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Creative skills need practice! Try these tiles to stay sharp. Screenshot is on left, click the Symbaloo Button above to get site links.
Creative skills need practice! Try these tiles to stay sharp. Screenshot is on left, click the Symbaloo Button above to get site links.
The school year is almost here, but I wanted to put a few more ideas out to keep the creativity flowing:
Make a folded paper bracelet: https://picklebums.com/make-folded-paper-bracelets/
Make an owl puppet: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/craft-ideas/how-to/g1402/owl-craft/
Salt dough ornaments are fun no matter the season: https://www.gathered.how/arts-crafts/how-to-make-salt-dough/
Make your own play dough: https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/support-for-parents/things-to-do-with-your-child/messy-play/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyrPAndWy6AIVhbHtCh35-gyuEAAYASAAEgJuwfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Knit with a paper towel or toilet paper tube: https://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-and-Easy-DIY-French-Knitter/
And finally, draw/doodle/sketch! Whatever pops in your head. Have fun with lines: https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/10-exercises-for-confident-lines-and-accurate-hatching
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Hi everyone! As I pushed out to all my students last month in Google Classroom Stream, I am putting some creative activities on this website each month. Also, I am designing a whole new, instructional website for the upcoming school … Continue reading
My Symbaloo at the top of the webpage is a great place to find tons of activities and instructions to create with, but I found some more.
These additional resources and ideas will keep you busy drawing, crafting, building, and CREATING!!
(Note that the first one takes you to a hyperdoc, where each activity has it’s own link)
Jerry’s Art-a-Rama Free Drawing Videos
Make Paper Coil Baskets
Our first three weeks online, 3rd grade researched artists, sketched, then colored stamp designs based upon that artist and their work. Then, they used the scribble/erase method to build “Imaginary Animal” drawings (week 4). In Week 5, the last week in April, students made “Animals from Weird Stuff”!
Our first three weeks online in 4th grade students used PIXLRX (a free photo editing tool that they had used in class) to edit a landscape photo, draw from that photo, then try another PIXLR photo editing. Then, they turned an ordinary object into the inspiration for “From Ordinary to Extraordinary 1” drawings (week 4). In Week 5, the last week in April, students made portraits from objects (or food) that they found at home “From Ordinary to Extraordinary 2”.
Our first two weeks online in 5th grade students used Adobe Spark (a free digital art tool that they had used in class) to make a landscape collage, then draw from that collage. Then, they learned about graffiti, practiced their name in graffiti (week three), and made a graffiti wall image with their name and two tags that represented them (week four). Our last week in April, students took a virtual field trip to the Graffiti Museum in Miami, Florida (their reflections are posting in the first week of May).
Firstly, I hope that everyone stays safe and healthy during this time!!! (I already miss everyone)…I will be posting online instruction in Art via Google Classroom: each Art class has their own Google Classroom (based on their homeroom in 3rd & 4th grades, and what day/time you have Art in fifth grade). Almost all of you have already joined, so we are ready!
These Art Google Classrooms will have grade-level activities, lessons, instruction and feedback. This will start on Monday, March 30th, the date school resumes online after break.
Until then, students could try one of my Symbaloo activities (see the top of my webpage), or try a little Zentangle (video below), or even something from the drawing prompt list at the bottom of “March News” post. (These are just suggestions to keep your creative skills going, not required).
We did get a lot done in March, though! Third grade artists completed patterned “Name Designs” (which were sent home), and used bilateral symmetry to draw insects. Fourth grade artists learned about “Celtic knots” (I put a video for a simple version below), and how to draw them using rulers. Fifth grade artists finished their three-dimensional “Radial Art” paper pieces (also sent home), and made clay pots the last week of school (except for Friday) using pinch and coil construction methods. (I hope to fire these once school reopens.)
See you online March 30th, 2020!!!
WeavingMovie from L. Girbino on Vimeo.
Shading Shapes into Forms from L. Girbino on Vimeo.
DrawingHands from L. Girbino on Vimeo.