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.