Tall Tales and Art- Summer 2015 (Day 2)

Day 2 of our summer art program-

The Book With No Pictures by BJ Novack

Many of the children had heard this book during the school year, most of the parents had not. It was still a big hit for everyone!

After reading the book, I pulled up a YouTube video of BJ Novack reading the book to a group of students at an elementary school. My reading of the book did not even come close!! 

Our focus today was on onomatopoeia words (i.e.- bang, crash, kaboom, etc). So before the children set off to work on their projects, I showed them another quick video of the old Batman TV series. This did a good job of showing the students onomatopoeia words used in the amazing fight scenes...

We were finally ready for our projects!

Project 1: Making Blurf

Ingredients for this incredibly popular project: Elmer's Glue, liquid starch and tempera paint (we used neon colors). The glue and starch are equal parts.

The children started out by mixing the tempera paint into the glue to get a nice consistent color. Then they added an equal amount of liquid starch and stirred it together, counting to 100 as they stirred. Once they had stirred it to a count of 100, they let it sit for a count of 300, letting the 2 liquids combine. Then they were able to pick the "Blurf" or silly putty, up and play with it. We had children coming back and making 3 and 4 different batches of this. They had blast!

Project 2: Onomatopoeia comic book words

The students ripped pages out of dictionaries that I had found at Dollar Tree and glued them down for the background of their word.

I gave them letter stencils to use for their word, which they traced with pencil. 

They added color with tempera paint and scraps of colored paper.

Voila!

Project 3: Word Clouds

Yesterday, we had asked the parents to bring their laptops, iPads, tablets, etc with them today for this project. We had given them websites and apps that we would be using for this project:

Laptops- wordle.com

iPads- CloudArt and ABCYa!

Tablets- Wordsalad

The children typed in their "sound" words and created a very basic word cloud. We didn't do any printing, however, they saved them so they could be printed out at home.

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Tall Tales and Art- Summer 2015 (Day 1)

Today was our first day of our summer Tall Tales and Art program. This is a 6 day, 2 hours a day, summer art program that we have at our district art museum every year.

Today's book was Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin.

As in previous years, the children gather on the floor for the story, while the parents have the chairs in the back. A lot of the students had already heard this story, but they had no problem hearing it again. It was a new experience for many of the parents.

After reading the book, I gave a quick explanation of the 3 projects that would be going on and then the students were off!

One room was handprint dragons being made. The students painted their hands with tempera paint (we started with warm colors, but pulled out other colors as the students requested them) and then created the shape of a dragon, using their handprints. They added teeth with scraps of paper and then glued on googly eyes.

 Another room had dragon collages. The students were shown how to fold a piece of paper in half and draw 1/2 of the dragon's head. When this was cut out, they had the entire dragon head (symmetry). They used construction paper scraps, scissors, glue, crayons and oil pastels to decorate their dragons.

The last room had dragon eggs. This was the hit of the day!! Each child received a styrofoam egg and 2 boxes of tacks. The tacks were placed into a piece of corrugated cardboard and then painted with metallic acrylic paint. Due to time constraints, the paint was not completely dry when they started placing the tacks in the eggs. Some students chose to take the tacks home still in the cardboard and place them in the egg when they got home.

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1st Saturdays at the Altharetta Yeargin Museum

This Saturday's theme was collage.

We worked on a project that I found on Pinterest and adapted for small children: Collage Tree.

I had a surplus of 8x10 canvasses that I had the children (I had enough canvasses that the parents were able to make their own, too) paint with acrylic paint.

We set out a couple of blow dryers for them to dry this layer (the class is only an hour, so sometimes we need to speed up the process).

Then they used another color of acrylic to paint a tree.

They decorated their trees with an assortment of materials: scrapbook paper, feathers, buttons, seashells, magazines (cutting words/pictures out to describe themselves).

We ended up with some amazing end results!

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