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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Technology ideas needed

I just had a grant funded from Donor's Choose for 4 Samsung tablets. This will give me a total of 5 Netbooks and 4 tablets in my art room.

I am in the process of coming up with projects for my students to do with this plethora of technology that I will now have...... I can't wait!!!!

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions for projects that my students can do? I have had the Netbooks for awhile and have worked with these as a center, but now I think that I can actually do some amazing things with what I will have available.

Help!!! Please!!

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PreKinder Mother's Day

For Mother's Day this year, my PreKinder students did a very simple technology project. I started out by taking a picture of their hands forming a heart shape. I loaded all of these onto my computer.

I cut posterboard for each student to create a frame for their photo. I put a basket of random trinkets on every table (sequins, buttons, beads, foam shapes, etc) along with Ayleen's Tacky Glue.

While the students worked on decorating their picture frames, I called each child up to sit with me at the computer. I opened up the photo of their hands and had each student type their name in the center of their heart. This worked beautifully for my PreK students who spend the year learning the alphabet, how to write their names, etc.

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Technology in the art room

OK, fellow art educators! I am in the process of having all of my kindergarteners take photos of themselves and edit them on a website that was shown to me- Be Funky. Their self-portraits are turning out so great, that I want to get them published into a book for our school library.

The question for you is- where can I get this done fairly inexpensively? I don't want to spend a fortune since it will be coming out of my own pocket. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!!!

Has anyone done this already? How did you go about doing it?

I am also doing the same thing with my 5th graders, but I am going to take their photos, print them out and mount them on a canvas to leave at my school as a legacy project. Can printed photos be covered in Mod Podge? Or is there something else that I can use? Pin It