. Check out the video and make your own Cosmic Suncatcher. Feel free to share your final masterpiece!
One of my favorite lessons to do with my 1st graders in the Spring is this castle one. We usually use big pieces of construction paper and make these awesome castles. We learn all of the different parts of a castle and then dream up one of our own. I usually teach you how a circle in real life actually looks like an oval when you draw it too, that is called "foreshortening". This is how you make the top of your turret look real. We think about a basketball hoop and what it looks like when we go to take the shot. But, our brains know that the orange rim is really a circle. Sometimes our brains and eyes fight each other, because our brain thinks it's smarter. But, our eyes actually SEE it differently. Check that out, then make a castle and send me a pic. I would love to see it!
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