Oilpastell Butterfl

Description: For this lesson we created a butterfly using oil pastells and watercolors. We focused on using cool colors and warm colors togheter. Once we outlined the butterfly wing we added details. After the details were added we used a Sharpie to outline everything. Then we chose to other use cool or warm colors for the inside of the butterfly. I chose to use the cool colors green and blue. I used different shades of blue and green to give it an fading effect. Once I used the cool colrs I went in with black to fill in the rest of the white space. Once everything was colored we used the opposite colors for the background. For me I had to use warm colors. I used red, orange, and yellow water colors to create the warm colored background. 

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Extension Activity: An extention activity for this would be to give students a spacific kind of butterfuly to duplicate in their project. This could go along with a science activity of talking about the stages of butterfies and the different kinds of butterflies.  

Clay Balanced Plate

Description: This lesson was centered around a balanced plate when it comes to eating. A good balanced plate has fruit, vegtables, grain, dairy, and protein. Each student was given a ball of clay and prepred it by throwing it on the table to release the air bubbles and then rolling it out. Once the clay was rolled out we chose three foods to create. I chose a strawberry (fruit), cucumber (vegetable), and bread (grain). We traced it out into the clay and the cut it out. Once it was cut out we used water to help mold it into the shape wanted and helped make it look nice. Then we let the clay dry a little bit before painting. After it was dry I painted each piece to make it look realistic. 

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Extension Activity: If I were to do an extention activity with this I would have student create all five parts of a balanced plate and create a plate to put their food on. This would help students remember what they should have on their plates for each meal. 

The Seasons

Description: To start the lesson we talked about different seasons and what makes them different. After talking about the seasons we took one of the sheets of paper and drew two trees on it. Once we had the trees drawn we chose two of the four seasons. I chose fall and spring. I colored the trees to show the differnt season and added different characteristics to symobliz the season. For fall I chose red, orange, and brown leaves for the tree and added a pile of leaves, leaves falling from the tree, and pumkins. For spring I chose three shapes of green leaves for the tree and added a bunny, a sun, and flowers. Once all the coloring was done I cut my pictures into one inch strips. Then I gluedthem onto another sheet of paper and accordion folded it. This allows people to look at the pictue from different angles and reveal the two different seasons. 

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Extension Activity: An extension activity for this lesson would be to do this activity when the class is talking about weather and seasons. This helps students understand the differences between the seasons and  different types of weather. This would end up being a science and art activity. 

Whoville - Paper Craft

Description: This lesson was the one I taught with my partenr Hailey. We created a lesson that was insplired by Whoville from Dr. Seuss. We also tied in an artist that was known for his patterned work. Students created a crazy Whoville town with different folds and designs. We taught students four different folds (roll, plette, loop, and curl). Students were requried to have at least two of the four folds and four patterns in their final project. Once all students were done with their project we placed them all on the white board to show the big down of Whoville. This showed students what it would look like if it was displayed in the hallways of the school. 

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Extension Activity: An extention activity I would do would be to have students to do this lesson during Christmas. Students would use green and red pices of paper to create a Chirsmtas themed Whoville. The teacher would also read How the Grinch Stole Christmas or watch the movie. 

Print Making

Description: This lesson was about creating different prints using different colors, textures, and materials. It was fun getting to experiment with stencils, stamps, and vegtables to create designs within my prints. I chose to use gold, sage green, emerald green, and blue for my paint colors. I thought all these colors complimented each other very well and ended up creating three great prints. After I was done creating the prints I cut them out and put them onto a pices of paper to create a "gallery." Then we were also required to add two to three sentences expaling what we used and why.

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Extension Activity: For an extension acitivity I would have students add things that show their personalilties and can tell others about them. For example, if they are into sports they can add in their jersey number or if they are into math they can add in different math symbols. This can help students get to know eachother or be used as a intduction activity at the beginning of the school year. 

Watercolor Galaxy

Description: For this lesson we started off with trying six different watercolor techniques that we could later use in our final project. My six techniques are on the left side of the picutre. This was fun to get to experiment and test out different techniques that we could use. Once we were done with the test page we started on our final project. I chose to do a blue and purple sky/background with black mountians at the bottom. I also added stars in the sky. I ended up using five of the six techniques to give it a good variety. 

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Extension Activity: If I were to do an extention activity I would have students create a landscape based of a place they have traveled or seen. This would allow students to express what they have experinced in their life and also create something that may be meaningful to them. 

Forced Perspective

Description: This lesson started out with drawing a little dot in the center of the paper. Then drawing four squares or rectangles on each side of the dot. Once all eight squares or rectangles were drawn we used rules to connect the corneres of the shapes to the dot. This gives the illustion of it coming off the page. Then we added different designs onto the top parts of the shapes. After that we used oil pastells for the color. We needed to use two colors that were similar to eachother to give it the illusion that the color is fading. 

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Extension Activity: If I were do add onto this activity I would have students add other shapes like triangles, pentagons, circles, etc. This could be made into a fun and detialed math lesson. The teacher could dispaly the porjects in the hallway or in the classroom to show off their math and art skills.