Arts For Youth Camp

For the past six weeks I have been teaching visual arts to the 7 - 12 year olds at a local arts camp. The campers made tons of art!! Here are just a small sample of the lessons I did.

Jackson Pollock Day

My 3rd graders have been working hard all year and I thought I would reward them with a Jackson Pollock Day of splatting paint on painted backgrounds. They used sticks, forks and objects we found in  the room. They had so much fun and learned about another Modern Artist.

Cubist Still-Life

As the years coming to an end I've been thinking about all the lessons I have done. My favorite lesson has to be the Romero Britto Cubist Still Lifes the 4th grade created. This lesson had a lot packed in. They experimented with color mixing, applying contrast with different color combinations, observational drawing and using pattern.

4th Grade Art & Music Show

Rug Collages

I did this lesson with the 1st and 2nd grade. We talked alot about different lines and creating pattern. They were a lot of work for the students but they came out great.

Kindergarten Butterflies

Kimmy Cantrell Faces

The students love working with clay! We talked about Picasso's and Cantrells faces and applying the additive and subtractive methods. After they were fired they used oil pastels and dipped the "rearranged faces" into watered down black India ink. I love the way they came out! I found this lesson elsewhere online - so glad I did! Check out Kimmy Cantrells website.

Old King Cole

Old King Cole Was a Merry Old Soul, and a Merry Old Soul Was He

He Called For a Pipe, In the Middle of the Night

And He Called for His Fiddlers Three.

Every Fine Fiddler Had a Fiddle

And a Very Fine Fiddle Had He

Oh theres None so Rare, As He Can Comapre

With King Cole and His Fiddler Three.

My Kindergarten students have been doing a fabulous job in Art! The get so excited over the Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhyme lessons. We read Old King Cole and created King/Queen Self Portraits. In the previous year during my student teaching the students made watercolor-resist castles. Then we added small "If I were king and Queen" people and mythological creatures. They loved this lesson! We finished the lesson with some creative writing. They students had to complete the sentence"If I were a King or Queen I would have my subjects_________________" There were some fun responses!